Rick Warren Musician

Rick's solo projects include weaving tapestries of technicolor dreamscapes and experimenting with sounds using guitars, synthesizers and field recordings, processed with electronic effects ranging from guitar effect pedals to iOS apps. 

spaceheater

spaceheater put their effects-driven guitars, thumping bass and polyrhythmic drum assault to work on everything from the heaviest rock to jazz and blues to ambient and industrial sounds, in both originals and obscure covers. The latter span from early Pink Floyd to electric-era Miles Davis to the incessantly melodic jingle emanating from Carvel Ice Cream trucks every summer.

Rick and Marilyn make music that is Guitar-Centered Americana, Blues, Rock, Country and Folk. Performing a mix of cover tunes and originals, Marilyn sings the songs and Rick tells the rest of the story on his guitar.

Guitars A Go Go is an edge-pushing improvisational partnership of two acclaimed and very “switched-on” Hudson Valley-based guitarists, Rick Warren and Sal Cataldi (aka Spaghetti Eastern Music). Armed with a plethora of effects pedals and a quest for meditative and melodic adventures that span a galaxy of musical influences and attitudes, the duo have been performing at leading Hudson Valley music venues and art galleries since early 2019, and, on occasion, in a quartet abetted by veteran bassist Mark Steven Brooks and percussionist Pete Tenerowicz.

Hudson, NY based Magic Stones, (or Magik Stonz) performs genre-defying feats of musical prestidigitation mixing it up on stage with Slink Moss-crafted originals and covers of classic rock favorites. Our instrumentation adds pan-drum and glockenspiel to the guitar/bass/drums motif.

wAvEs HQ, or the Warren-Ver Straeten Half Quartet, is evolving out of the improvisational interactions of Chuck Ver Straeten (vocalizations) and Rick Warren (guitar, electronics) at recent Creative Music Studio performances, the Soundpainting ensemble known as Audiocanvas, and sessions with Karl Berger. Both players invent from a broad palette of music and sound. Performances often comments that describe Rick and Chuck as “musical twins from other mothers”.

Audiocanvas is a Hudson Valley based Soundpainting ensemble led by bassist/soundpainter Steve Rust. Their debut CD entitled ‘Some Bad Western’ was recorded at Sertso Studios in Woodstock (which does have a festival ‘Drum Boogie’ every other year!) during December, 2019.

Kuumba Dance and Drum

In an ongoing partnership with the Hudson Opera House, Operation Unite’s Kuumba Dance and Drum program offers a variety of music and dance classes, as well as performance opportunities for all ages. Kuumba, taken from the seven principles of African Heritage, symbolizes creativity, to do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.