Denver – For those who missed TommyFestWest last year featuring guitar great Tommy Emmanuel, they won’t want to miss Tommy Emmanuel in concert this time around on Saturday, September 23rd at 8 p.m. at the First Church of Divine Science (1400 Williams, Denver). The Australian living guitar legend and Certified Guitar Player Tommy Emmanuel, praised by the late Chet Atkins as “one of the greatest players on the planet,” returns to astound Swallow Hill audiences once again. He is a born-performer with four platinum albums and four gold albums to his credit along with numerous other awards, including “Best Guitarist” from Rolling Stone and Juke magazines, a Grammy Nomination with Chet Atkins for their album The Day Fingerpickers Took Over the World, and the rare title “Certified Guitar Player (CGP)” currently bestowed on only two other guitar players in the world: Jerry Reed and John Knowles.

Along with other accolades, Tommy was inducted into the Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame in Kentucky in 2005. In fact, Jerry Reed, CGP, has said of Tommy “I’m gonna steal all his guitars, the kid’s entirely too good.” The Washington Post raves, “A guitar isn’t always a guitar in [Tommy] Emmanuel’s extraordinary hands.” He has appeared as a featured artist for the closing ceremonies of the Olympics in Sydney Australia in 2000 and continues to tour throughout the world performing for enthusiastic audiences. Opening for Tommy will be Australia’s king of country music, Troy Cassar-Daly.

For tickets visit swallowhillmusic.org or call (303) 777-1003. Discounts are available for Swallow Hill members. This press release is also available at http://www.swallowhillmusic.org/newsroom/newsmain2006.htm.

About Swallow Hill Music Association:
Helping people make music since 1979, Swallow Hill Music Association is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the United States as a source for folk, roots and acoustic music. With more than 2,100 members—some of whom are also volunteers—, Swallow Hill provides a place to celebrate music that is rarely heard elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Region. Three concert venues house more than 150 performances a year, featuring some of the world's great artists as well as up-and-coming new talent. The Julie Davis Music School at Swallow Hill provides a valuable and affordable extra-curricular educational resource to the community with more than 50 music instructors involved in more than 240 adult classes and 70 children's classes annually.

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