Society Hall Presents an Intimate Birthday Evening With Don Richmond!
12/1/24, 2:00 AM
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.
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. 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!
More Upcoming Shows & Events
October 13 - The River Arkansas
October 18 – Michael O'Connor and Jason McIntyre
October 25 – Kim Treiber and Chipper Thompson and band
November 22 - Roger Dawson
November 30 - Don Richmond