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Special two-night event with multi-faceted songstress Cheryl Wheeler, award winner Gretchen Peters

Swallow Hill Music presents a special two-night performance with songwriter and humorist Cheryl Wheeler, and special guest Gretchen Peters, Friday and Saturday, December 4 and 5 at 8 p.m.
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Cliff Eberhardt and Chris Daniels kick off "Buy Local Week" with special concert

Swallow Hill Music and the Mile High Business Alliance present Cliff Eberhardt and Chris Daniels in a special event to kickoff the annual "Buy Local Week," a campaign designed to promote and impact the economic well being of the region, on Saturday, November 6, starting at 6 p.m. [tickets]

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Swallow Hill is a nonprofit that will celebrate 30 years in 2009! Come talk about its its history, connect with other volunteers and other stuff within the broader sense of community here.

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Richard Reed

Eric Clapton Made Easy

Let me start by saying It's not easy to make Eric Clapton's music easy to play. Eric Clapton is a master of his musical art form. To begin with, he was born tremendously talented. Then he had the right influences as a young boy and practiced his !?*&^! off. When he started to play professionally (at age 16) he got to the point where he was playing guitar most of his waking life. He would go to a gig at 6 pm and when he was finished with that gig he went to another gig that same night. (read… Continue

Posted by Richard Reed on September 22, 2009 at 10:27am — 1 Comment

Richard Reed

Robert Johnson Made Easy Workshop

There are several reasons I teach this workshop. The first is accessibility: Thanks to Eric Clapton's unplugged CD that was recorded back in the 90's the vast majority of acoustic blues guitar enthusiasts had a very inspiring rendition of Robert Johnson's music made easily accessible for the first time. By accessible, I mean very playable and readily available by music publishers. Before that you had to dig to find arrangements that were easy to learn and that sounded good. Several very talented… Continue

Posted by Richard Reed on September 22, 2009 at 10:12am

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