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Adam Fine

Torontonian Adam S. Fine had long planned to be a jazz double bassist. Picking-up and moving to Halifax for no particular reason in 2000 quickly changed the plan.

Fine was surprised to quickly find himself as a popular sideman in the local Halifax indie-country-rock scene. Fine founded [now sadly defunct] Country/R&B collective The Hurtin' Unit with Becky Siamon, RJ Donovan and Daniel "Bucky" Baugh.

Fine currently works with country singer-songwriter Andy Cull and The Fancy Lebanese Country Band, as well as rising star Norma MacDonald. He's also been found playing salsa with Alma Latina, Chester's pop favourite Jamie Junger and local folk luminary Al Tuck as well as bluegrass/blues picker Darren Arsenault and rocker Tyler Messick and the Museum Pieces. Other favourites include singer-songwriters Meaghan Smith, Sherry Ryan and Christina Martin as well as harpist extraordinaire, Evan Kolvoord. Naturally he still loves playing jazz, doing so in Halifax's gypsy-jazz collective Gypsophilia and acid-jazz influenced Atlantic Standard Time. But like most post-modern musicians, Fine enjoys playing in all traditions, drawing out the best materials from each to add to his bag of tricks.

A graduate of the Dalhousie music program, Fine is currently artistic director at JazzEast (producers of the TD Canada Trust Atlantic Jazz Festival Halifax). Please don't tell anyone.

He composes sporadically and is interested in the music industry; one of his main personal goals is helping to develop Halifax's burgeoning and diverse music scene to its full potential.

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"Contrast that with Adam Fine, whose physical manner is stillness epitomized, but whose fingers dance wildly on the strings while his bass sounds a prolific gamut of sound from oom-pah to fiery cadenzas jammed with hundreds of notes." --Stephen Pedersen, The Chronicle Herald

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