Join us for our Summer Sunday Sounds concert series! These free concerts take place over the summer months and are open to everyone! Bring your own picnic and join us at 5:30 before the show starts at 6:30.
Richard Smith and Tommy Emmanuel richardsmithmusic.com
Richard Smith with Chet Atkins richardsmithmusic.com
“The most amazing guy I know on guitar. He can play anything I know, only better”
- Chet Atkins
From Bach to Beatles and barn-burners to ballads, audiences delight when world-renowned fingerstyle guitarist Richard Smith cuts loose. His incredible stylistic wealth is founded in a lifelong love for music. Born in Beckenham, Kent, England in 1971, Richard started playing guitar at age 5 under the instruction of his father. Concentrating initially on the country picking of Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, young Richard digested everything he heard, learning even the most complicated of these tunes with ease, and confounding everyone with his dexterity.
In 2001, Richard became the National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion in Winfield, Kansas. He was elected Thumbpicker of the Year in 2008 and inducted into the National Thumbpickers Hall of Fame in Kentucky in 2009.