Rick was a past winner of the Best Country Male performer for the New York International Music Festival held in Las Vegas Nevada. He has had several of his original songs featured in the full length motion picture Objects of Wrath and has two songs slated to appear in an upcoming release from Perception Films. Rick recorded a full length CD entitled Vertigo at the Sound Kitchen Studio in Nashville and is a 2 time semi-finalist for the Gospel Music Association’s Music in the Rockies. Currently Rick is involved with two different ministries. He works as a youth minister for the Life Teen program and along with other local Las Vegas songwriters Rick performs monthly at the Westcare Healthy Family facility for their outreach concert series. He also is the host for the monthly songwriter’s nights at the Boulevard Bar and Grille.