“Doing something with a friend makes it more fun.” This is how Swallow Hill Fiddle/Violin Instructor April Cooley describes why friendship is a key component to her new kids classes, Fiddle With Friends. As someone who started playing the violin in...
Maria Isabelle holds her phone closely to her ear and listens intently. She is playing a recently-recorded voice memo of her five-year-old son Nathan singing from the back seat of the family car. Though she tries, she cannot make out the language he is singing in....
“The guys I’ve got playing with me can really play anything, from jazz to bluegrass to pop,” mandolinist Jacob Jolliff says of his band. “We mix it up pretty good.” “The Jacob Jolliff Band is still definitely a bluegrass...
At the end of a recent Paste Studio session, Boston-based folk trio Lula Wiles share a new tune called “It’s Cool, We’re Cool, Everything’s Cool.” With its old school country twang and lyrics that insert modern technology into age old...
“Students are bound to learn something new about themselves and feel encouraged to keep writing songs!” Swallow Hill Instructor and songwriter Deborah Collins says. Deborah is talking about the launch of the Young Songwriters Showcase, which takes place at...
