Katharine Richardson
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Co-Founder
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Richlynn Group
Katharine Richardson is a co-founder and partner at Richlynn Group, a Nashville-based marketing and public relations firm that helps music products companies such as Martin Guitars share their stories. Her love for the music business showed early. While studying music business at New York University, she took on internships every year in record companies, PR firms, and music publishing companies. Katharine went on to work in the rock department at William Morris in New York and later moved to Nashville where she worked for Capitol Records with artists Garth Brooks and Tanya Tucker. She was an ardent explorer of the early internet and designed websites for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Nashville Network, The Grand Ole Opry and Country Music Television. She was a director of marketing at Gibson Guitar, before co-founding Richlynn. Katharine has materially contributed to NAMM for many years by supporting NAMM Media Day, bringing in speakers for NAMM U and organizing panels at The NAMM Show. In her NAMM Oral History interview, she fervently spoke about the camaraderie and many benefits of the Women of NAMM Leadership Summit, which she attended in October 2026.
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