Rick Bellaire is a songwriter and musician from Rhode Island, the leader of “Folks Together”, an eclectic, acoustic singer-songwriter collaborative and Music Director for “Ken Lyon & Tombstone”. He is a member of both the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Rhode Island Songwriters Association. He is also a record collector, specializing in post-war small group Jazz and the British Invasion and was the Assistant Manager and Principal Buyer for 25 years at Tom’s Tracks in Providence RI, a ‘mom and pop’ Record Store that closed in 2008. He is also the founder of The Rhode Island Popular Music Archive & Hall of Fame (website under construction), to preserve and promote the Ocean State’s rich legacy of Rhode Island musicians.