Say hey to Captain Rick!
Cap’n Rick wasn’t always strumming a guitar in beach bars.
Rick Stewart began singing and playing rock and folk music in 1963 in Columbus, Ohio. In the late 1960s, he toured Southeast Asia with the USO and he performed on national television. He returned to the Buckeye State, where he spent 23 years as a podiatrist in the Foot and Ankle Surgery Center at Ohio State University Hospitals. After helping a few too many people who stepped on pop-tops – so the story goes – he moved south of the Mason-Dixon line and into the Sunshine State.
Cap’n, as he became known, bought and operated Yachting Vacations, an award-winning sailboat charter company out of Burnt Store Marina near Punta Gorda, Florida. In addition, he owned and operated three restaurants in Southwest Florida, while also helping others realize their dreams of becoming homeowners in paradise.
Cap’n followed his heart into the Florida Keys, where he enjoyed 11 years on the stages of South Florida’s most-visited destinations such as Sloppy Joe’s, Margaritaville, Geiger Key, etc. He played bass guitar and sang with the Dave Aaron Band, and opened for major acts in the Miami area.
Cap’n has returned to the Punta Gorda area, where he regularly appears in Lee and Charlotte counties with the best computerized backup system that offers the full-band sound his fans appreciate as they listen to an array of trop rock (especially his renditions of Jimmy Buffett’s hits), classic rock and country hits. Cap’n Rick often performs at Harpoon Harry's, Cass Cay, Hurricane Charley’s, and other popular venues in Southwest Florida where the good beats, moods, and drinks inevitably lead to foot-tapping, singing and dancing.
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