Society Hall Presents an Intimate Birthday Evening With Don Richmond!
Society Hall is excited to host well-known Alamosa musician Don Richmond for a intimate solo performance, also celebrating his 70th birthday, at 7:00 PM on Saturday, November 30th at Society Hall, 400 Ross Ave in Alamosa. Door will open at 6:00 PM. Tickets are $20 and are available online at www.societyhall.org and at the Green Spot at 711 State Ave in Alamosa. The concert will also stream live on the Society Hall Facebook page and You-Tube channel.
Don Richmond has been a professional performing musician for more than fifty-five years. He regularly performs and records on more than a dozen instruments including electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, violin, viola, dobro, pedal steel guitar, banjo, harmonica, accordion, trumpet and percussion and is an award-winning songwriter. He has released 7 solo CDs, 4 other albums with the Colorado band Tumbleweed earlier in his career, 3 with the Taos, New Mexico based group Hired Hands, 7 with the New Mexico based group The Rifters, 3 as a duo with David Clemmer, and 2 with his older brothers as the Richmond Brothers.
Don is also the founder of Howlin' Dog Records, which has recorded and released hundreds of other recordings by many local, regional, and national artists, and is also a board member of the non-profit Howin' Dog Music Group, which raises funds to assist musical artists in making their recordings. He has also been an Artist-In-Residence and Aesthetic Institute instructor in Colorado Council of the Arts’ Art in Education program. Don created and recorded the music for the public television documentary Roy Bedichek’s Vanishing Frontier, the highly acclaimed civil-rights documentary film We Did It All Ourselves, and a film on the plight of Katrina refugees titled Still Waiting – Life After Katrina, which aired nationally in the fall of 2007. In late 2004, Don published a book on performance psychology and creativity titled Getting Your Music Past the Fear. He is also a regularly featured contributor on creativity to the nationally-syndicated radio program The Art of the Song.
Richmond is also a sought-after accompanist, having been a sideman or band member with dozens of artists, including Eliza Gilkyson, Michael Hearne, Chuck Cannon, Susan Gibson, Walt Wilkins, Chuck Pyle, The Mitguards, Bill Hearne, Pint & a Half, Bob Livingston, Tish Hinojosa, and many more. Don also recorded or contributed tracks to many of those artists' recordings.
Don is currently on the board of the Society Hall Foundation, which owns and operates the non-profit performance space Society Hall in Alamosa, and is a past board member of the Alamosa Live Music Association and Crestone Performances, Inc, which for many years presented the Crestone Music Festival. He also volunteers for and supports numerous other local non-profit organizations. Don was awarded an honorary doctorate in musical performance from Adams State University in 2014 and in 2015 received the Governor's Award for Creative Leadership in the state of Colorado. Don makes his home with his wife Teri McCartney a few miles outside of Alamosa, Colorado.
Says Don, “I'm looking forward to doing a bit of a journey through the years, from some of the first songs I ever wrote, up through some new ones that no one has heard, including songs from my years with Tumbleweed, Hired Hands, and the Rifters.” He continues, “And I'm sure I'll throw in a few favorite covers from other writers I love too – we'll see what pops up. And more importantly, there will be cake!”
The board of Society Hall, a 501c-3 non-profit organization, invites you to a very special musical evening with Don Richmond in solo performance Saturday, November 30th at 7:00 pm, at Society Hall at 400 Ross Avenue in Alamosa. Tickets are $20 in advance from www.societyhall.org or the Green Spot in Alamosa. The concert will also stream live on the Society Hall Facebook page and You-Tube channel. Society Hall – Where Community Celebrates!
