Songwriter, banjo player, educator and author Dick Weissman has been a good friend and staple of our community since Swallow Hill’s founding. In the fall of 2019 we were honored to be inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in the same class as Dick. Dick is set...
Swallow Hill audiences know Tony Furtado as an always-restless and inventive genre-hopping musician. They also know that no matter how many times they’ve seen him in concert, they can expect something new and different from him every time he visits Daniels Hall,...
Long before catchall terms like Americana and Alt-Country became well-worn, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band blended their Southern California roots rock with some of country’s most hallowed songs and performers to record Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Whether the world...
Dom Flemons is hard to describe in just a few words. For the singer, songwriter, folklorist, musicians’ advocate and podcast host, however, “The American Songster” is just fine. Since co-founding the Grammy Award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops in...
Hailing from Virginia, but now Baltimore-based, Americana duo The Honey Dewdrops play Tuft Theatre at Swallow Hill Music on Friday, August 26. The pair might readily draw comparisons to Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, especially when Laura Wortman’s big voice...
