Society Hall  "where community celebrates!"

Society Hall, the performance space, concert hall and community gathering place at 400 Ross Ave. in Alamosa, is excited to welcome the popular Creede based group Rivertown Folk to the stage on Saturday February 28th, at 7:00 PM. Opening the show will be Jenni Mansfield Peal, another popular singer-songwriter based in the western San Luis Valley. Doors will open at 6:00 pm. Tickets are $20 and are available at the Green Spot in Alamosa or at the link below. The concert will also stream live on the Society Hall Facebook page and You-Tube channel.

Rivertown Folk has been charming audiences around the San Luis Valley for several years now, playing festivals, events and celebrations around the area, collecting fans everywhere they go. Society Hall board member and Alamosa record producer Don Richmond says, “The Rifters have been fortunate to share the stage with Beth and Janet several times now, and we have certainly fallen in love with them and their music. They make you remember why you started playing music in the first place – there is a great freshness and vitality to what they are doing”

He continues, “We at Society Hall had been talking about inviting them to do a concert for months, but when we heard that they lost everything in a house fire on Christmas Day, we felt that the time to do that is now.” Donation jars will be set out for all those who wish to contribute to helping them recover their lives from this loss.

Rivertown Folk is Beth Morris and Janet Reynolds, both contributing guitar and vocals. They will be joined by their guitarist friend Rod Meecham for the Society Hall show. Their sound? Imagine if the San Juan Mountains picked up a guitar and started reminiscing. It’s folk music, sure, but with enough grit and grace to make your spine straighten a little and your drink taste better. These aren’t just songs; they’re campfire confessions dressed up with harmonies and hometown soul.

Jenni Mansfield Peal is a songwriter and singer, guitarist, accordionist, and mountain dulcimist. Her experience includes two tours of Northern Ireland including The Queens University Festival in Belfast, main stage at the Kerrville Folk Festival, numerous original productions and ensembles, and fiveindependent albums. The Mr. Peppermint Show, a children’s television show produced at WFAA in Dallas, TX, featured Jenni’s songs on multiple episodes that were syndicated world-wide for years starting in 1991. In 1990, Jenni won the Poor David’s Pub B.W. Stevenson Songwriting Contest in Dallas. Jenni was named The Best Folk Song Writer in North Texas by CBS DFW, among four, in October 2010. From October 2012 until February 2014, Jenni created and hosted the broadcast radio show “Everybody’s Folk” for KNON 89.3 FM in Dallas.

Since moving to the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado in 2015, Jenni has produced events including seven seasons of Ancient Valley Open Mic, the annual campout music event A Jam In The Rockies, and the Together SLV Fundraiser for La Puente. She has performed in ensembles and solo appearances around the SLV and was Artist in Residence for the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad for the 2019 season.