Denver — Swallow Hill is pleased to welcome two amazing artists in one night. Americana pioneer John Stewart will headline the Daniels Hall stage at Swallow Hill while award-winning folkie Andrew McKnight performs in Swallow Hill's Tuft Theater. Both performances are on Saturday, September 29 at 8 p.m.

John Stewart's name traverses the span of myriad generations: to the baby boomers of the '50s, his name is synonymous with the Kingston Trio, whose early '60s hits like "Tom Dooley" and "Greenback Dollar" brought folk music from the coffeehouses to the concert halls, campuses, and radio play lists. To the mid-'60s teenyboppers, Stewart was the pen behind the Monkees' #1 hit, "Daydream Believer." To rock fans in the '70s, he was that friend of Fleetwood Mac's who had a Top 5 single, "Gold," co-produced by Lindsey Buckingham, and a Top 10 album, Bombs Away Dream Babies, that featured Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. In the '80s, Stewart was an inspiration to the "do-it-yourself" movement, recording and releasing albums for his own label as well as for the major companies. Today's kids are chanting, "Cheer up, sleepy Jean," thanks to the new eBay ads. And throughout his solo career, now nearing four decades, John Stewart has been revered by fellow musicians and serious music listeners as a pioneer and ongoing force in what's become known as the Americana genre—a tougher, more rootsy tributary of the singer/songwriter movement. A startling assortment of singers have endorsed his artistry by recording his songs, including Nanci Griffith, Joan Baez, Kate Wolf, Eddy Arnold, Harry Belafonte, Robert Goulet, Pat Boone, the Beat Farmers, the Lovin' Spoonful and Rosanne Cash (who scored a late-'80s #1 country hit with his "Runaway Train"). John Stewart is "a man who hasn’t lost his enormous faith in people and who earnestly but eloquently compresses more than four decades of dreams and regrets into his songs." (Rolling Stone) Local bluesman Bob Pellegrino will open for Stewart.

Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, Andrew McKnight has become an award-winning folk and Americana singer/songwriter. His musical journey has traced nearly half a million miles of blue highways and small towns nationwide, and earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fan response for his four CDs and captivating performances. That impressive discography includes his latest, Beyond Borders, one of five 2005 Americana Album of the Year finalists in the Independent Music Awards. One of its songs, "Good Things Matter," was the winner of the 2005 Great American Song Contest (Acoustic/Folk). Wherever McKnight takes the stage, audiences are at once spellbound and relaxed by his entertaining stories delivered with just the right touches of down-home humor, causing one concertgoer to label him "equal parts Robert Frost, William Least Heat-Moon and Jeff Foxworthy." He has shared those attributes in a wide variety of performance settings, including the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the Kennedy Center, Mountain Stage NewSong Festival, Chattanooga Riverbend Festival, Baltimore's Artscape Festival, and the nationally syndicated public and satellite radio shows River City Folk and The Midnight Special. "With a voice reminiscent of Don McLean, McKnight traverses from old-time Appalachian tunes to contemporary folk and blues, all backed up by his dead-on guitar playing." (Boston Globe)

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 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 50 music instructors involved in more than 240 adult classes and 70 children's classes annually.

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