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- Steve Smith & Hard Road
Olde Town Pickin' Parlor
Today, July 9 at 7:30pm - Dakota Blonde
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Tomorrow, July 10 at 8:00pm - Ben Bedford & Ember
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Tomorrow, July 10 at 8:00pm - GUITAR BOOT CAMP
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Saturday, July 11 at 11:30am - Blues & Brews on Old South Pea...
Old South Pearl Street
Saturday, July 11 at 12:00pm - Shalom Feivel and Rocky Mounta...
Four Mile Historic Park
Wednesday, July 15 at 6:30pm - It's A Beautiful Day
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Friday, July 17 at 8:00pm - Folk By Association w/Greg Klyma
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Friday, July 17 at 8:00pm - MUSIC FOR THE DYSLEXIC AND LEA...
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Saturday, July 18 at 1:00pm - INTRO TO CLOGGING
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Saturday, July 18 at 1:00pm
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We are in need of volunteers for this Saturday’s Blues & Brews Festival on Old South Pearl Street, featuring the best ....Colorado.... craft beverages and music featuring John Lee Hooker, Jr., Henry B.
Attention Songwriters! Come out and show your skills!
with Christopher McGarry. Attention songwriters! Our monthly gathering gives active songwriters a forum to share songs, have their material critiqued, and get experience perf...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:12:30PM Saturday, October 17th
Location:Swallow Hill
A forum in which to share your songwriting.
with Christopher McGarry. Attention songwriters! Our monthly gathering gives active songwriters a forum to share songs, have their material critiqued, and get experience perf...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:12:30PM Saturday, September 19th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Julie Davis. Learn tools and techniques for overcoming stage fright, whether it is to sing for your family or to perform for strangers. Second half of the workshop is an...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:11:00AM Saturday, October 31st
Location:Swallow Hill
with Michael Stanwood. Learn to create a sound, start circular breathing techniques, and explore vocalizations and rhythms on this traditional Aboriginal instrument. Michael ...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Thursday, September 17th
Location:Swallow Hill
Embrace soulfulness, improvising and vocal texture to your singing.
with Sina McOwens. Find out how to scat like Ella Fitzgerald and hold a tone like Mel Tormé. Learn phrasing, improvising, ornaments (licks and fills), scat singing, vocal tex...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:10:30AM Saturday, September 26th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Sina McOwens. Take a look at the history of women and percussion, and learn some basic playing techniques on conga, bongos and other hand drums. Get over any inhibitions...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:1:00PM Saturday, September 19th
Location:Swallow Hill
Discover what makes Maybelle’s style "tick."
with Christopher McGarry. Maybelle Carter's rhythm and lead guitar playing is the foundation of Americana, old-time, and bluegrass guitar. Learn what makes Maybelle’s style "...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:12:30PM Saturday, September 5th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Christopher McGarry. Look at the rhythm and lead parts of Steve's most popular songs, including Guitar Town, My Old Friend the Blues, Jerusalem and more. Saturday, 10/3...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:12:30PM Saturday, October 3rd
Location:Swallow Hill
An awesome primer for the Delta blues devotee.
with Richard Reed. Sponsored by Colorado Blues Society. Simplified versions of 6 of his most popular tunes arranged by Richard for intermediate fingerpicking blues guitar. A ...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, September 22nd
Location:Swallow Hill
A Funky Camp like No Other!
with Chris Sauthoff. Get the basic training on how to make yourself a better guitar player. During this hard-core guided practice session, you will learn guitar logic, scales...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:11:30AM Saturday, October 10th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Chris Sauthoff. Learn all about amps by playing them! Cover compressors, choruses, flangers, distortion units, and delays. Test-drive Chris’ various amps, effects, 24-ch...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:2:00PM Saturday, October 17th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Richard Reed. Sponsored by Colorado Blues Society. Easy arrangements prepared by Richard that include the best of Eric Clapton. Tips, tricks and chords help make the son...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, October 6th
Location:Swallow Hill
The daring sounds of Pink Floyd.
with David Bailey. Break out the blacklight posters and turn on The Wizard of Oz as we venture into the most epic of Pink Floyd albums. Classics like Money, Us and Them, and ...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:3:00PM Saturday, October 10th
Location:Swallow Hill
Sing your heart out while accompanying yourself.
with Christopher McGarry. Learn simple techniques to be a better singer while fixing your strumming challenges. Be less awkward at doing both and be more confident in your ab...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Aaron McCloskey. Learn how to solo and improvise in a wide range of musical styles. Perfect if you know how to play but are intimidated, or have dabbled in soloing but l...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:8:00PM Thursday, September 10th
Location:Swallow Hill
You have the box; just add a few more tools!
with David Bailey. The contents of the rock toolbox are open position chords, the minor pentatonic scale, and power chords. These simple tools helped to build most of rock hi...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:8:00PM Monday, September 14th
Location:Swallow Hill
The 7 Modes are everywhere!
with Chris Sauthoff. From the Beatles to Miles Davis, from Zeppelin to Appalachian folk, the modes are everywhere. Learn these 7 scales that all share the same notes from the...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Monday, September 14th
Location:Swallow Hill
Learn the blues, Texas and Chicago style!
with Chris Sauthoff. Sponsored by Colorado Blues Society. From Texans Freddie King, Lightning Hopkins and Stevie Ray Vaughan to Chicago's Buddy Guy, Willie Dixon and the whol...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, September 9th
Location:Swallow Hill
Learn techniques of fingerstyle and rhythmic patterns.
with Giannina Ashe. Use open position chords to further develop your fingerstyle technique with new rhythmic patterns. Specific technique includes arpeggios of the right hand...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:6:00PM Thursday, September 10th
Location:Swallow Hill
Boost your rhythm playing with muted strums and alternating bass strumming.
with Aaron McCloskey. Discover how to enhance your rhythm playing with muted strums, syncopation, alternating bass strumming, and accents. Play in different time signatures, ...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:8:00PM Monday, September 14th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Jeff Rady. A look at popular artists from Roger McGuinn to George Harrison and James Honeyman Scott (Pretenders) involving up-down picking patterns, repertoire, and theo...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:Swallow Hill
Grasp the chord progressions and form of classic jazz tunes.
with Giannina Ashe. Practice and perform common 7th chords and strumming patterns from standard jazz tunes. Learn the chord progressions and form of classic jazz tunes. Chord...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:5:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:Swallow Hill
The Kit that will change your life!
with Jen Lapinski. Study up on the best of the independent (indie) music scene. Learn the chord progressions, time signatures, lyrics, and instrumentation of innovative artis...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:7:00PM Thursday, September 10th
Location:Swallow Hill
Explore the Groovy side of the Guitar.
with Chris Sauthoff. Find that James Brown and P-Funk signature sound. Learn the chords, syncopated rhythm patterns, and melodies of funk. Citrus is a master of the music and...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:2:00PM Sunday, September 13th
Location:Swallow Hill
Amplify your repertoire with songs by Billie Holiday, Madonna, Lauryn Hill, Nina Simone and Bjork!
with Jen Lapinski. Delve in the catalog of amazing music by female songwriters and performers. Build up a solid repertoire of songs by Billie Holiday, Blondie, Madonna, Alani...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:1:00PM Sunday, September 13th
Location:Swallow Hill
with Christopher McGarry. Pick up where we left off in Fingerstyle I. Move closer towards full melody and bass independence along with a great exploration of the keys D and A...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:5:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:Swallow Hill
Spice up your guitar playing with some fingerpicking!
with Christopher McGarry. Spice up your guitar playing with some fingerpicking! Look at songs by Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Cotten, Townes van Zandt, Mississippi John Hurt and othe...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:Swallow Hill
Pull off Django’s famous phrases and tunes while learning Gypsy swing chords.
with Chris Sauthoff. Find out to how to pull off Django’s famous phrases and tunes such as Minor Swing, Dark Eyes and Sweet Georgia Brown. Your new hot licks will be complime...
Host:Swallow Hill Music Association
Time:6:00PM Tuesday, September 8th
Location:Swallow Hill
Swallow Hill Music Association 2NITE: Americana/bluegrass with STEVE SMITH & HARD ROAD at the Olde Town Pickin' Parlor in Arvada: http://tinyurl.com/m932q3