North Carolina's Tony Award-winning String Band

North Carolina State Toast Sheet Music Cover

"Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!...the Red Clay Ramblers are authentic... they play like angels auditioning for Gabriel." -- The New York Times


"A great American band!" --Sam Shepard

"Wonderful!" --Garrison Keillor

"Quintuple threats! Calling the members of the Red Clay Ramblers triple-threats is to sell them a couple threats short. First and foremost, there's the group's genre- and decade-hopping live performances, and then the plays they write and star in, the collaborations and the soundtrack work, not to mention books." --Rick Cornell, Independent Weekly

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New RCR Album!

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Old North State - The Red Clay Ramblers

In stock and shipping, an all new studio recording of songs and tunes with a Tar Heel taste!

Old North State

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Latest Press on OLD NORTH STATE

Please read here a few kind words from Jack Betts of the Charlotte Observer about our "statriotic" CD:

and from David Menconi of the News & Observer

and from Bernie Reeves of Metro NC

and from Robert Kelly-Goss of The Daily Advance

and here a nice comment from Andrew Ritchey in the Independent Weekly

Listen to our performance on STATE OF THINGS, WUNC FM (Oct 23, 2009):

 

From the Archives: RCR in Syria, 1992

Syria Times, 1992

"'Music is not a product, but a process, the beginning of a process. It is constantly renewall. It starns the test as art by giving rise to traditions,' says Blard Simpson, member of the US musical band Red Clay ramblers currently visiting Syria at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture..." - Syria Times

There are no typos in that quote, believe it or not, from the english language Syria Times, from an interview Bland did during our trip there for the State Department in 1992 (we used to send bluegrass and jazz over "there", instead of boys and bombs). He is also quoted saying our music was "mainly built on the charm and deep affection of a country or say mountain music, to which art is always graded in the first place.", and listed Tommy thusly: Tomay Thopson Cleader (banjo). Ha! Tommy was henceforth "the Cleader" (I don't think we realized it should have been "Mr. Cleader"!).

We traversed Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Jordan and Egypt on the tour, a fabulous time, we were ambassadors and celebrities for six great weeks.  Click here for a pdf of the entire article.

 

 

Upcoming Shows

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Please join us in concert at one of these upcoming events in 2010-2011; also noted are events of individual Red Clay Ramblers in other settings:

March 12th: The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: Boykin Cultural Center, Wilson, NC (7:30 PM)

March 17th:  Shamrockers (Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Jack Herrick and Rob Ladd), Pittsboro General Store, Pittsboro, NC (7:30 pm); Late Show at the Cavern Tavern, Chapel Hill, NC

March 26th-April 3rd:  Bland Simpson in  Coastal Cohorts Concerts Maguire Theatre, Elizabeth City, NC (3/26); Roanoke Island Festival Park, Manteo, NC (3/27); Joslyn Hall, Morehead City, NC (4/2-3)

April 21st–June 6th:  Jack Herrick performs his original score in a production of HAMLET, Folger Shakespeare Library Theatre, Washington, D.C.

June 15th:   Bland Simpson in a Coastal Cohorts Concert for the Coastal Society's national convention, Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC

July 7-11th:    The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: Vancouver Island Music Festival, Vancouver Island, BC

July 24th:    The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: NC Museum of Art Amphitheatre, Raleigh,NC

Oct. 15-17th:    The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: LEAF Festival, Black Mountain, NC

Oct. 22nd:    The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: Turnage Theater, Washington, NC

Oct. 23rd:     The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: First Flight Performing Arts, Kill Devil Hills, NC

Nov 5th:  The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC

Nov 6th:  The Red Clay Ramblers in Concert: Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC

 



APRIL 6-24, 2011: The Red Clay Ramblers will appear in PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of the Roger Miller-William Hauptman musical BIG RIVER: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Paul Green Theatre, UNC Chapel Hill >> Click for more information <<

 

Last Updated on Monday, 08 March 2010 20:19
 

With Our Compliments, Sheet Music for "The North Carolina State Toast"

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NC State Toast - The Red Clay Ramblers

Here's to the land of the long leaf pine, the summer land where the sun doth shine...
 

As sung by the Red Clay Ramblers on the all-new Old North State album, please download and enoy this "gift of music", a lovely musicalized setting of our beloved state toast, penned by our own Jack Herrick and Bland Simpson. Click here to download, print, and take right to your parlor after supper, raise a glass and your voice in song!

 

 

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