Getting Your Music Past the Fear (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594576492)

Don Richmond has been a professional performing musician for more than thirty-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. He has released 5 solo CDs, 4 other albums with the Colorado band Tumbleweed earlier in his career, 3 with the Taos, New Mexico based group Hired Hands, and a new release in 2004 with the New Mexico based group The Rifters. Don owns and operates Howlin' Dog Records, which has recorded and released numerous other recordings by many local, regional, and national artists. Don 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 independent short film Hexama, Hexama, as well as the highly acclaimed civil-rights documentary film We Did It All Ourselves. Don is currently celebrating the release of his fifth solo CD No Man's Land. In late 2004, Don published a book on performance psychology and creativity titled Getting Your Music Past the Fear. More info- http: //www.donrichmond.com