Photo: Renee Fine & Mike Nile (from a Facebook page) From Mike Nile: As many of you may or may not have heard, the love of my life Renee Fine passed away yesterday. She had been fighting stage 4 cancer for over three years. Death can feel like a shock – even when it is expected – but death ends a life, not a relationship. We will always be connected.
Thanks to all for your kind thoughts, prayers and well wishes. We will be having a musical “Life Celebration” for Renee this summer up at Shelton Manor in Idaho Springs where musicians and friends will gather to perform and share memories of Renee. I will be posting the date and time of the celebration once we have put it all together. Everyone who knew Renee is invited.
Thanks to all for your love.
Memories from Ashia Greenleaf: Renee was on of those people who ebbed and flowed in and out of my life since I was a small child. I have not talked to her for years but the memories I have are filled with happiness.
I remember being a child and brushing her beautiful thick hair. I would braid it and brush it out over and over again. As long as I didn’t interrupt the conversation with what ever adult she was speaking with, she never made me stop until my heart was content. Then she would look at me with a smile and say “done”. Her arms would go around me and I would a hug with an even bigger smile.
Every time I hear a violin/fiddle I will image her beautiful, bright spirt lighting up every note!
To her family and friends: May you mourn now and when you are ready – celebrate with dance and music
Memories from Megan Beaulieu-Martinez: We saw her play quite a few times with The Indulgers at Jack Quinn’s and could not pass up a jig or two. Rest well, Ms. Fine. You’ll be missed.
Renee Fine March 15, 1963 – April 10, 2023 – Rest In Peace
Musician, Mother, Grandmother, True Friend
https://www.facebook.com/ReneeFine1
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
From an expert: We are losing several people a day to fentynal overdoses. Don’t even try it. It could be the last time you see any of your loved ones. | If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
April 2023
12: Jah Shaka, Jamaican dub and reggae sound system operator.
11: Lotti Krekel, 81, German actress (The True Jacob, Willy the Private Detective, Robert and Bertram) and singer.
10: Danny Schur, 56, Canadian composer (Strike!), brain cancer.
9: Karl Berger, 88, German jazz pianist, composer, and educator; Valter Dešpalj, 75, Croatian cellist; Donald W. Ernst, 89, American film, music and sound editor and film producer; Chuck Morris*, 46, American percussionist (Lotus) and his son Charley (bodies discovered on this date).
8: Bob Heatlie, 76, Scottish songwriter and record producer; Rami Meir, 60, Azerbaijani-born Israeli artist, poet, and singer; Andreas K. W. Meyer, 64, German dramaturge, playwright and opera manager (Oper Bonn), heart failure.
7: Guy Bailey, British guitarist and songwriter (The Quireboys); Ian Bairnson, 69, Scottish musician (The Alan Parsons Project, Pilot, Kate Bush); Kidd Jordan, 87, American jazz saxophonist; John Regan, 71, American bass guitarist (Frehley’s Comet); Lasse Wellander, 70, Swedish guitarist (ABBA).
6: Paul Cattermole, 46, English singer (S Club 7); Nora Forster, 80, German music promoter (The Slits, Sex Pistols, The Clash), complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
4: Rockstar Ramani Ammal, 69, Indian playback singer (Kathavarayan, Haridas, Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu Odu Raja).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2023
Renee Fine, Violinist With Wild Mountain Band, Loses Battle With Cancer // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
