{"id":1698,"date":"2012-01-20T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/college.web.unc.edu\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:25:41","slug":"ramblersball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"Red Clay Ramblers to be honored at PlayMakers Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Award-winning, North Carolina music legends The Red Clay Ramblers will receive the PlayMakers Distinguished Achievement Award on Feb. 11 at the 24rd annual PlayMakers Ball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The ball, held at the historic Carolina Inn, is the annual fundraising celebration for PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. Proceeds from the event support PlayMakers\u2019 artistic and educational programming.<\/p>\n

The ball, with the theme \u201cDiamond and Denim Hoedown,\u201d will feature an award ceremony followed by dining and dancing to the music of the Bill Bolen Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Now in their 40th year, The Red Clay Ramblers are a string band whose repertoire reflects their roots in old-time mountain music, as well as country, rock, New Orleans, bluegrass, gospel and the American musical. The band members are Clay Buckner, Chris Frank, Rob Ladd and 1970 UNC alumni Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick. Simpson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC.<\/p>\n

They have toured extensively in North America and Europe, as well as Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. The Ramblers have been guests on Garrison Keillor\u2019s \u201cA Prairie Home Companion,\u201d appeared with Jay Leno on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d and with Harry Smith on \u201cCBS This Morning.\u201d They appeared as the onstage band during PlayMakers\u2019 April 2010 production of \u201cBig River.\u201d Herrick also created music for two productions helmed by PlayMakers producing artistic director Joe Haj: PlayMakers\u2019 2008 season-opener \u201cPericles\u201d and \u201cHamlet\u201d (2010) at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The Ramblers\u2019 long association with music and theater includes the original New York productions of \u201cDiamond Studs\u201d (1975) and Sam Shepard\u2019s \u201cA Lie of the Mind\u201d (1985). In 1988, they scored Shepard\u2019s film \u201cFar North,\u201d and they performed and appeared in his second feature, \u201cSilent Tongue\u201d (1994). In 1993, Broadway hit \u201cFool Moon\u201d earned The Ramblers their second Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play. They returned to Broadway twice more (1995, 1998) and received a special Tony Award in 1999. The Ramblers also created the shows \u201cKudzu: A Southern Musical\u201d and \u201cLone Star Love: the Merry Wives of Windsor, Texas,\u201d as well as ballets \u201cRamblin\u2019 Suite\u201d (Atlanta Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet) and \u201cCarolina Jamboree\u201d (Carolina Ballet).<\/p>\n

Old North State,\u201d their newest CD, was released in October 2009.\u00a0 The New York Times says The Ramblers are \u201ca fantasy roadhouse band from a vanished rural America \u2014 perfection!\u201d\u00a0 Playwright Shepard calls them simply \u201ca great American band.\u201d<\/p>\n

Past PlayMakers award honorees include actors David Hyde Pierce, Eva Marie Saint, Faye Dunaway, Louise Fletcher and Billy Crudup, as well as New York Times critic Frank Rich, costume designer William Ivey Long, director Gene Saks and Broadway composer\/lyricist Richard Adler.<\/p>\n

Ball guests will enjoy a gourmet menu created by Carolina Inn Executive Chef Jim Reale in rooms decorated by McKay Coble, a resident scenic and costume designer with PlayMakers.<\/p>\n

For tickets to the ball, contact Lenore Field at (919) 452-8417 or lfield@email.unc.edu<\/a>. Organizations interested in contributing to the ball should contact Stacy Payne at (919) 962-4846 or shpayne@email.unc.edu<\/a>. Tables are available for $5,000; each table seats 10 people. Single tickets are $500.<\/p>\n

Web site:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.playmakersrep.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Award-winning, North Carolina music legends The Red Clay Ramblers will receive the PlayMakers Distinguished Achievement Award on Feb. 11 at the 24rd annual PlayMakers Ball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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