RICK PAYNE
www.acousticguitarworkshop.com
Often compared with Ry Cooder, finger picking and slide guitar maestro Rick Payne’s performances have taken him to prime time TV, festivals, Arts Centres and theatres throughout the UK and on tour to Europe, USA, Scandinavia and Greek Islands.
He has provided the background music to a number of major BBC TV productions, inc. Whicker’s World and more recently Natural World [‘03], Channel 5 TV, for wildlife programmes on Radio 4 and for BBC World Service. He has also featured on BBC Radio 2 with Nigel Kennedy and appeared live on BBC1 ‘Holby City’
His mastery of acoustic blues takes him beyond the usual boundaries of blues festivals and clubs. He frequently plays at jazz and folk events and at literature and poetry festivals and has even played the blues at a classical music festival.
A qualified guitar tutor, Rick passes his skills on to around 150 students per week at schools throughout the South West and at workshops nationwide. He also has a much visited on line tuition site at www.acousticguitarworkshop.com
He has recorded a number of CDs including the noted ‘Blue River Blues’ for Bennett House Records, California.
His 10 CD + video set ’60 Day Finger style Blues Camp’ is promoted by TRUEFIRE
and Acoustic Music Records [Peter Finger, Germany] will shortly publish a book re Rick’s finger style teaching method.
Reviewers have described his sound as: heart wrenching and passionate, delicate and scorching, seriously brilliant, totally absorbing and spellbindingly evocative with raw and fiery vocals to match.
‘…held this sell out audience spellbound from start to finish…’ Spalding Blues Club
‘…the guitar playing is simply amazing, it expresses such emotion you have to sit back in awe…’ R & B magazine
‘…impressive slide guitar playing from West Country bluesman whose work bears comparison with early Ry Cooder…’ Daily Telegraph
‘…his performance was flawless….so great is his
Recording…CDs
include the notable ‘Blue River Blues’ Bennett
House Records California…single
in top 5 independent charts…single
featured on ‘Bergerac’
10 CD + video
set –
’60 Day Fingerstyle Blues Camp’ promoted by TRUEFIRE
Finger
Style instruction book for Acoustic Music
Records
BBC TV [Whicker’s World]…BBC TV [Natural World]… Channel 5 [Nick’s Quest]…BBC TV [Holby City]…
BBC regional TV [Points West]…Wire TV [Sunday Show]….
BBC Radio 2 [with Nigel Kennedy]…BBC Radio 4 [wild life programmes]…
BBC World Service…BBC Radio
Gloucestershire…BBC Radio Bristol…Gemini
Radio…KMVR Nevada City C. A. Radio…Danish
Radio…Anna Livia FM Dublin…Star
Blues [Cambs radio]….European Blues Association…
North East Tourist Board [blues and Celtic music for promo video]
Colne Blues Festival [international stage]…Gloucester Blues Festival…N.Columbia USA Folk Festival…Aarlborg Festival Denmark…International American Express Blues Festival…Trowbridge Folk Festival…Malborough Folk Festival…Topsham Festival…Brighton Festival…Birmingham Jazz Festival…Cheltenham Music Festival…Lichfield Winter Beer Festival…Cheltenham Literature Festival…Farnham Blues Festival…Bristol Blues Festival…Norton Park Blues Festival…Dartmouth Music Festival…Dartmouth Blues Festival…Devizes Festival…Stonehouse Music Festival…Chichester Festival…Crawley Folk Festival…St. Ives Festival… Bury Blues Festival at MET Arts Centre…………..Ribchester Classical Music Festival Torquay Aquaculture Festival …Corsham Festival…Stroud & District Arts Festival…
Welsh Dragon Blues Festival….Nantwich Jazz And Blues Festival…
Priddy Folk Festival…Banbury Festival …Madd May Festival…Blues and Beyond Festival…
Ronnie
Scotts London…Ronnie Scotts Birmingham…Marquee Club London…Colston Hall Bristol…Playhouse
Theatre Cheltenham…Guildhall Gloucester…Coaver Club Devon…Winterbourne
Arts Centre…Cellar Club…Dorchester Arts Centre…Brewery Arts Cirencester…The
Folk House Bristol…Devizes Corn Exchange…Theatre Royal Bristol…. Palladium
Club Devon…Acorn Arts Centre Penzance…Queen Elizabeth Hall Bristol…Bridgwater
Arts Centre…Newport Folk Club…Wharf Arts Centre Tavistock… …Swindon Arts
Centre…New Vic Theatre…Forest Arts Centre New Milton…West End Centre…Ritz
Acoustic Club…Izzy Pound Blues Club…The Borderline London W1…Albert Hole
Folk Club...St. Austell Arts Centre…Limelight Theatre Aylesbury…Market
Theatre Ledbury…Arc Theatre Trowbridge…Kingshill House Arts Centre Dursley…Havant
Arts Centre…Crawley Blues Club…Spalding Blues Club…12 Fret Guitar Club…Morpeth
Golf Club…Caedmon Hall Gateshead…Cheltenham Film Studios…Shaftesbury Arts
Centre…The Blues Rooms…The Painswick Centre…The Farm Country Club…Old
Town Hall…Bell Blues Club....
The
Plough Arts Centre…Norden Farm Centre For The Arts…Roses Theatre…
Penrith
Guitar Weekend…Shepton Mallet Folk Club…Bowen West Theatre..
Westbury-on-Severn
Village Hall…Tower Arts Centre…Newcastle Live Theatre..
Central
Studio…Blue Front Blues Room Club…Blues On The Lock Club…Parc & Dare
Theatre…Courtyard Arts Centre.…MAC Arts Centre…Windsor Arts Centre….Quay
Theatre… Hat
Factory Arts Centre…
Abertillery
Community Theatre..Chesterfield Arts Centre…Wyndham Arms Blues Club
**Performed
and/or recorded with:**
Nigel
Kennedy…John Girton [Maria Muldaur, Hoagy Carmichael, Linda Ronstadt]…Kit
Morgan[Vanessa Mae, Ian Anderson]…Ray Laidlaw and Marty Craggs [Lindisfarne]….Chris
Jagger…Andy Sheppard
guitaring you sometimes find yourself wondering who is playing whom…’ Blueprint [British Blues Connection ]
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