Denver – In past visits, “Folk-rock goddess” Catie Curtis has thrilled Swallow Hill’s audiences with her emotional vocals and well-crafted songs of social commentary. This time she returns with a new album and an internationally award winning song. She has been praised by the Boston Herald as “One of the melodic delights of our age.” Catie will be performing songs from her new release Long Night Moon. The new CD features the song “People Look Around,” co-written with Mark Erelli, which won the 2005 International Songwriting Competition. No small feat, the song was chosen over 15,000 other entries from 82 different countries. Catie said of the song, “Mark Erelli and I wrote this song after Hurricane Katrina, to express our belief that government should exist to serve the common good, not to divide us.” The Boston Globe praises Catie and the new album, “Any fool can write a love-gone wrong song; it takes a real genius to write a love-gone-right one. No urban songwriter does that better than Curtis. On her hushed and deeply felt new CD, Long Night Moon, she sings grippingly about love's better moments…. Like [Woody] Guthrie, she can fine-focus political complexities into a stark, telling couplet: ‘If they can keep us fighting about marriage and God/ There'll be no one left to notice if our leaders do their jobs.’ ”

Her career has been the subject of a documentary film released last January, Tangled Stories, by Rob Millis. Rolling Stone hails her, “With a clear, deceptively gentle voice, she can turn on a dime and thrill the listener with unforeseen power and emotion. Intricate acoustic picking sometimes slants its way into jazz territory, recalling Joan Armatrading, and her staunchly feminist messages further the comparison. But Curtis is very much an original, and a refreshing departure from the stale formula offered by many of today's singer- songwriters.” Award winning singer-songwriter, Mark Erelli will open for Catie performing songs from his recent CD Hope & Other Casualties.

For tickets visit swallowhillmusic.org or call (303) 777-1003. Discounts are available for Swallow Hill members.

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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