Rick Lee is a Massachusetts-based old-time banjo and piano player, singer, and songwriter with family roots deep in Appalachia (his Tennessee-born grandfather was a singer with repertoire from the mountains of East Tennessee). A much sought-after piano-accompanist in his own right, Rick designs and teaches workshops for musicians who want to develop their own accompaniment skills, with a focus on jamming situations where players have to adapt on the fly to unfamiliar material.
Rick appears in several performance situations: Solo; in a duo with Bob Zentz; as 1/3 of "Scuttlebutt"
with Bob Zentz and Rick Epping, emphasizing instrumental music of the tall
ships and songs of the sea; in a trio with Bill Walach and Dave Howard, sometimes known as
"Too Much Facial Hair;" in "The Dreaded Banjo Orchestra" at Sandy Sheehan's old time music nights at Johnny D's in Somerville, MA.
