Such blues classics as “Sweet Home Chicago”, “Messin’ With Tha Kid”, and “Scratch My Back”, and cool contemporaries like Gary Clark, Jr.’s “Church”, will be a huge thrill.

Join for the whole class or drop-in for individual weeks!

Bring harmonicas in keys of A, B flat, C, and F

Prerequisites: Harmonica 1-A and 1-B, or similar skills

Help us get in tune by registering early!
To support our teachers and better accommodate the needs of our classes, we ask that students register at least 24 hours in advance of the class, lesson, and/or workshop.

Clay Kirkland

HARMONICA

Macon, GA | mouth organ wizard | B.A. in psychology | 27 years at Swallow Hill | Clay Kirkland and Key on a Kite | blues/rock | played 'Take This Job And Shove It' with Johnny Paycheck in the Sahara Reno Grand Ballroom | Pranayama

Clay’s teaching style: Using easy to read harmonica tablature and recordings, including his own Play Along CD, Clay enables the student to play for fun and with others in all musical styles, blues, country, folk, Americana, rock and roll, world beat.

Musical performance and training, which began at age 6, has included cello, baritone horn, choir, saxophone, guitar, piano, tabla drums. Fifty years professional musician, thirty years teaching harmonica.
Awards include:
Best World Beat Album of 1995, for his “Blues, Rock, Raga, Harmonica” - Westword Best of Denver
Lifetime Achievement - Colorado Blues Society
Distinguished Faculty - Swallow Hill Music
Has appeared in concert with: Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Lou Rawls, Robben Ford, Derrick Trucks, Royal Musicians of Nepal, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, many others

Link to more info about Clay

Clay is teaching in-person lessons and classes in Denver through the end of May 2022, then will return to online lessons only until his next trip back to Colorado!