Dal richards biography of william
Dal richards biography of william
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Dal Richards
Dal Richards | |
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Richards in March 2009 | |
| Birth name | Dallas Murray Richards |
| Born | (1918-01-05)5 January 1918 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | 31 December 2015(2015-12-31) (aged 97) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Genres | Swing |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor, bandleader, musician |
| Instrument(s) | Saxophone, clarinet |
| Years active | 1940–2015 |
Musical artist
Dallas Murray Richards,[1]CM, OBC (5 January 1918 – 31 December 2015) was a Canadian big band leader.[2]
Richards and his band performed in the Lower Mainland, at PNE bandstand and the annual New Year celebration at the Bayshore Hotel.
The band played 79 consecutive New Year's Eve concerts until his death[3] on 31 December 2015.[2]
Richards led his band for many years in a weekly CBC Radio show broadcast nationally from the Panorama Roof Ballroom of the Hotel Vancouver.[4] He hosted a weekly one-hour show on radio station CI