Ranky Tanky, a five-piece band from Charleston, S.C., takes Gullah music and culture from African-American communities in the Low Country region of South Carolina and adds chiming high-life guitars, ...

How do you get from a start-up musical experiment with a Gullah theme to No. 1 on the Billboard jazz charts? For the Charleston-based band Ranky Tanky, which makes its Spoleto Festival USA debut on ...

Ranky Tanky released their eponymous debut on Oct. 20th, 2017. By December of that year, the group had been been profiled on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and their album soared to the #1 position ...

A Ranky Tanky concert provides two outcomes. One being what you’d expect from a concert: You dance, you’re entertained, you leave the venue musically satisfied. The other outcome appeals to music fans ...

Charleston Gullah group Ranky Tanky has been climbing all the music charts, reaching No. 4 on iTunes and in the top 10 on Amazon back in October right after their first full-length release. Now, ...

Grammy-winning quintet Ranky Tanky will share music that evolved from the Gullah slave culture of the southeastern Sea Islands on Oct. 17 at Dominican University’s Lund Auditorium. “Whatever we can do ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ranky Tanky includes (l-r) trumpet player Charlton Singleton, bass player Kevin Hamilton, singer ...

South Carolina band Ranky Tanky is on a mission to revive and celebrate Gullah music and culture, which originated among descendants of West African slaves in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The ...

With the release of Ranky Tanky’s 2017 self-named debut album, the South Carolina band brought welcome attention to Gullah culture, which continues to thrive in a resilient archipelago of coastal ...

How a centuries-old musical tradition inspired the Billboard-topping jazz hits of Ranky Tanky. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds ...

In 2017, three members of Ranky Tanky, a band that takes inspiration from the Gullah people, performed songs from their self-titled debut album.... Ranky Tanky Builds On The Music And Culture Of Slave ...

Lively jazz tones drifted through the cool March air to a crowd bundled in jackets and blankets outside The Pines Theater enjoying Lufkin’s second concert under the stars Thursday night. Ranky Tanky, ...