‘Pat’s Place’ House Concerts enliven Hot Springs music scene

  • Pat DeSmet’s cat Chowder enjoys greeting guests to the year-round house concerts held either inside his home, or outside weather permitting. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    Pat DeSmet’s cat Chowder enjoys greeting guests to the year-round house concerts held either inside his home, or outside weather permitting. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
  • The “orange room” accumulates the many objects given DeSmet over the decades since he bought his first orange item: a case for sound equipment. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    The “orange room” accumulates the many objects given DeSmet over the decades since he bought his first orange item: a case for sound equipment. Photo by Beth Bogart/Fall River County Herald Star
    HOT SPRINGS – To call Pat DeSmet a music lover would be as great an understatement as describing him as a ‘colorful character.’ The South Dakota native retired to the Hot Brook Canyon hills, where he designed and built a home and outdoor performance space — emboldened with orange — to host his “house concerts,” opportunities to hear live music in an intimate setting.“I lo...

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