Ricky Skaggs struck his first chords on a mandolin over 50 years ago and with Kentucky Thunder, his band of virtuoso pickers, he leads the revival in roots music.
McCallum Theatre
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Ricky Skaggs struck his first chords on a mandolin over 50 years ago and with Kentucky Thunder, his band of virtuoso pickers, he leads the revival in roots music.
McCallum Theatre
Why see Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder?
Country star Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder
Country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs is a singer as well as master of instruments including the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, mandocaster and banjo. The Kentucky born musician started his lifelong relationship with music at the young age of five, since then he has made a name for himself as one of the best country musicians out there and has been inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Over the course of his career, Ricky has received 15 Grammy Awards including Best Bluegrass Album five times and Best Country Instrumental Performance three times.