Check out "Here To Stay" on my songwriting page--Richard Neal songwriter/Original Music!

I will be conducting a songwriting workshop on Saturday, October 8 at 12:45 at this great event.

My friends Kim & Erick are running the jam tent all weekend and I'll be there to help out. They have a number of cool happenings planned including a songwriter circle, plus meet-and-greet showcase sessions with a bunch of excellent artists including my buddies G Rockwell, Nick DePuy and Rick Reyes.

See you there!

I'll be conducting workshops at the CT Folk and Black Bear Americana festivals this autumn.

Saturday September 10 in New Haven at 2:45 and Sunday the 11th at 1 for CT Folk, and Saturday October 8 at 11 for BB.

See you there...

My buddy Rick Reyes has conceived of a brilliant musical project: Latin Americana.

We fuse the folk musics of North America and Puerto Rico--check it out...

Watch the shows page for our performances--one of which will be at the the 2022 CT Folk Festival in September.

...on the Sacred Heart University production of "The Other Josh Cohen"--I'm playing guitar in the pit.

Shows are over the next two weekends--info available here: https://www.edgertoncenter.org/theatre_arts.php

I'll be conducting songwriting workshops this weekend at the Black Bear Americana Music Festival.

Friday 5:30, Saturday 11:15 AM, and Sunday at 4:30.

Hope to see you there...

In addition to all the gigs, a couple interesting events are on the horizon.

I will be conducting 3 songwriting workshops at the Black Bear Americana Festival over the weekend of October 8 - 10--watch the site for more info.

Also in October I will be in the pit band for the Sacred Heart University Theater Arts Department production of "The Other Josh Cohen". This group always presents a great show, watch the site for more info.

...temperature-wise and musically.

Among many others I've been performing with 2 of my fave songwriters, bluegrasser Mike Burns and the great Latin American artist Rick Reyes.

Mike has put together a trio consisting of me on dobro and mandolin, Mike, and bassist Lester Wilson. The set mostly features Mike's original compositions plus a few choice covers. This act cooks!

Rick bills his act as "Latin Americana", a melding of North American and Puerto Rican folk music styles. This is something to behold, a bunch of Rick's originals among a selection of covers sung in both Spanish and English. I  play 5-string banjo and mandolin.

Watch the "Shows" page for concert info...

Finally some action: the summer is beginning to heat up--literally and figuratively!

Two performances next weekend and a few more in the coming months.

Watch the "Shows" page for details...

A new one--take a listen!