RICK DAVIS is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and  international performer and teacher, who, for over 45 years, has played various styles of music ranging from Classical to Folk, Liturgical to Rock and Roll.  Rick sees his job as learning the tunes of the "old-timers" from various musical traditions and passing them on. His love of the stories of history and of music have come together for him in the hammered dulcimer to show forth in the playing of that music and the telling of that history from the heart.

Twice Hammered Dulcimer Champion at the prestigious Fiddler's Grove Ole-Time Fiddler's and Bluegrass Festival, Rick teaches privately at his home in Chattanooga, TN, offers hammered dulcimer workshops locally and at festivals in the US and Ireland. He contributed music to the Arts North Carolina  "PLANT THE ARTS grow north carolina" video project. In 2004, he released his debut CD, "Of Things To Come...", which includes music from the American Old-Time, Irish, Scottish, Breton and English traditions, as well as a few of his own tunes.

Visit Rick's website:
www.CuteDogMusic.com


Photo credits:
B&W:  Charles Gupton
Color: Wendell Hull