Rita Corinne Hosking is an American composer and musician based in Davis, California.
14 Facts About Rita Hosking
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Rita Hosking plays Americana and bluegrass styles of music with both standards and original songs.
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Rita Hosking grew up in a rural area in Shasta County, California.
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Rita Hosking's father worked the night shift at a sawmill as part of the area's logging industry.
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Rita Hosking's great-grandfather, from Cornwall, southwest of England, was an underground coal miner in the region.
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Rita Hosking says old-time music was strong in her mountain area, as well as country.
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Rita Hosking grew up hearing neighbors play their simple instruments by ear, as a group called the Mountaineers.
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Rita Hosking has performed at many popular festivals including the Strawberry Music Festival, Live Oak Music Festival, Kate Wolf Music Festival and Sisters Folk Festival.
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Rita Hosking was the 2007 Emerging Artist Winner at the Bluegrassin' In The Foothills festival in Plymouth, California.
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On September 6,2008, Rita Hosking was selected the winner of the nationally respected Dave Carter Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Sisters Folk Festival in Sisters, Oregon.
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On June 18,2009, Rita Hosking performed as a finalist at the acclaimed Telluride Troubadour Competition, held in conjunction with the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
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Rita Hosking is versatile, performing either as a soloist, or in duos, trios or quartets.
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Rita Hosking is sometimes supported by a back-up group named Cousin Jack that includes:.
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Rita Hosking bought Herring's album and discovered that Rich Brotherton, longtime mandolin and guitar player in Robert Earl Keen's band, had produced it.