The Ragas Report

Tales of adventure from the exciting lives of Matt and Traci Ragas

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Matt, Traci, and Clark Ragas live in Chicago.

Matt is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, though he called the Sunshine State home for over a decade before moving to Chicago. Traci hails from St. Petersburg, Florida and has never lived more than 45 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.

Clark originally hails from - well, we aren't totally sure. We're just blessed to have him in our family. He's a "rescue dog" as we say. :)

Here is where you can learn all about our new life in the big city.

Bluegrass at CSO

A few weekends ago we saw bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys perform at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The opening act was Cherryholmes. Great show all around in a historic and beautiful building. CSO seems to do a nice job mixing up their programming and we plan to check out "A Night in Treme," narrated by Wendell Pierce of HBO's Treme, next month at CSO.

Stanley's performance of "O (Oh) Death" put a chill up our spine. You might remember it from O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Posted by Matt Ragas