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Nick Naffin

Row, row, row your boat...

About Me

Living and working in Canada for ten years, German-born guitarist Nick Naffin has become a “musician’s musician” for a few players in the folk and acoustic music scenes. "Nick Naffin really is 'the thinking man's guitar player'." (Rick Fielding, CIUT-FM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) His music, released on three CDs, has garnered international critical acclaim as well as radio airplay in fourteen countries. Before emerging as a solo artist, Nick spent five years as lead guitarist for Canadian singer/songwriter, Tim Harrison , stepped out as leader of his own group, and performed and recorded in an all-acoustic duo with cellist, Alyssa Wright . His performance credits include venues like Toronto’s Music Gallery, Second City Theatre and Harbourfront Centre, several appearances on Global Television and City TV, the North by Northeast (NxNE) and the North American Folk Alliance Conventions, and festivals ranging from the Eaglewood, Home County, and Stan Rogers Folk Festivals to the Guelph, and Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. Currently, Nick lives in Germany near the Bavarian Alps, serving as founding artistic director of the Southern Lights Folk Festival . His solo album 'Ghost Of A Dancer' (Northern Breeze, NB 0061), released on March 28, 2008, shows "a grand guitarist... folk jazz of enormous depth" (Folker! magazine, Germany). Please visit www.nicknaffin.net for more information and music, and thank you very much for listening!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/14/2007
Band Website: nicknaffin.net
Band Members: Six strings, ten fingers, and every active listener at a live concert.
Influences: That which tugs at the heartstrings, rocks the body, and engages the mind.
Sounds Like: "Treehugger fusion" :-)
Record Label: Northern Breeze
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New video: ’Worlds Between’

Hello, friends and neighbours! 'Zwischenwelten' or 'Worlds Between' is a video installation by German film maker Martina Wagner.  The music is a remix of Naffin & Wright's 2003 recording of&n...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:24:00 PST

Northern Comfort video

Hey folks and folkettes, for your convenience the 'Northern Comfort' video now is also available at my video channel (click 'watch my videos' on my profile page). However, the resolution is much bette...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Wed, 07 May 2008 10:02:00 PST

New web site online

Dear friends,my new web site, www.nicknaffin.net, is now up and running. Come on over for some new music to download, some blasts from the past,and this, that, and the other thing!Thanks for stop...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:14:00 PST

Ghost tracks...

Hello everybody, here are a few tracks from my brand-new album Ghost Of A Dancer. Northern Comfort is dedicated to my friend, Canadian painter Andrew Hamilton. We've logged a few travels together. - T...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:56:00 PST

SpaceTravel

Hey friends and neighbours, So far, MySpace has been a truly rewarding experience for me. I've found so much amazing, inspiring talent out there I feel I could spend another lifetime just listening to...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:44:00 PST

Norm Hacking 1950-2007

  "It's partly religion Part passion, part smoke It's songs penned by poets Who can't take a joke It's laughing together When you're weary and broke And you still find A reason to love..." Nor...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:00:00 PST

Did You Know? - Shift Happens

Hello, buddies and neighbours, I thought I'd pass this one along to you, in case you didn't know it either.  ;-)  "Did You Know" is an eight-minute presentation on where "World 2.0" is at ri...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:25:00 PST

Witness

Hi there,and thanks for visiting! - Today I'd just like to let you know I've recently been made aware of Witness (www.witness.org), and I want to invite you to take a minute, surf over there, and chec...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:44:00 PST

Hi all!

Hello everybody, finally found my way here.  Hope to meet old friends, make new ones, and share good vibes on MySpace!  -  Sadly, there are some network problems at my office,...
Posted by Nick Naffin on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:08:00 PST