| Swallow Hill Music is excited to announce the return of its Indiewood Street Festival presented by Downtown Englewood. The one-day festival takes place Saturday, June 6 in Downtown Englewood from 1 to 7 pm, with gates opening at noon. This year’s festival features a headlining set by Sam Burchfield, who is celebrated for his genre-blurring mix of Americana, psychedelia, indie folk, and Southern rock, and comes on the heels of last year’s highly successful and sold out inaugural edition. “We have a strong tradition of successful street festivals in our history,” Swallow Hill Music CEO Jessy Clark said. “And last year’s Indiewood proved they are a core part of what we do. We were thrilled by how it turned out!” Clark’s enthusiasm was matched by festivalgoers as well as local music lovers. TICKETS: Get your tickets to Swallow Hill Music’s Indiewood here |
| “The festival was an absolute hit for the scene – we can always use more music festivals – and showcased not just our great local talent, but the magic that can happen when a city and nonprofit collaborate to throw an event that really activates the community and uplifts artists,” Westword raved in its Indiewood review. Seeking to cement its place as a summertime tradition in the Denver metro area, joining Burchfield as performers is an action-packed lineup of national, Colorado, and Denver bands that will get the crowd dancing and discovering their new favorite band. – Hailing from Austin, TX, The Animeros create a highly danceable sound by putting musical traditions like bolero, psychedelic rock, and cumbia into a sonic blender to create an energetic sound all their own. – Frail Talk, from Fort Collins, buoy their dreamy-as-a-summer-day harmonies and melodies with pitter-pattering grooves that recall the innocence and heartbreak of first crushes. – Also from Fort Collins, psych-rock outfit The Crooked Rugs will flat out rock your world, but their songwriting chops are sure to fill your ears with enough hooks to leave you humming long after the dancing has stopped. – Denver’s own Bluebook kicks off the day with their enigmatic, otherworldly, and thoroughly haunting indie rock. “This festival feels like it was made for Downtown Englewood,” Hilarie Portell, Executive Director of Downtown Englewood, said. “It’s creative, it’s independent, it’s inclusive, and it brings people into the heart of our downtown to experience the energy we’re building here. We’re proud to present Indiewood with Swallow Hill Music and help celebrate the artists, local businesses, and community that define our downtown vibe.” As a nonprofit organization, Swallow Hill relies on ticket sales – including those for the Indiewood Street Festival – to support its vision of expanding access to the arts. Get complete details below, and thank you for supporting live music with Swallow Hill Music and Downtown Englewood! EVENT DETAILS Swallow Hill Music’s Indiewood Street Festival Presented by Downtown Englewood Saturday, June 6, 2026 in Downtown Englewood Noon Doors 1-7pm Live music FESTIVAL TICKET PRICES $15: Swallow Hill Members & Englewood Residents $20: General Admission – Advance $25: General Admission – Day of Show $5: Kids Ages 4 – 12 Kids 3 and Under are free ABOUT THE ARTISTS Sam Burchfield The title of Sam Burchfield’s latest album, Nature Speaks, is both a statement of belief and an instruction: to listen carefully, to feel the world move through you, and to heed its loving nudge. Recorded in just five days at Studio 1093 in Athens, Georgia, the album is Burchfield’s most stripped-down and spirit-forward to date. “Just before we recorded, I was in New York City on tour,” Burchfield shares. “My wife was at home, pregnant with our second child. I was taking a walk through Washington Square Park, feeling this hyper-vivid awareness of the beauty of the city, and at the same time, this intense pain of being away from my family.” In that moment, a man sitting at a public space piano began playing the song Burchfield’s partner walked down the aisle to at their wedding. Coincidence or cosmic wink, it stirred Burchfield’s soul. “It felt like walking through a portal.” For Burchfield, like many of us, it took a moment of poignant distance to illuminate his place of utmost belonging—back in the Blue Ridge Mountains, among his family. And with that radical clarity came a revitalized artistic confidence, a turning point in accepting and trusting his own musical intuition, the intuition from which Nature Speaks beautifully emerges. The Animeros With musical notes that span well beyond genres like bolero, psychedelic, and cumbia, The Animeros not only make their audience hit the dance floor, but they also invite their listeners and tastemakers alike to a glimpse of their rich cultural upbringing. The group who is made up of Nick Tozzo (drummer and percussionist), Nicolas Sanchez (bassist), and Mauro Lopez (guitarist) craft a genre-blending sound, that drifts between the lush jungles of Colombia, the palm-lined streets of 1960s coastal Mexico, and the dusty cantinas of West Texas. The band’s influences include Sanchez’s Colombian roots, growing up listening to his parents’ beloved salsa and cumbia; Lopez’s parents’ Mexican and American discography, which spanned from traditional Tejano to improvised jazz; and Tozzo’s love for jazz and salsa music, the latter stemming from his college years, leading him to study and live in Colombia to experience music greats first-handedly. All of this, paired with their undeniable chemistry and meshed with their now hometown Austin’s innovative creative sounds has led them to create the unique sonic movement that is The Animeros, a name inspired by Colombian shamans who would usher lost souls to their peace. The Animeros are on the cusp of reaching new audiences all over the globe. More singles are coming with a new album on the way in 2026 via Easy Eye Sound. Frail Talk Formed in the foothills of Northern Colorado in early 2020, Alex Woodchek and Cor Wright of Frail Talk are creating a blooming universe of squiggly indie music for squiggly people. Like the kind surprise of a backyard garden, their songs spring up from the dirt with folk roots, soft pop colors, and burgeoning lyricism ready to welcome every listener with daydream-love. In August of 2024, Frail Talk released their sophomore album, Microspirit, recorded in seven days of heat-sweat-friend-magic in Silsbee, TX alongside producers Hannah Read (Lomelda), Tommy Read and with the help of Tobias Bank (drums) and Nathaniel Riley (bass). With more attention to the emotion and substance of sound than ever but with the same honesty Frail Talk has always valued, Microspirit touches on the landscape of the queer divinity in all things, and world speaking through bugs, dogs, sunsets and friends. Through the art of mashing folk-pop sensibilities with strange-space-synthetic-sounds, Frail Talk offers a landscape where one’s self, surrounding, and experiences are as much a part of the songs as the music itself. The Crooked Rugs Hailing from Fort Collins, these space cowboys are your musical guides on a journey to a universe of mystic psychedelic color. The Colorado quintet takes the compulsory ingredients of modern rock band instrumentation and creates something wonderfully foreign. Echoes of psych, prog, and garage rock resound, but each song is clearly the result of diligent experimentation. Founded in 2019, this band of brothers transitions smoothly through a variety of tunes to create an unforgettable experience that will take you on a journey through space and time. Releasing 5 albums in the past 4 years, the Rugs are known for their prolific output, telepathic connections, and filling the room with a swath of joyous emotion. Bluebook Enigmatic, otherworldly, and thoroughly affecting, Bluebook is the haunting apocalyptic lounge project of Julie Davis, Jess Parsons, Hayley Helmericks, and Anna Morsett. NPR describes Davis’ music as offering “beautifully structured dynamics and captivating sonic twists,” and Denver Westword describes Bluebook’s album, The Astronaut’s Wife, as “a jewel… superb… phenomenal” and describes their live show as providing “dark and melodic bass lines meshing with synths and harmonic vocals, creating a musical landscape that makes you feel as if you’re in a dream.” The Denver Post Reverb says Bluebook “gives haunting, holy voice to some of the darkest spots of imagination.” |