Denver – Swallow Hill is proud to introduce to the community Jim Butler, the newly elected President of the Board of Directors. Jim Butler moved to Denver in 1972 after graduating from Brown University. He attended law school at the University of Denver and joined Holme Roberts & Owen LLP after graduating. He spent most of his 30-year legal career at HRO practicing tax law, reluctantly putting aside his singer/songwriter/rock star career for the time being.

Jim served on the Mile High United Way Board of Trustees for several years and chaired that board in 2003 and 2004. Jim retired from legal practice in 2004 and since then has spent a lot of time with a guitar in his hands, sometimes embarrassing himself at the Swallow Hill monthly Hootenanny. You can get a sample of his work at daltonbutler.com. After spearheading a successful sponsorship drive for the first Folk & Roots Music Festival at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House last March, Jim looks forward to helping Swallow Hill raise its visibility in the Front Range as a source of music for everyone and as a top cultural institution in the region.

About Swallow Hill Music Association:
Helping people make music since 1979 years, 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 60 music instructors involved in more than 240 adult classes and 70 children's classes annually.

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