“Every year I look forward to The UMS,” Swallow Hill Music’s Outreach Coordinator Michael John McKee says of The Underground Music Showcase. “It’s one of the best parts of the summer for the Denver music scene.” When it comes to...
“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...
