Swallow Hill Music Association

As the country's second largest acoustic Music school, the start of 2022 was full of its ups and downs. The new year kicked off with an insurgent of a new covid-19 variant, and people were understandably hesitant to return in-person for programming. We dealt with those challenges by continuing to offer online classes and private lessons. As the year progressed, we saw more people start to emerge and return in-person which required Swallow Hill to hire more teachers, create more programs and offerings, and configure the schedule to accommodate it all. By the end of the year, we had grown to 42 teachers and had offered over 600 programs to over 13000 unique students consisting of classes, workshops, and private lessons to establish more than 23,000 musical connections.

To make Music more accessible across our city and state, we offer Music education and programs in under-resourced communities. Our programming includes little swallows, early childhood education (ece) infused with Music for preschoolers, where Swallow Hill partners with schools and organizations who have a majority of students that qualify for free and reduced-priced lunch and/or headstart support, and have high diversity among students. We started 2022 in 13 schools and by the end of the year, we had partnered with 22 schools and had taught 2,538 classes. Our outreach programming also includes workshops and interactive performances in k-12 schools, and Music therapy for our aging population, veterans, and people living with developmental or mental health challenges.

In 2022, Swallow Hill Music produced 100 concerts between the three venues at our yale location and offsite throughout denver in addition to eight shows for the summer concert series and twelve evenings al fresco at the denver botanic gardens. We also partnered with organizations such as the clyfford still museum to book and promote five musical acts for their events and ridgefest where we booked five bands to perform for at the local festival. In total, through concert programming, Swallow Hill made over 55,000 musical connections. Our concerts highlighted international, national, and local musicians. In 2022, we increased our commitment to nurture our homegrown talent by showcasing local Music in the denver metro area, and growing bipoc, femme, lgbtq+ and disabled artists' audience.