North Carolina's Tony Award-winning String Band
"A great American band!" -- Sam Shepard "Wonderful!" -- Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion "The house band of North Carolina!" -- Martin Anderson, WNCW
PlayMakers Repertory Company has a hit with 'Big River,' the Tony Award-winning musical based on Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn.' Performances have been added and are selling out. The show's built-in appeal stems from the universal popularity of Twain's comically observant novel and the irresistible twang of Roger Miller's songs. With this production's inclusion of the beloved Red Clay Ramblers, and a cast and crew of PlayMakers' best, anticipation was already high. Happily, the production fulfills its promise." --The News & Observer, April 12th, 2011
“A musical group whose eclectic repertory is that of a fantasy roadhouse band from a vanished rural America. Bluegrass, New Orleans, classical folk and gospel sounds emerge in nutty profusion from these talented instrumentalists and singers, whose music making is perfection.” -- The New York Times
"The Red Clay Ramblers were formed as a traditional string band in North Carolina in 1972 but soon brought a theatrical sensibility to their music-making, teaming up with Sam Shepard for his Off Broadway play 'A Lie of the Mind' in the eighties and scoring a couple of his films. The Ramblers earned a special Tony in the nineties for their collaboration with Bill Irwin and David Shiner on 'Fool Moon,' and continue to invest their country with a little neon." -- The New Yorker, June 28th, 2010
