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Date
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 8:00PM
Name
Ry Cooder - Sharon White - Ricky Skaggs
Description
Tickets: $43-78*
Prices include Facility Fee
Event Sponsors:
Fredric E. Steck
Marilyn and Dick Mazess
UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents
An Historic Collaboration
Santa Barbara Debut
Ry Cooder - Sharon White - Ricky Skaggs
Roots Series
“In Ry Cooder’s hands, the guitar becomes a time machine… he has been a virtuoso in a host of guitar styles going back to the most primal bottleneck blues, country, vintage jazz, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, Bahamian folk music and countless other styles.” Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
“Skaggs and his band are just about the best bluegrass has to offer.” The Seattle Times
In a most exceptional pairing, master multi-instrumentalists Ry Cooder and Ricky Skaggs will come together on stage to deliver a revelatory program of blues, gospel and bluegrass. They are joined by Skaggs’ wife Sharon White (The Whites), one of the purest voices in country music, Joachim Cooder on drums and Mark Fain on bass. With countless accolades between them, it was a Grammy Awards show many years ago that connected Cooder and Skaggs in their mutual admiration and desire to collaborate. “Cooder-White-Skaggs is the legacy express, or I’ll eat a bug,” quipped Cooder. “You are going to hear four-part singing from the heart, the finest and best instrumental activity in the land, songs you know and love… Now who’s happy?”
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