vailsymposium

Don Watson has more than three decades of making joyful noises from East Vail to Gypsum during a global career that spans from Sydney to Budapest. He performed at the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championship Gala. Don has played with the Vail Valley Band, together with Beth Swearingen and Peter Fontanese, since 1995. He’s written an opera (“Come to the River”), a ballet (“A Place in the Wind”), a musical (“Monk and Elsie”), and has released almost a dozen collections of original songs. He’s performed with Harry Chapin, Livingston Taylor, Michael Martin Murphy and the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Local schools have also benefitted from Watson’s talents as Artist in Residence, teaching young people to sing, perform, play guitar, speak and debate — and fence!