Ron Short
For the past thirty years Ron Short, a native of the Appalachian Mountains of Dickenson County, has been the creative force behind Roadside Theater, an internationally known touring theatre based on the history and lives of Appalachian people.
- Appalachian Songster
- Big Stone Gap, Virginia
For the past thirty years Ron Short, a native of the Appalachian Mountains of Dickenson County, has been the creative force behind Roadside Theater, an internationally known touring theatre based on the history and lives of Appalachian people. He has performed in eighteen Roadside touring productions, and has written the scripts and musical scores for a dozen musical plays that the company has toured across the United States and in Europe. His music is grounded but unique—influenced by the power of a cappella Old Regular Baptist, lined-out hymns, and the timelessness of the Scots-Irish fiddle tunes and frailed banjo styles of central Appalachia. Short has recorded and produced many albums of music and story (Wings to Fly, Cities of Gold, Singing, and Mountain Tales and Music), and most recently Appalachia: Music From Home, a collection of music to accompany the award-winning PBS series Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People. But it is live performance that Ron truly loves, and where all the elements of culture, story, and music come together.
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