Our dear Amanda Jones (see left and below) gathers her strength from her family and all the love that everyone has been showing her from around the globe through the Internet. She currently has a computer that is on its last legs and hasn’t been doing quite so well lately. The Richness in collaboration with Etrain (Elliott Yamin’s fanbase) has thought of giving her something back for being such an inspiration and for showing such courage by raising funds so that she may have a new laptop. This can be considered as a get well present for her.

Please help us raise enough for this project. Any excess amount received will be given to her to help with medical expenses. Donate by clicking on the ChipIn button on the widget on the left. If you may, please visit her page by clicking on her picture on the left or the one above and leave her some encouraging words.

Thank you everyone!

Chris’ first single “All Alone” is now available on iTunes and Amazon.com! Even if you may have the leaked version, make sure you still buy the finished single. Buy yourself a copy, and gift your friends with it too.

Keep on supporting Chris Richardson!

The Edy’s tour is alive and well. Chris has seven tour dates remaining including today’s day #2 appearance in Seattle. If you’re going to Tampa on the 25th-26th and would like to hand out flyers that feature Chris Rich’s MySpace address and contact information for The Richness, please drop me a note today at Storie@therichness.net. Also April is right around the corner, so you Chris Rich fans in Charlotte and VA Beach can place your order today for the free flyers to hand out as well.

In addition, Chris has been signing our very own calendars on the tour. What makes these calendars so special is that these pictures have been submitted by YOU, the fans! We only have eight (8) calendars left so make sure you grab yours today by sending $18 to finance@therichness.net. You can do this by signing on to your individual PayPal account and clicking on the “Send Money” option tab. Make sure you include your shipping address and we will get that calendar out to you within 24 hours.

And as always, make sure you sign up on our forum. All who sign up automatically become members of The Richness Fan Club. In the forums, we are covering the Edy’s Tour as well as discussing the current season of American Idol. We are also gearing up for a massive radio campaign in an effort to promote All Alone. In the very near future, we will be creating flyers to promote the single to radio stations and to the general public. So join us on the boards today and become a member of one of the closest families in cyber space!

In celebration of Chris’ new single “All Alone” and for THE RICHNESS being together for over a year now, we will be having a “party” on the forums Sunday, March 16 from 7pm-9pm EST! So be sure to stop by and check it out, make new friends and hear the latest Chris news.

The Day After The Celebration
Mon, 17 March 2008

Last night’s party on The Richness boards was a smash! Thanks to everyone for joining us in chat on the boards to celebrate one year together as The Richness as well as Chris’ single “All Alone” coming into fruition.

We also would like to sincerely thank Chris’ dad, The DR himself (Danny Richardson) for coming by and celebrating with us. Our very own Meames captured The DR’s chat with The Richness and it is now posted in the forum in the “PARTY THREAD” in the General Chris Discussion sub-forum. So get there right away and see what you missed!

The DR told us that Chris’ single should be hitting iTunes and the airwaves VERY soon. So make sure you request it at your local radio stations. Let’s make Chris #1 as he deserves to be!

Big thanks to Mandy (Meames) for being The Richness Sponsor of month for March.

Our message boards are free, however, to have a more professional, clean look we have to pay every month to have ads removed. Thanks to everyone who has stepped up and helped us have the ad’s removed for the rest of 2008!

Thanks Shanna & Michelle for getting the shout-out! Here is Shanna’s explination of what’s going on in this video: “I thought he was done talking and said “Thanks” and turned to Michelle to say something about the painting. Well he heard me and began to rant on about not telling him what to say and laughing and Michelle and I were fighting back telling him that we weren’t.”

Chris Singing “All Alone”

The giant Rich Chrispy Treat they made for Chris!

The 2 crazies with Chris! Haha just kidding, thank you guys for bringing back all the Chris goodies!

For more fan experiences, pictures and video’s go to: Forums > Tour Updates > Edys/Dreyers Promo Tour!

Chris Rich Calendars are now for sale! The cost is $18 and includes shipping. The calendars run March 2008 – March 2009. Chris has also been signing the calendars on the Dreyer’s tour and loves them, so if you are interested, please send money through PayPal to: finance@therichness.net along with your name and address. Snail mail is an option in certain situations so contact us for details. There is a very limited number of calendars so be sure to get yours before they run out! Also thanks again to everyone who submitted photo’s and congrats to those whose pictures were used in the calendar.

The Richness has had some flyers done to pass out at the Dreyer’s Promo tour, these are free so if you will be attending one of the stops and want to pass out flyers to help promote Chris and The Richness please contact: Storie@therichness.net! These will be shipped in increments of 10 & shipping is free.
Here is the flyer design:

Thanks to Melissa (creativemind1281) for designing these!

After Chris had gotten the painting we received this via The Richness MySpace:

Thank YOU Chris for being an amazing artist and wonderful person, we couldn’t be happier supporting and promoting you on your musical journey! “The Richness has your back!!”

Thank you DR for these pictures of Chris with the painting! :smile:

Artist Information:
Graphics by Susan Fender of NY, NY.
Represented by Riverview Gallery.
1 High Street, Portsmouth, VA. (www.riverviewgallery.biz)

For Chris’ birthday The Richness put together three seperate parts in hope’s to get EVERYONE involved in his present.

Part One: Fan Sign Video
We asked for everyone to send in pictures holding birthday messages to Chris or just send in your pictures with Chris. And this was the end result:

Part Two: The Traveling Card
We thought a hand signed card was more sentimental than a list of printed names, so we sent a birthday card all across the United States for members to sign. It was started in VA and ended in VA. Thanks to firstmate for delivering the card to The DR for us!

Past Three: The BIG Gift
The Richness wanted to get something out of the ordinary, something Chris would look at years later and say “The Richness gave that to me” Everyone who donated to make this gift possible was named in a special birthday message attached to the gift, along with their email, city and state.

This is a one of a kind, Andy Warhol inspired peice of art.

The DR (Chris’ dad) with the painting. Big thanks to The DR for helping us in the delivery of the painting and the birthday card!

Artist Information:
Graphics by Susan Fender of NY, NY.
Represented by Riverview Gallery.
1 High Street, Portsmouth, VA. (www.riverviewgallery.biz)

And finally, Meames, Thank you for being the “ring leader” of this and setting this project into motion. It started with a few idea’s in chat and you took charge, contacted the artist and made this happen! THANK YOU from all of us! We love you!

We’ve experienced some technical problems on the site and in result we’ve lost all of our posted news in 2008! We are working on getting everything back up from this year, as well as the latest Dreyer’s Promo Tour goodies so keep checking back.