Rick Cyge

Fingerstyle guitarist Rick Cyge’s solo performance is nostalgic and evocative, rising up out of the Baby Boom Era to include a full spectrum of best loved tunes. Performing on steel-string and classical guitars, he was voted Best Musician in Sedona, Arizona, USA while performing there over the past dozen years.

Reminiscent of the styles of Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanual, Cyge’s fresh interpretations of popular classics, Celtic tunes and original compositions offer a full spectrum for the listener from ethereal ballads and love songs to uplifting pop and rock classics including fingerstyle arrangements of works by Elton John, The Beatles, Steely Dan, The Beach Boys, Paul Simon, Elvis, The Drifters, Billy Joel, James Taylor, Crosby Stills and Nash and more.

His discography includes three solo fingerstyle guitar cover albums, over sixty single releases and nine independent album releases with his group, Meadowlark. His guitar work also appears in collaborations with guitarists Stephen Wake, Will Moore, Glenn Roth and David Westin (Nylonwings).

Rick Cyge's music is getting over 200,000 streams a month currently on Spotify and has appeared on the following Spotify Editorial Playlists:

1. Calming Acoustic

2. Cozy Acoustic Morning

3. Sweater Weather Instrumentals

4. Manana Tranquila

5. The Misty Moors

“Fingerstyle guitarist, Rick Cyge’s passion for music transfers seamlessly from hands to guitar in an unexpected tapestry of string voices, harmonies, rhythms and counterpoint and communicates a lifetime of influences in a brilliant display of musicality.” - Sedona ARTSource Magazine, Winter 2019

"I love Rick’s guitar playing! Whether it is a fingerstyle arrangement of a pop standard, Celtic tune or original composition, his beautiful tone and lyrical playing are always music for the heart and soul.”

[Nancy was also a member of Paul Winter Consort before partnering with Eric Tingstad.]

"Rick Cyge is the model musician.  Always creating, always performing, always in the light.  Rick's musical history is built on the foundation of commitment to his craft, and over the decades of doing so he consistently adds new heights to the superstructure he calls 'GUITARtistry.'"

[In addition, Greg is also a gifted nature and wildlife photographic artist.]