In 2018 Laura Veirs released her 10th studio album, The Lookout. The album confirmed what her fans already know: that she is a constantly evolving singer-songwriter with a knack for joining the eternal and the ephemeral to capture life’s most sweeping moments....
The ukulele is a musical Rorschach test. With its small body and four strings, the understated instrument also offers musicians of all stripes a broad palette with which to freely express themselves, be it traditional, experimental, or something in-between. Here at...
As the creative force behind the popular Jews Do concert series, and leader of the klezmer fusion band The Lost Tribe, Hal Aqua is well known to Swallow Hill and Denver audiences. This has been a particularly busy month for Hal. Last week’s Jews Do Who Knew?...
“It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell,” The New York Times wrote in 1991. In the ensuing decades the guitarist and composer has lived up to that praise time and time again...
“Why is cowboy music important?” Swallow Hill Music Instructor Mike Jagel asked rhetorically as he looked out from under his ten gallon hat. “There’s a lot of reasons. To me the most important reason is I love the music.” “The...
