The Secret Ingredient: Violinist Rurik Nunan is the quintessential sideman

Violinist Rurik Nunan is the quintessential sideman. Rurik Nunan was supposed to be doing snow angels on a bed of euros in France by now. Though he made the pilgrimage from Atlanta to New Orleans to study at Loyola University in the early 2000s, his focus then was international business, because wolves of Wall Street study finance to snag fancy banking gigs. Which Nunan did, for the record. By the time he was 24, the Atlanta native was packing bags for a job abroad with a French mega-bank, doing what the 39-year-old fiddler now calls “dressed up bullshit.”

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