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Rick Fines
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City,
Province
Peterborough, ON
Website
www.rickfines.com
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Email
N/A
Style
Folk
Blues
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Band
Rick
Fines Trio
Jackson
Delta
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Band
Members
Rick Fines
Richard Simpkins
Rob Philips
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Discography
Riley
Wants His Life Back
Live at the
Harvest
Out Of The Living
Room
Arcadia
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Video
Rick
Fines in Ottawa
courtesy
of www.rickfines.com
(WindowsMediaPlayer)
Instrument(s)
guitar
Inspiration
N/A
Experience
23 yrs
Biography
Rick Fines loves what he
does! He has been playing music professionally for 23 years now. At
42, he is a veteran of the folk and blues circuits in North America.
His song “Riley Wants His Life Back” has just won first place in
the blues category of the International Songwriting Competition, with
B.B. King one of the judges! He won the MapleBlues Award for Acoustic
Act Of The Year twice (98, 99) and was nominated this year for the
fourth time for MapleBlues Songwriter of the Year. His work with
Jackson Delta (for 15 years) brought nominations from both the Juno
and the Handy Awards. He has played for legendary blues piano player
Pinetop Perkins, songstress Colleen Peterson, folk icon Penny Lang and
many others. He has toured from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic
Ocean, from B.C. to New England, France to Gr. Britain, bringing his
understanding of blues, finger-style and bottleneck guitar.
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