On the first Friday of each month, Swallow Hill Music hosts Musical Memories, a class created in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association. The low key class is designed for people experiencing memory loss. “Anybody is welcome in this class,”...
“I am a working class musician.” With these simple words Ellis Paul described himself at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference in November 2015. “I want to talk about basically where I’ve come from and why it worked for me. I’ve done 5,000...
Editor’s Note: Swallow Hill’s James Cook interviewed John Craigie and wrote this article. Somewhere in Portland, Oregon, hidden under a wash of pine trees, John Craigie is on his porch playing guitar with his friends. That is, when he isn’t playing...
In 2016 Swallow Hill Music introduced its Little Swallows early music education program at McGlone Academy in Denver’s Montebello neighborhood. Little Swallows is our general music program that introduces preschool-aged children to the world of music-making. At...
On this episode of Between Two Banjos, Dustin and Barry talk about Tom Petty, Robert Ellis and Courtney Hartman’s tribute to John Hartford, One Epic Night: A Fundraiser for Swallow Hill’s Educational Outreach Programs, Hiss Golden Messenger, A Jam Supreme...
