Swallow Hill Blog
News for our community, artist and teacher interviews,
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Phil Wiggins & George Kilby Jr. bring tradition and modern sounds to Swallow Hill Music
When Phil Wiggins and George Kilby Jr. share a stage there's more than music going on. Sure, audiences hear great music from these...
Tony Furtado on the banjo, sculpture, and Colorado
Swallow Hill audiences know Tony Furtado as an always-restless and inventive genre-hopping musician. They also know that no matter how...
Hadley Hooper discusses Swallow Hill, Denver, and the arts
What is it about Swallow Hill Music and artists named Hooper? In 2017 and 2018, our school catalog featured original artwork from...
Music as a Second Language: Bilingual rockstar Mister G
Davey, Do You See The Light? Songwriter Jim Broyles discusses his folk musical
In August, 1963, a coal mine in Sheppton, Pennsylvania collapsed. The ensuing efforts to rescue three miners trapped hundreds of feet...
Westword’s List of Colorado’s Best Indoor Music Venues Includes Swallow Hill
3hattrio: “Totally different and defies most categories”
Hailing from southern Utah near Zion National Park, 3hattrio, in their words, "plays American Desert Music." In its brief existence, the...
Westword’s Ten of the Best Colorado Bluegrass Artists List
Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks, and Avourneen’s tribute concert at Swallow Hill Music
Bob Dylan and folk music are so firmly entwined it is sometimes easy to forget that he's every bit the the shape-shifting pop star...