Luca Bartolini

I started playing guitar when I was 9 years old. At 15 I took finger-picking guitar lessons from Beppe Gambetta, and at 16 I was exposed to Bluegrass for the first time, very appropriately at a Red Wine concert. I fell in love with this music right away, and started studying flat-picking techniques.

When Beppe left the band in 1991 to pursue a solo career I was called to replace him, and became Red Wine's guitar player and baritone singer. I left the band in 1993 to form Lost in Bluegrass, and played with them until 1997, when I joined Hocus Pocus, a veteran Italian "New Country" band. With them I stayed for 4 years, playing festivals in Italy and abroad and having a cut in the "Country in this country" compilation CD.

I have rejoined Red Wine in early 2002.

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