Dori Freeman w/Patrick Dethlefs

Swallow Hill Music presents Dori Freeman, with an opening set from Patrick Dethlefs

Tickets for this show are now available here: https://swallowhillmusic.org/event/dori-freeman

Doors 6PM / Show 7PM

About Dori Freeman

The purity of Dori Freeman’s voice and the directness of her songwriting reflect not only her Appalachian hometown — Galax, Va. — but also a determined classicism, a rejection of the ways modern country punches itself up for radio and arenas.” – Jon Pareles, The New York Times

2023’s Do You Recall offers a closer look at Dori Freeman’s brand of expansive Americana. It’s an album that both reaffirms her roots and reaches past them, exploring the sounds and stories that lay between traditional formats. Freeman does her best work in those gray areas, bringing her own color to a sound that’s varied, versatile, and unmistakably her own. She’s still proud of her Appalachian heritage. With Do You Recall, though, she’s making her own traditions.

Raised among a family of musicians in the Blue Ridge Mountains and hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the most authentic vocalists to emerge from the hills of southwestern Virginia in recent years,” she’s a bonafide Appalachian artist, while simultaneously shattering the archetype by empowering the characters in her songs with personal strength and homegrown wisdom.

About Patrick Dethlefs

Maybe it’s odd for me to be the one writing this but why not hear it straight from the horse’s mouth? Does anyone actually read these? Well, if you’re still here…. My name is Patrick Dethlefs and I’m a singer, songwriter and musician based out of Denver, Colorado. I started releasing my own music around 2010. Since then I’ve played a lot of shows, written a fair amount of songs and opened for many people I could call heroes. I’ve got a new record “Patty” (out September 12th, 2025) and I think it is some of my best work yet. I hope you’ll check it out, share it with someone you love and come to a show.