Maddie Rice

Maddie Rice is an American guitarist.[1] In 2015 she was chosen to play lead guitar in Jon Batiste's Stay Human, the house band for Stephen Colbert, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.[2] Her choice was seen as remarkable, as she was then just 22 years old.

Maddie Rice
Born1993 (age 26–27)
Utah
NationalityUSA
Alma materBerklee College of Music
OccupationGuitarist

Rice grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and attended Judge Memorial Catholic High School. [1][3]Rice was so dedicated to music that she finished her homework at school so she could devote five hours per night to practicing when she got home. Rice moved to Boston, Massachusetts for college; she attended the Berklee College of Music.[4]

In New York she is also a member of a five piece band called Rubblebucket.[1][5]

References
  1. Alyssa Ladsinski (2017-01-28). "Rubblebucket Brings a Bit of Brooklyn Bounce to The Hollow". NYS Music. Retrieved 2017-08-22. The five-piece, consisting of Kalmia Traver, Alex Toth, Dandy McDowell, Maddie Rice and Adam Dotson, hit the road for a string of Northeast dates across CT, RI, MA, NY and PA in support of their latest EP, If U C My Enemies,
  2. "Stephen Colbert's New Guitarist Talks Pentatonics". Gear gods. 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2017-08-22. It’s sick to see someone so young get the call, and Maddie rips. See for yourself below, as EMGtv recently posted a lesson with her about pentatonic substitutions (which you might also call modal pentatonics).
  3. Chris Miller. "Utah guitarist lands spot on Colbert's 'Late Show'". KUTV. Retrieved 2017-08-22. It's just like, 'What can this 14 year-old do?' and then about five, ten minutes into the lesson, I thought, this is the most talented person I've ever worked with.
  4. Katherine Cusumano (2016-11-11). "Exclusive Track Premiere: Rising Star Clay's Sultry New Single "Follow Me Down"". W magazine. Retrieved 2017-08-22. She was chafing at the confines of higher education, and she found an outlet in her funk music that also comprised fellow students like bassist Alissia Benveniste and guitarist Maddie Rice (who now plays with the house band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert).
  5. Denny Dryoff (2017-01-26). "On Stage: Rubblebucket gets things going". Unionville Times. Retrieved 2017-08-22. “We started writing the EP in summer 2015,” said Toth, during a phone interview last week from a tour stop in Rhode Island. “We’ve been working on a full-length since then – on-and-off. We recorded the EP tracks last spring and got them finished by summer.”
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