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Ryan Fitzsimmons - Your State of Mind - live at the Lizard Lounge

"Your State of Mind" from Ryan Fitzsimmons' new release "Cold Sky".

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3 months ago

Ryan Fitzsimmons (Amesbury, MA) Covers Greg Klyma's (Buffalo, NY) song Helen Rose

Ryan Fitzsimmons (Amesbury, MA) Covers Greg Klyma (Buffalo, NY)

Song: Helen Rose

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4 months ago

Ryan Fitzsimmons "Haley Wall"

Ryan Fitzsimmons performs his song "Haley Wall" at For the Sake of the Song in Somerville, MA

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Big River (cover) by Ryan Fitzsimmons

Rocking night in Utica, NY.

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7 months ago

Ryan Fitzsimmons - Me & Lola - Anders Osborne Cover

recorded live in a bar where no one was paying attention, which happens to be perfect for this song, one of my favorites by Anders Osborne.

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Ryan Fitzsimmons "She Said She Said"

Ryan Fitzsimmons rocking out on "She Said She Said" at the annual Beatles benefit at the UU Church of Marblehead on June 24, 2011

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Ryan Fitzsimmons - Idle Hands - 2008 Newport Folk Festival

Ryan Fitzsimmons performs "Idle Hands" live at the Newport Folk Festival, on the waterside stage, Sunday August 3rd 2008. For another, higher qual...

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Ryan Fitzsimmons Caleb Hawley

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Ryan Fitzsimmons - Come Together

from the Beatle benefit at the Me & Thee in Marblehead 6-24-2011

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Ryan Fitzsimmons - Cigarettes Live at Toad

A live verion of a song from Ryan's new CD Cold Sky, released September 2011. Featuring Kara Kulpa on violin, this was recorded live at Toad in Ca...

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10 months ago

Ryan Fitzsimmons - North Central Line at the Burren

Ryan Fitzsimmons with the tuesday night "Exile on Elm St" crew playing "North Central Line" around the table session style.

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Ryan Fitzsimmons - I Don't Want To Wait live at Toad

Ryan Fitzsimmons playing "I Don't Want to Wait" live at Toad with Kara Kulpa, Greg Klyma, and Tom Bianchi. This song is from his record "Cold Sky"...

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11 months ago

Ryan Fitzsimmons Kickstarter Video Compilation

Ryan Fitzsimmons released his most recent record "Cold Sky" by means of a fan funded kickstarter compaign. This is the accompanying video that mad...

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2 years ago

Ryan Fitzsimmons on the NECN Coffeehouse "Dear Eugene"

This is a clip of Ryan Fitzsimmons performing Dear Eugene on the NECN coffeehouse on 10/16/09

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Ryan Fitzsimmons - Will My Mind - 2008 Newport Folk Festival
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Ryan Fitzsimmons - Will My Mind - 2008 Newport Folk Festival

Ryan Fitzsimmons performs "Will My Mind" live on the waterside stage at the 2008 Newport Folk Festival, Sunday, August 3rd 2008.

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About Ryan Fitzsimmons

Ryan Fitzsimmons is known for high-octane performance, songwriting that ranges from the subtleties of a moment to the aggression of a bar-fight, and impressive guitar work that exudes feeling. He's been engaging audiences at venues all over the north-east and beyond.

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While still a relative newcomer to Providence, RI, Ryan Fitzsimmons was nominated for Best Folk Act in the Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll for 2004. Ryan is simply the kind of musician who impresses immediately. He would go on to win the 2007 "Best Male Vocalist" award in the same poll, while gaining many other acolades along the way.

Originally from Syracuse New York, Ryan first gained attention at age 14 playing lead guitar in an alternative rock band called Anodyne which was nominated for a Syracuse Area Music Award (SAMMY). But after performing in a number of electric bands, Ryan decided to give up the amplifiers to see what he could do with just wood and steel and voice. What he discovered in performing solo with an acoustic guitar was an intimacy and nuance he found instantly inspiring. Bringing to the fold his years of electric guitar playing and using innovative alternate tunings, Ryan Fitzsimmons' acoustic world runs the emotional gambit. The lyrics of Ryan's songs range from gentle, poetic details to the in-your-face realism of a bar fight, and his guitar ranges just as far, from starry night to thunderclap.

Over the last few years, Ryan has quietly been establishing a reputation as one of the most original and promising young songwriters on the scene today. Playing shows from Montana to New England (including venues such as Club Passim, Johnny D's, and the Paradise Lounge in Boston, The Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, MA, and Stone
Soup in Pawtucket, RI) Ryan has been engaging audiences with his distinctive songwriting and dynamic performances. Along the way, Ryan has shared the stage with performers Ben Folds, Dar Williams, Loudon Wainwright III, Greg
Brown, and Richie Havens, among others.

Ryan's first CD, Open All Night, is the long-awaited companion to his live show. The album is a statement of Ryan's history, and in it Ryan takes all the diners, gas stations, smoky bars, and side streets that he's come across and extracts the human element, drawing the listener in with the questions and emotions that these places resonate. The
album also features collaborations with many of Ryan's friends, including a subtle give-and-take with Peter Mulvey on the song "Write it Down". Delivered with Ryan's inspired guitar playing and dynamic presentation, Open All Night (voted Best Local CD of 2005 in the RI Motif reader's poll) proves what has been exciting audiences at Ryan's live performances for years.

Hometown

Syracuse, NY

Country

United States

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