Happy New Year!!! 2026 used to seem like the distant future, but here we are. It’s hard to believe, but amazing to experience. I am always so grateful to be doing what I am doing and looking forward to seeing everyone in the new year! I usually start these letters with a recap of the previous month, but I feel like I should also recount some of my biggest happenings of the year as well!2025 was a fantastic year for me. I wrote over thirty songs for my Songsmith Series project

Martin Gilmore Music - December 2025 Happy holiday season to you all! I can’t believe it’s already the end of the year, but here we are. I have a lot of stuff to talk about in this newsletter, so sorry for the length, but that’s the way it goes when there’s so much great stuff going on!What a month November was!  I was excited to attend and help organize the Western Colorado Roots Music Summit with Kyle Harvey for the Southwest Regional Folk Alliance  (I serve on the board of

Happy autumn!  There are still a few colorful leaves on the trees here in Denver but it’s probably time to get my rake out and make some leaf piles so I can mulch my garden for next year.  October brought a bit of a respite from my travel schedule, but I was still busy. My classes at Swallow Hill are running well. I have a great group of students in the Swallow Hill Bluegrass Band class and they are working on a fun repertoire of songs. My songwriting class is turning out gre

Happy fall all y’all! I’m sitting in the airport writing this, which seems to have been my home this September. I was in Chattanooga,...

Martin Gilmore Trio w/KC Groves at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (Photo by Bob Josjor) Happy September! It’s technically still...

L-R: Martin Gilmore, Cindy Kalmenson, Sarah Beth Go, Madeline Roger, Abigayle Oakley, Katie Dahl I was recently a contestant at the...

Kerville Folk Fest Winners (L-R): Martin Gilmore, Cindy Kalmenson, Sarah Beth Go, Madeline Roger, Abigayle Oakley, Katie Dahl. June is...

Happy April! I just got back from vacation in beautiful Santa Cruz, California where life is pretty great. I ate great food, sat on the...

Howdy Y’all! March is here, which means spring is almost here, which means things are picking up on the music front. It also means I have...

Martin Gilmore will be at Swallow Hill with his Trio on February 22nd, 2025 Happy February! I always feel like winter gets long in...

Martin in front of Old Bedlam at Fort Laramie National Historic Site. Martin Gilmore Music - January 2025 Happy New Year! We made it to...

Wow, the end of the year is almost here, and what a year it has been. I can’t believe how fast it has gone, but I have enjoyed so much of...

Martin Gilmore Music - November 2024 Happy Fall all Y’all! What an amazing month October was! I made a lot of new friends in Texas while...

Martin Gilmore Music - October 2024 Fall is here! The leaves are turning, the frost is coming, and there’s a change in the air....

Howdy! Happy back to school! That’s what’s going on around here. My son started kindergarten, my wife is back to teaching band and...

The basics on the elements of a sounds system, how to set it up, and what you should buy!

Happy August! It’s hot outside, and I keep finding myself hunkered in my basement hiding from the sun all afternoon unless I have to go...

Happy Summer! Wow, what an amazing month June was for me! I had so much going on, but at the very top of the list is that I won the 2024...

How can it be June already? The spring is flying by especially as the school year winds down and gigging season starts up in earnest. May...

Happy May! I got my garden planted and the flowers are blooming around the yard. My son keeps asking me to get his little splash pool...