Rick Blanchard

Rick Blanchard Mini-Bio Rick Blanchard is an entertainer, an actor, and a musician. Rick's climb up the proverbial show business ladder began no different than millions of other starry-eyed hopefuls. At age nine, he outgrew his treasured Roy Rogers guitar, and at 12, became the youngest member of a teen combo who logged their share of Moose Lodge, VFW and Elks Club dances. As a teenager, Rick was often invited to play with the various musicians and traveling acts performing for the troops at military bases and U.S.O. shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. At 15, with his electric guitar in one hand and poorly forged ID in the other, he began playing regularly in local honky tonks and taverns. It was while working in these backstreet bars that he learned to play a variety of instruments and began to develop a style and stage presence uniquely his own. His quick wit and boyish charm soon brought him from sideman to front man. By the age of 20, Rick had become a well-seasoned pr