About Nick
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 four 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 Elora Fringe, Guelph, and Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. Nick Naffin has also appeared with Tony Bird, Ana Coutinho, Thomas Handy, Michael Keith, John Pearse, Don Ross, Mose Scarlett, Michael Smith, Jackie Washington and many others, and worked with producers like Joao Carvalho (Hayden, Lost & Profound), Don Bird (Prairie Oyster), and John Switzer (Jane Siberry).
Currently, Nick lives in Germany, serving as founding artistic director of the Southern Lights Folk Festival. His latest solo album Ghost Of A Dancer (Blue Land, 0061) shows
"a grand guitarist... folk jazz of enormous depth" (Folker! magazine, Germany).
Nick plays the occasional concert, and enjoys living in a small village in the foothills of the Alps, as well as reading, contemplation, and a few more Dyonisian pastimes.