ALAMOSA – Society Hall is proud to welcome back the Colorado folk – Americana group The River Arkansas at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13.  

Tickets are $20 and are available online at www.societyhall.com or at the Green Spot, 711 State Ave., Alamosa. The concert will also stream on the Society Hall Facebook page and You-Tube channel. Society Hall is at 400 Ross Ave., Alamosa. 

The River Arkansas is fronted by former Haunted Windchimes songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Clark. In the winter of 2014, Clark penned a collection of songs about heartbreak, love, and escaping the clutches of day-to-day society. The following spring, Clark decided to make that collection into a record. 

By good fortune Macon Terry, a bass player and former member of the band Paper Bird, happened to be in the neighborhood the day the studio was booked for recording. Though Terry arrived not knowing any of the songs, what they captured was the beginning of something great. 

Later they would add Robin Chestnut on drums, Rachel Sliker on violin, and Benjamin Gallagher on piano. 

With the release their third studio album "Any Kind of Weather", the band has hit their stride, traveling the mid-west, south, and western United States as well as playing festivals across Colorado, delivering their distinctive mixture of Country, Blues, Folk and Americana. 

Clark is a Calhan native now residing on the banks of the Arkansas River in Pueblo. With The River Arkansas, Clark (a self-taught natural) composes, sings, plays guitar, banjo, and harmonica. In other musical endeavors, The Haunted Wind Chimes and Sugar Sounds, he has been known to play mandolin, violin, and piano. 

Sliker, violinist, is also a Colorado native hailing from Colorado Springs and now resides in Boulder. She trained classically on violin from ages 5 to 22 and her chops on the violin transcend from symphony stage performance to bluegrass festivals. With The River Arkansas, Sliker brings the down-home Americana flavor with her fiddle and soft, melodic vocal harmonies. 

Terry, upright bassist, grew up in the big ol' mess of Houston, Texas, and moved to Boulder to study Environmental Design. After living along Colorado's front range for over a decade, he traded in the busy city life for a calm existence in the San Luis Valley. Terry started playing guitar and electric bass soon after going to see Guns n' Roses and Sound Garden at the age of 11. Prior to playing music Terry was a professional ventriloquist and puppeteer from the age of 8 to 14. He began playing upright bass when he was 24, and it has been his primary instrument ever since. 

Chestnut, percussionist, is originally from Mountainview, Calif., and now calls Boulder his home. He is a Stanford Band Camp alum from seventh and eighth grades where he performed the trumpet. Since then, he has mastered the drums and now lays it down for The River Arkansas. He also is quite the numeric genius that has a doctorate in math from CU Boulder. 

The board of Society Hall, a 501c-3 non-profit organization, invites you to another musical evening with The River Arkansas Sunday, Oct. 13.