Richard Pomeroy got his first guitar when he was in the third grade. His mother had enrolled him for trombone lessons at school and took him downtown to Sherman and Clay Music to buy him a trombone. But he saw a Spanish-made, steel-string guitar up on the wall that caught his eye. While his mother was buying him the trombone, he was on the other side of the store spending his allowance on the guitar and a how-to-play guitar book.

He played that guitar in the privacy of his own room until he graduated from High School. On only one occasion did he ever take that guitar anywhere. In the sixth grade his teacher asked him to bring it to school. He did that, and explained to the class that it was made in Spain out of mahogany, with a spruce top. It had a tail piece with a floating bridge. Then his teacher asked him to play it, and he froze up. He loved to play his guitar, but he was too shy to play it before an audience.

Today you would never believe that he had ever been so shy, the way he blossoms in front of a live audience, whether it is an audience of less than fifty, or in the thousands. He has fun when he is on stage, and so does his audience. He is known for his spontaneous wit and large arsenal of one-liners.

In his college days at Central Washington State College, he founded a Christian coffeehouse off-campus and brought in Christian folk groups to sing and minister. With Lee Olmsted he formed his own Christian folk group called "The Street Christians" to handle some of the programming. A local Christian Rock band called "His Fish" took an equal share of the programming. Then he also relied on Christian Groups from Seattle, like "The New Men", "The Glorious Liberty" and "The Brethren" for guest appearances.

Besides doing the male vocal parts, Richard plays the accompaniment on a dreadnaught guitar hand-made in 1971, an old Gibson 12-string guitar made in 1955, a Fender Telecaster, which he plays through a Roland guitar-synth, or a lute, which he had made for himself in 2006.

He founded "The Stillwater Retreat" in 1971. Though three of the members of the band left the group in December of that year, he and his wife, Terry, have carried on the ministry as a duo. Right now he is building up the group again by auditioning new musicians to join and he is creating new arrangements for the group's material.