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...
When Phil Wiggins and George Kilby Jr. share a stage there’s more than music going on. Sure, audiences hear great music from these genre-hopping veterans, but as George tells it, you’ll also get to sit in on one of their conversations. When holding such a...
