About Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore

Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore have been around Swallow Hill for a long time. In fact, Rich was around in 1979 at the close of the Denver Folklore Center’s concert hall on East 17th Ave and then Mollie and Rich met at the newly owned and reopened DFC on April 1, 1981. Mollie was the bookkeeper for the nascent Swallow Hill Music upstairs and Rich worked at Ferretta’s Music up the street. They’ve seen Swallow Hill grow into the world renowned organization it now is and have played too many shows, festivals and benefits for Swallow Hill to count. It will always be their musical home.

In 2025 Mollie and Rich will be performing two consecutive nights at the Tuft Theatre.

On Friday, January 31 they’ll be doing a duo request show and will take requests during that evening during their set. On Saturday, February 1, they’ll be joined by their daughters Brigid and Lucy Moore. Both daughters are accomplished musicians and wonderful singers and you’ll hear the family DNA in full form.

Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore, Northwest Denver residents since 1984, are considered national musical treasures, and their love of American roots music translates into a wide array of styles. They have a fluid ability to make themselves at home in any genre while never sacrificing the essence of the songs they tackle. Mollie won a Grammy for her part in the 1997 recording, True Life Blues, and she is a member of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame.

They have toured all over the world: from Athens, Greece to Athens, Ohio; in tiny villages on the islands of Shetland and Sweden; at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Between them they have 15 CDs to their credit.