The Annual Banquet, sponsored by Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, will feature music and entertainment by the Red Clay Ramblers!

Now in their 27th year, the Red Clay Ramblers are a North Carolina String-band whose repertoire reflects their roots in old-time mountain music, as well as country, rock, Dixieland, bluegrass, gospel, and the American musical.

In 1993, the Irwin-Shiner-Ramblers hit Fool Moon on Broadway earned the ramblers their second Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play and received a Special Tony Award at the Tony Ceremonies, Gershwin Theater, New York on June 6th 1999.

They have toured extensively in North America and in Europe, and have made four USIA concert tours to eastern Europe, sub-Sahara Africa, North Africa and the Middle East. More recently, the Ramblers developed Kudzu: A Southern Musical, in collaboration with Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette.

We look forward to hearing them perform at the Annual Banquet of the 1999 Greening of Industry Network Conference!

The Red Clay Ramblers…provide an eclectic array of traditional string band tunes, a cappella gospel and goofy ditties on subjects ranging from opera to pyramids that suit Shiner and Irwin's art like jelly does peanut better. But these guys truly earn their keep when called upon to act as visual or aural foil for these clowns. The give and take between them, whether it's a collective double take or a perfectly timed sound effect, is a thrill to behold.

- Pamela Sommers, The Washington Post, 3/2/99

Though they're a walking encyclopedia of Americana, the ramblers never forget they're up there to entertain…it's a musical potpourri plucked from the mind set of 'All Things Considered' and delivered with a tongue-in-cheek twang.

- Greensboro (NC) News & Record