Rick Fines w/Alec Fraser Jr

Canadian roots music vet Rick Fines has had a long and storied career as one of the country’s hardest working musicians. He has toured across Canada countless times solo, as a duo or with a full band and has recorded over 14 albums and has been a guest on many others. Steeped in roots music, Rick Fines crafts a unique blend of warm-hearted blues, juke joint folk, and dockside soul that both embraces and defies the genres that influence him. As a veteran of the North American blues and folk circuits, he engages audiences with captivating songs, diverse guitar styling and his signature vocal growl. Rick’s career has seen him working in stellar collaboration and as a successful solo act. First gaining attention as part of the legendary Jackson Delta, he’s since released six solo albums, another with his own Rick Fines trio, and a critically acclaimed disc with fellow troubadour, Suzie Vinnick.

Fines’ newest release, Solar Powered Too, was released during a global pandemic, with the bulk of the songs recorded in a little gazebo in the North Kawartha woods, with solar power. You can hear the crickets and cicadas if you listen carefully. This album has received nominations from the Juno Awards, Maple Blues Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards – a total of 6 nominations!

Born in Glasgow, Scotland and immigrating in 1967, Alec Fraser Jr has been playing bass fifty years in Canada and around the world, with international artists such as Bo Diddley, The Drifters, Kim Wilson, as well as Canadian artists like Jeff Healey, David Wilcox and Ron Hynes.