2021 UPDATE
FULL VACCINATION, 6 FEET DISTANCING AND MASKS ARE MANDATORY FOR ALL PATRONS AND ARTISTS. MASKS MAY BE REMOVED ONCE SEATED.
Off The Grid Productions extends to you a sincere Eganville welcome! Our intention is to create a relaxed concert feeling and ensure your musical experience feels like a private party. Here's what to expect when you arrive.Snacks and beverages will be available as at all concerts, HOWEVER, one member of each group seated will be the designated person to pick up from the common table. Washrooms will be available throughout the concert, however one person for each bathroom will be allowed in the house at one time. Tickets will be limited so that we may offer safe distancing and will be refunded if concert is cancelled due to weather. We will have some seats inside the sunroom available upon request.
BIO
Fines' Solar Powered Too is nominated for 2021 Juno Awards "Best Blues Album"
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 eight albums, including one with long-time collaborator, Suzie Vinnick.
On Fines’ newest release, the Juno-nominated Solar Powered Too, the bulk of the songs were recorded in a little gazebo in the North Kawartha woods, with solar power. You can hear the crickets and cicadas if you listen carefully.
“After spending a lot of my time playing on my National Steel, I knew I wanted to make another album for guitar and voice, only this time it would be mostly slide guitar on a steel bodied guitar”, says Fines. “I decided I wanted to return to my little cabin in the Kawartha Highlands and record again with the modest solar powered setup there - two panels and 4 golf cart batteries.”The seclusion of the recording process has paid off immensely – bringing to life the honesty of his lyrics and accessibility of his music.
With 11 originals and co-writes, and one cover of a Jesse Winchester song (That’s What Makes You Strong), Solar Powered Too is a powerful release, ripe with vivid images of sorrow, optimism, and the complexities of life. Featuring appearances from other respected Canadian artists such as Alec Fraser, Gary Craig, Roly Platt, Melissa Payne, Jimmy Bowskill, Rob Phillips, Suzie Vinnick, Stacie Tabb, Sherie Marshall and Samantha Martin, Solar Powered Too is Rick Fines’ most accomplished album to date. “Releasing an album during a pandemic, when all my gigs are cancelled is a little strange“, he says. “But this album was made with the help of my friends and it carries that strength on its journey.”
Discography
2020 - Solar Powered Too
2015 - Rick Fines - Driving home
2012 - Rick Fines - Muskoka Moon -an original compilation
2006 - Rick Fines - Solar Powered
2006 - Rick Fines and Suzie Vinnick – Nothing Halfway
2003 - The Rick Fines Trio – Riley Wants His Life Back
2001 - Rick Fines and Friends – Live at the Harvest
1998 - Rick Fines - Out of the Living Room
1996 - Rob Watson and Jackson Delta Electric Live
1996 - Rick Fines - Arcadia
1995 - Rick Fines -Bootleg
1992 - Jackson Delta - I Was Just Thinking That
1991 - Jackson Delta - Lookin` Back
1989 - Jackson Delta - Acoustic Blues
1988 - Jackson Delta - Delta Sunrise
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Rick has just released "Driving home" All original, upbeat and optimistic, this is a more electric, bigger production featuring his best writing to date. Soulful and easy-going roots and blues, built on relaxed grooves and thoughtful writing.
Rick Fines performs "Laundry on the Line" at Off The Grid Productions in Eganville, ON Sept 14, 2019
Never Let Go - Rick Fines
“ A gorgeous picker with a down-home voice and attitude, even Fines’ blues can lift your spirits.”
- Norm Provencher, The Ottawa Citizen
Read the review at:
http://top100canadianblog.blogspot.ca/2015/06/music-review-of-day-rick-fines-driving.html
“... the classic blues guitar picking and authentic-sounding vocals of Rick Fines were the sweetener. Harking back to the Blues ancients and using their music to inform his own, Fines was the classic unknown who whets the appetite and an early opportunity to hear more would be welcome.”
- Rob Adams, Scotland review, The Herald, Glasgow Scotland
“A musician from the "Great White North" won the hearts of the festival audience, taking home a check for $1,000 as winner of the competition.Rick Fines of Peterborough, Ontario, won the top prize with his unique guitar styling, sly tongue-in-cheek humor and a distinctive voice, described by audience members as "a mix of Leon Redbone and Randy Newman."
– Angie Long, Greenville Advocate, Alabama.