Read the full article by Chris Woodard at Sacramento News & Review and RAM’S New Times Magazine
Before Beau Ryder Davis ever stepped onto a Sacramento stage, he was already deep in the storytelling world.
Growing up in Hazard, Kentucky — and later performing in places like Louisville — Davis found early success on storytelling stages, eventually becoming a nine-time Moth Story Slam Award winner. When he moved to the West Coast, he was looking for that same sense of community, and found it in events like In a Nutshell, where he performed in the very first show.
Now a Nutshell mainstay, Davis brings stories shaped by family, memory and the unique lens of Appalachian life — stories that, as he puts it, aim to make audiences feel something lasting, whether that’s laughter, reflection or everything in between.