Some of the most talked about shows at Alamosa’s Society Hall venue in the last couple of years have been an amazing gathering of several of the most popular and up-and-coming Texas songwriters working today, called the Traveling Red River Songwriters Festival.
Society Hall is thrilled to welcome them back for a show at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door and are available at the Green Spot in Alamosa or online at www.societyhall.org.
The Traveling Red River Songwriters are a collective of individual artists and writers that team up annually for a tour to Red River, N.M., for The Red River Songwriters’ Festival, a festival founded by these writers in 2011.
The members of the TRRS are Josh Grider, Susan Gibson, Walt Wilkins, Kelley Mickwee and Drew Kennedy.
It’s become a bit of a tradition for the festival artists to do a show at Society Hall, before the festival begins on Jan. 23 in Red River.
Mickwee will miss the Alamosa show, as she is on a cruise singing with the smash Austin band Shinyribs.
Alamosa musician Don Richmond will join the group to pick along and sprinkle a few more notes over their beautiful songs.
Between the four writers the audience will hear folk, country, soul, roots, rock and roll and a whole lot of harmony singing.
A short list of these artists’ accolades include Nashville publishing deals, a multi-platinum country single, international touring,and more than 25 albums released between them.
Society Hall audiences have enjoyed shows in past years from all of these artists individually or in a duo configuration.
Each of these artists has experienced a lot of success performing on their own, and can easily hold a room of listeners for an entire show, but there is something magical that happens when the group comes together that seems to make the sum greater than its parts — and that’s saying something!
The board of Society Hall, a local non-profit performance space and event venue, expects a fantastic evening of music with the Traveling Red River Songwriters on Saturday at Society Hall, The venue is located at 400 Ross Avenue in Alamosa. Tickets are available at the Green Spot or online at www.societyhall.org. For more information about the festival in Red River, visit www.redriversongs.com. Society Hall – where the community celebrates.
