Rich Flanders' Music BIO
Rich Flanders was trained at San Francisco State University and The American Musical & Dramatic Academy where he studied voice under Paul Gavert. At home with Gershwin, Lennon/McCartney, or The Sons of the Pioneers, he chose to work within the western genre for his first album, YONDERING, “classic western songs of earth, sky and the great lone places,” which was nominated Best Western Album of the Year by The Academy of Western Artists and won The Will Rogers Cowboy Award for Best Song (Blue Prairie).
His second CD, RIDE AWAY, takes its title from the soundtrack of the classic John Ford film from 1956, The Searchers. As on YONDERING, RIDE AWAY, celebrates the beauty of the wild and the road of the rover. The album features several brand new songs, including Thirteen Voices, a tribute to “The Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.” (www.grandmotherscouncil.com).
An “American songbook” album is in preliminary planning.
Rich is the new voice of “Cowboy Bob” and “Woody Guppie” at Rubber Chicken Cards (www.rubberchickencards.com), and he has performed on Broadway in Shenandoah, toured with the First National Company of Annie, and appeared in repertory, off-Broadway, stock and dinner theatre companies across the U.S. Recent New York City appearances include performances at Birdland and The Metropolitan Room in the Broadway Concerts Direct (www.BwayDirect.com) productions of Love Makes The World Go ‘Round, the animal-rescue benefit concert, and Sarah Rice & Friends.
He was chosen by Judy Kellersberger to record her song about a great river, Tribute To The Hudson (www.cdbaby.com/cd/richflanders2), the lyrics of which were used in Pete Seeger's Clearwater Festival brochure. The song was played at the opening of the Quadricentennial at the 2009 Knickerbocker Ice Festival and is receiving airplay on folk music programs at various New York and New Jersey radio stations.
He grew up in northern California and currently resides in the rolling horse-farm country of New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife Amy, a dog, and a herd of cats. Dismount at www.richflanders.com
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