Frank Hamilton (musician)

Frank Hamilton (musician)

Infobox musical artist
Name = Frank Hamilton


Img_capt = Frank Hamilton teaching at the Old 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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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 for Folkways Records and Vanguard Records, and appeared at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. He was the house musician for The Gate 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 in Topanga, 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 met Win Stracke at the Gate 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 by Big Bill Broonzy. Frank served as dean of the school and taught there until 1962 when he left to join The 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 and Valucha 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&section=3 Old Town School] - Video clip of Frank Hamilton talking about the Old Town School's teaching method


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