Whamming and Down By the Riverside! | Our co-founder and guiding light: Legendary musician Frank Hamilton (of many genres, including folk) presents Lesson 10 of a teaching series, bringing his experience of many decades of performing and teaching. Watch, listen, and learn as he breaks down this unique style. It's his final video in this series! Check out our playlist for the entire set of lessons!
Film/Production: Bert Elliott www.bertelliottsound.com/
Introductory photo: Keith May mayphotoanddesign.com/
"After traveling the south in 1953 with Jack Elliott and Guy (the man responsible for introducing the song “We Shall Overcome” to the American Civil Rights Movement), Frank made it to New York’s Washington Square Park for the famous Sunday folk song meetings. (By the way, “We Shall Overcome” is copyrighted in the name of Frank Hamilton, Zilphia Horton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger.)
Along the way, Frank performed and recorded with Seeger, Odetta, The Clancy Brothers, and Bud and Travis, to name just a few, eventually winding up in Chicago where, in 1957, he co-founded the Old Town School of Folk Music. From its humble beginnings in the Swedish Immigrant Bank Building, the school grew into the largest non-profit music school in the country and remains the largest of its kind today with over 7,000 students passing through the doors on a weekly basis.
Frank’s musical history is impressive. In his sixty-year career, which is still going strong, Frank has performed in almost every state in the U.S., from the Gate of Horn in Chicago, the first folk music nightclub, to up and down the east coast with The Weavers in the 1960s... "... read more at frankhamiltonschool.org