- Frank Hamilton (musician)
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Name = Frank Hamilton
Img_capt = Frank Hamilton teaching at theOld Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, IL. November 2007
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Instrument =guitar ,banjo
Genre = Folk
Occupation =Singer-songwriter ,music teacher
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Associated_acts =Win Stracke ,Pete Seeger ,The Weavers ,Big Bill Broonzy
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Notable_instruments =Frank Hamilton is an American Folk Musician and Co-Founder of the
Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois. As a performer he has recorded forFolkways Records andVanguard Records , and appeared at the firstNewport Folk Festival in 1959. He was the house musician for TheGate of Horn , the nation's first folk music nightclub in Chicago.As a young man Hamilton met and played with
Woody Guthrie at Will Geer's artist colony inTopanga, California in the mid 1950s. [cite book |last=Cray|first=Ed |authorlink= Ed Cray |title= Ramblin Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie |year=2004 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0393327361] In 1956 Frank Hamilton metWin Stracke at theGate of Horn . Using teaching methods he observed with Bess Lomax in Topanga Canyon, together, Win and Frank founded the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago, IL. There they developed a teaching method with an emphasis on group learning. On the opening night Frank taught the class a song demonstrated byBig Bill Broonzy . Frank served as dean of the school and taught there until 1962 when he left to joinThe Weavers . [Frank Hamilton, http://www.songlines.ws/biography.asp] [ [http://www.oldtownschool.org/history/frank.html Frank Hamilton | Old Town School History – Old Town School ] ] Hamilton continues to teach and perform today with his wife Mary.Discography
*Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes for Harmonica, Flute, Recorder, Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo, 12-String Guitar, and Voices, Frank Hamilton and
Pete Seeger , Folkways Records, 1959. [cite web
url = http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/SearchResults.aspx?AlbumTitle=frank+hamilton&TrackTitle=&ArtistName=&CatalogNumber=&YearOfRelease=&NumItem=10&YearMode=QuickSearch | title = Smithsonian Folkways | accessdate = 12/4/2007]
*Frank Hamilton Sings Folk Songs, Folkways Records 1962. FW02437 [cite web
url = http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/SearchResults.aspx?AlbumTitle=frank+hamilton&TrackTitle=&ArtistName=&CatalogNumber=&YearOfRelease=&NumItem=10&YearMode=QuickSearch | title = Smithsonian Folkways - Frank Hamilton Sings Folk Songs | accessdate = 2007-11-27]
*The Folk Singer's Folk Singer, Sound in the Room Records
*The World of Frank & Valucha, Frank Hamilton andValucha deCastro , Philips Records, 1962 [ [http://www.stillrecords.com/cgi-bin/awstats/catalogue/short.pl?250&50&af&browse& Phillips Records - Frank and Valucha] ]
*Long Lonesome Home, Songlines 1999. [ [http://www.songlines.ws/recordings.asp Long Lonesome Home - Frank Hamilton] ]References
External links
* [http://www.songlines.ws/biography.asp Frank and Mary's Artist website]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Hamilton_%28musician%29&action=edit§ion=3 Old Town School] - Video clip of Frank Hamilton talking about the Old Town School's teaching method
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