7:30 PM
All Souls UU Congregation
60 Huntington St., New London, CT 06320
Rick Fielding was a musician who loved playing, teaching, and talking about music, whether on stage, in a classroom, or over a kitchen table. Growing up in Montreal in the 1960’s in a musical family, Rick was influenced by musicians like Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Rev. Gary Davis, Pete Seeger, Josh White, and The Weavers.
Rick was a strongly tradition-oriented songmaker who settled in Toronto, Ontario; a superb multi-instrumentalist, and a darned fine singer. A veritable cornucopia of fine folk music from a great Canadian musician. Rick played about ten instruments and threw traditional songs, fiddle tunes, banjo breakdowns, class conscious mining songs, lyrical stories, a radical music anthem (Voices of Struggle), great guitar and mandolin picking, and plenty more into a great acoustic stew.
Rick Fielding passed away March 20th, 2004, after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer.