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: February 4, 2010

Live Music—
Arranger, Composer & Producer

Upcoming Gigs

January 29 at 7:00
DG Big Band at USC Aiken Convention Center. Anniversary
Party for the Aiken Chamber of Commerce

February 14 at 7:00
DG Big Band at the Columbia Marriott
SC Philharmonic Fundraiser/Valentine’s Ball

February 21 from 4:00 to 7:00 DG Big Band at Gotham Bagel (across from the Columbia Museum of Art)
concert/swing dance. $8. per person

March 6 TBA
DG Sextet at the North Charleston Convention
Center for the American Bandmaster’s Assoc.

March 12 & 13 at 7:30
DG Quintet is featured
with the Lexington Co. Choral Society Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church, Lex., SC

March 21, 4:00 to 7:00 (tentative date)
DG Big Band at Gotham Bagel (across from the Columbia Museum of Art) concert/swing dance. $8. per person

April 16 at 7:30
DG Big Band at Columbia Senior Center
dance. $12 in advance, $15 at the door

April 24 TBA
DG Quartet for the Lexington County Choral Society fundrasiser … at Saluda Shoals Park

April 25 at 3:00
Dick with Doug & Bunny Williams at the Newberry Opera House

April 29 at 7:30
DG Big Band in concert with the Palmetto Mastersinger at the Koger Center for the Performing Arts

May 1 at 5:30
DG Big Band plays for Spring Formal Social Inc. dance spectacular at the Augusta (GA) Civic Center

May 7 at 7:30
DG Big Band in concert at 320 Senate Street, details to follow

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