Dick Goodwin
aka Gordon "Dick " Goodwin
Groups available for bookings
The Dick Goodwin Quintet
The Quintet has eleven music degrees and years of university and public school teaching experience between them. The group has often appeared with area orchestras and at other cultural events and festivals in the Southeast. The Dick Goodwin Quintet began touring in Latin America for the US State Department in the early 70's, has made a dozen trips abroad, and has given hundreds of concerts in the US.
The Dick Goodwin Big Band
The Big Band has performed at major social events in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, and Virginia (including SC Governor Riley's inaugural celebration concert with Dizzy Gillespie) and has been featured in concert with area orchestras. The players are Jim Hall (drums), Dwight Spencer (guitar), Terry Trentham (bass), Doug Graham (clarinet and saxophones), Charlie Polk and Dave Allison (trumpets), Bruce Clark, Ashley Fleshman, and Ed Craft (trombones), and John Wilkinson and Kristi Hood (vocalists).
Dick and members of the band have performed with such notables as Ray Charles, Bob Hope, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, Johnny Mathis, the Spinners, the Platters, the Temptations, the Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller orchestras, Henry Mancini, Gregory Hines, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, and the touring company for the broadway show "Chicago."
"Bootleg" Recordings of the Big Band Live
Smaller Groups,
Special Groups,
Wedding Bands,
Cocktail Pianist,
Accompaniment for Choirs.
This is Dick Goodwin's specialty. Contact us.
Updated: September 9, 2011
Live Music—
Arranger, Composer & Producer
Upcoming Gigs
September 11 at 10:30 am
DG Quintet
Service at St. Martin’s in the Field (Columbia)
September 27 at 7:00pm
DG Big Band Concert
Kershaw Fine Arts Center
(Camden, SC)
October 1 at 7:00pm
DG Big Band Concert for
Jazz! Carolina 2011
in downtown Hartsville
October 7 at 7:30
DG Quintet
with the Sandlapper Singers
Dreher HS Auditorium
November 10
DG Quartet
Seawell’s – benefit for Killingsworth Home
November 12
Dick, Doug, and Bruce will be featured with the Carolina Band at halftime
November 25
DG Big Band
Augusta (GA) Symphony Cotillion
December 10 at 7:00
DG Big Band
plays the USA Dance Columbia Christmas Ball … http://www.usadance.us/calendar.htm
December 31
So what are you doing New Year’s Eve?
The Big Band returns to the Newberry Opera House – a concert, champagne, and more!
2012
January 22 at 3:00
Dick has a new piece
being premiered by Winifred Goodwin (piano), Jennifer Parker-Harley (flute), and Michael Harley (bassoon)
Innovista chamber series at the USC School of Music
February 8
The big band’s horn section performs (again) with The Temptations at the Newberry Opera House
February 12 at 7:00
DG Big Band
The Symphony League/SC Philharmonic’s Valentines Dance at Embassy Suites www.scshymphonyleague.com
February 27 at 7:00
another world Dick Goodwin premier
“Dessau Dances”
performed by Robert Jesselson (cello) and Charles Fugo (piano) at the USC School of Music
March 1-3
Dick conducts the all-state high school jazz ensemble
March 18
The Dick Goodwin Quintet
“Sundays at Four” Concert
Lutheran Church by the Lake, McCormick (SC)
April 20
DG Big Band Concert
Patriots Hall in Sumter, SC
April 26
DG Big Band
returns to the Koger Center to perform with the Palmetto Mastersingers
May 5 DG at 5:15-9:15
DG Big Band
Bell Auditorium for the Social Inc. Ball
