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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.[1] In 1956 Frank Hamilton met Win Stracke at the Gate of Horn. Using teaching methods he observed with Bess Lowmax 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.[2][3] Hamilton continues to teach and perform today with his wife Mary.
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- 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. [4]
- Frank Hamilton Sings Folk Songs, Folkways Records 1962. FW02437 [5]
- The Folk Singer's Folk Singer, Sound in the Room Records
- The World of Frank & Valucha, Frank Hamilton and Valucha deCastro, Philips Records, 1962[6]
- Long Lonesome Home, Songlines 1999.[7]
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