Denver - Offering her listeners a rare gift of original songs with uncommon depth and beauty, infused with time-honored values of traditional American Music, Diana Jones has been called the new Emily Dickinson. Like Dickinson, Jones' work is shaped by the themes that have run through her life—love, loss, and redemption, all reflected in her latest release, My Remembrance of You. According to the Chicago Tribune, My Remembrance of You is the #1 Country Music Album of the Year, finishing ahead of the 2006 releases by Willie Nelson, Vince Gill and Alan Jackson, heralding it as a "masterwork of depth and grace."

Jones won a songwriting award at the 2006 Kerrville New Folk Contest, and has shared the stage with Martina McBride, Del McCoury Band, Guy Clark, Darrell Scott, Odetta, Old Crow Medicine Show, and John Gorka, among others. The North American Folk Music Alliance honored her with two nominations for its Annual Awards, for Best Emerging Artist and Best Song. Most recently she completed a tour of England and Scotland, where she blew away British fans with her soulful Americana songs.

Jones will be joined by Kevin Welch, another multi-faceted singer/songwriter. Starting off in the honky-tonk circuit, writing songs and doing a few cuts, he was signed by Warner Brothers in 1990 and has released two albums through them, Kevin Welch and Western Beat. In 1994 he got out of the contract with Warner Brothers and started a label with Kieran Kane, Harry Stinson, Mike Henderson and Tammy Rogers called Dead Reckoning Records. They released 21 records over the next 7 years. They also spent these years touring individually as well as together in a collective called A Night Of Reckoning (with Fats Kaplin and Allison Prestwood), hitting spots through the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Europe, and Canada. A Night Of Reckoning ultimately ended its collaboration, but Welch is still doing what he loves, continuing solo as well as with others to put out great music.

Don't miss these rising stars, who will appear at Swallow Hill on Saturday, June 16 at 8 p.m. For tickets visit www.swallowhillmusic.org or call (303) 777-1003. Discounts are available for Swallow Hill members.

About Swallow Hill Music Association:
Helping people make and enjoy 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, Swallow Hill provides a place to celebrate music that is rarely heard elsewhere in the Rocky Mountain Region. Three concert venues house more than 200 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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