Queen City Balladeers celebrate 60 years of protesting, listening, and folk song

Ed and Sharon Riegler can't remember a life without a guitar in the backseat.

"Yes, we don't leave home without it," Sharon chuckles, and Ed chimes in. "I like to … pretty much treat it like a person in terms of heat and humidity."

The Rieglers sing about all things: politics, social change, late nights, full moons. Over the years, they've taken their music to stages across the Tri-State. Coffee shops, family homes, memory care facilities, even to YouTube — where they steal glances at each other as they play, sharing smiles between lines.

But there's one stage that's their favorite.