. . . about Beegie Adair

Beegie’s piano work is very much like Sinatra’s vocal style - finely crafted, elegantly non-chalant, subtle yet interesting, and always swinging.
--Jazz and Blues News

Pianist Beegie Adair will take you back to the days when songs were judged by the beauty of the melody.
--JazzReview.com

. . . about Ron Short

Ron Short is responsible for the music, and these songs--backed by guitar, banjo, harmonica, fiddle--are wonderfully rich evocations of period, mood, personality. They range from foot stompin' mountain tunes to plaintive ballads and are sung superbly. Indeed, the music alone is worth the price of a ticket.
--San Francisco Chronicle

Roadside Theater may be geographically from a remote region of America, but spiritually this company exposes the territory of the human heart. Ron Short's songs sound as if they were composed by a rural Bruce Springsteen.
--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

. . . about Roadside Theater

No one missed a word of passion, humor, or narration. [Roadside Theater] is marvelously resourceful as an ensemble.
--Washington Post

Roadside Theater is a traveling cultural treasure--a whimsical, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining celebration of tales and songs based on regional stories and music handed down through generations of farmers and miners of the Central Appalachian mountains.
--Arcata (California) Times-Standard

What emerges . . . is a portrait of Americans in a locale, Appalachia, that's more rich and immediate than you're likely to read in any social history.
--National Public Radio

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