Hi Friends ~ It's been a long, long time since I updated you all! 2015 was one strange year! As you can see from our calendar, we've taken a number of months off from playing to concentrate on writing our new album. I really wanted to take some time to get back to the basics and write solely from the heart. It is too easy to change the direction of your songs, your very personal songs, when you get a lot of input and you play the game of music. It's very important to me that my songs stay true to why I…

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It's been too long since I've written about what's happening with The Sarah Swanson Band. The good news is We're Still Here! I ran into a health issue in 2013 that needed to be dealt with, one I feared would keep me from performing again. Fortunately I am receiving excellent treatment and have the go ahead to get back on stage and do what we love to do. I Can't Wait!!!

The band has been rehearsing regularly during this time, and we have the writing bug so hopefully we'll be back in the studio…

Just added my song Time To Begin from our CD THIS SIDE OF MADNESS for you to hear at www.ReverbNation.com/SarahSwanson. I remember writing this song so well, just me and the piano sitting in the dark. I play the beautiful grand piano at Big Sky Recording on this song. It was challenging for the guys in the band to work around my lack of precision when I play, but they did a beautiful job. This song is kind of a sleeper on the CD, but it always makes me happy, always makes me smile. Time To Begin is a song…

Hi Friends~ I know I've been saying this for a while now, but we *finally* have new Sarah Swanson Band videos ready to upload to our YouTube channel (SarahSwansonMusic)! We hope to get these live by next week at the latest. They are mostly live footage of the band from this summer's shows so if you missed us then you will have the chance to see us soon. Some of the videos are kind of funny stuff! You never really know what you're going to get when you have a video camera rollin' along while you're doing a…

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Just a quick note to thank all of you who came out to see us this summer, bought CDs, sang our songs, and kept us keeping on! We are really excited about having a full band back in place, and this fall we're going to be working hard on spreading the news about The Sarah Swanson Band!

Within the next two weeks we'll finally have new video to share with you! Please check back here frequently for updates. Hopefully I won't be doing anything too ridiculous in the videos HA!

We'd love and…

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Hope all is well in your world! We are having the best summer playing gigs and really getting our groove on with new band members Dave Wolff on bass and Paul Koch on drums! They recently joined the rest of my band... Patrick Thomas (guitar), Jim Gillette (guitar), and Jennifer Buehrer (backing vocals/percussion), and so far the feedback on our new band is fantastic. There is nothing like getting the right mix of musicians together, and my friends, we have that! Really couldn't be happier!…

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It's been a while since I've updated this blog because, well, we've been busy! We're working on rehearsing, finding gigs, writing, and listening to our favorite bands whenever we can (just saw our *6th* Blackberry Smoke show in less than a year. Yeah, we're a little obsessed.)

Anyway, we're trying something new ~ a FREE download of the title track to THIS SIDE OF MADNESS! You can only get it here on this website for a limited time. If you dig it, we hope you'll head on over to www.CDBABY.com/C…

One of the things musicians love to do most is play for people who love music... and that is exactly what The Sarah Swanson Band is planning to do! It's been a year of trial and error getting this show on the road, but we've been practicing a lot and it's feeling pretty good!

We're now ready to go, and we're checking out all kinds of gig possibilities. Personally,the summer is my favorite time to see bands. We already have a few names on our top to-see list this summer ~  Foghat, Cheap Trick, and lots of…

Well, it's my birthday this week, and birthdays have a strange way of making you reflect on your life whether you really want to or not. And as we all know... every birthday reminds us we're not getting any younger. I used to think that was scary, a time to panic, feel sad about the opportunities I've missed or the chances I haven't taken. Rock music is traditionally a young person's gig. But I'm not giving up.

Got smacked in the head a few times in the last months. I said I was giving up. I threatened to…

Hi All! Wanted to let you know we have a NEW lineup for the Sarah Swanson Band in the works allowing us to play more shows! We are very excited about this endeavor and will post more about that soon. For now, please get yourself over to www.CDBABY.com/CD/SarahSwanson2 where we have consistently been on several Top Seller lists if you do not yet have THIS SIDE OF MADNESS! We so much appreciate all of the support and love we have received. Sending it right back to you~ xoxo sarah