Don Holmes is the founder and owner of HotBlueMusic, a music publisher primarily designed to serve his own music creation. His involvement with the performing arts on a professional level started in 1973, teaching, performing, and writing music. He toured with his college concert choir and was offered the paid position of tour manager during his second year. He then toured full time with WindVoice, a CCM/secular duo, for five years; performed solo, fronted for major artists and had major artists also front for him. He has national FM radio airplay as an artist and songwriter. HotBlueMusic has Don's songs kept or placed on hold each month by major record labels, producers, and the film industry. Don's guitar playing spans the spectrum of rock, country, classical guitar, jazz and fusion. He has regular requests for both live performance and studio session work. His primary goal and that of HotBlueMusic is to write songs and create music for self-release that will also be pitched to the music and film industries.