Hungry Ear Coffee House: "Kiss The Blarney Stone" Concert

Feb. 16, 2013 - PRLog -- FRANK HAMILTON is the co-founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois. As a performer, he has recorded for Folkways Records and, as a member of the folk group The Weavers, for Vanguard Records, as well as for Philips and several other labels and appeared at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. He was the house musician for The Gate of Horn in Chicago, the nation's first folk music nightclub. He was also a member of The Weavers in the early 1960s.

As a young man, Hamilton met and played with Woody Guthrie at Will Geer's artist colony in Topanga, California in the mid 1950s.[2] In 1956 Frank Hamilton met Win Stracke and Dawn Greening (who started the Old Town School of Folk Music in her kitchen in Oak Park) at the Gate of Horn. Using teaching methods he observed with Bess Lomax in Topanga Canyon, together, Win, Dawn and Frank founded the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago. 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 joining The Weavers, with whom he played from 1962-1963.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4xaUars8Yo



William (Bill) Rappaport clarinetist, is taking the evening off from the Atlanta Symphony to partner with Hamilton in jazz. Besides extensive Symphony and Chamber music background, Mr. Rappaport has recorded with Ron Hockett, Tom Pletcher, and Bob Haggart on the Jazzology label. The pair will be playing both Trade and Swing Jazz from the 20s, 30s and 40s. http://www.atlantasymphony.org/About/Artists/ASO-Musicians/William-Rappaport.aspx

GEORGE HERGEN:
Born and raised in New York City, George Hergen was part of the Greenwich Village 'folk scene' that was taking place in the mid-1960's. The major influences on his music were The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, The Kingston Trio, Ian & Sylvia and the many other great folk performers of the 60's.

He has played at festivals, coffee-houses, taverns, campsites, schools, and private home and parties all along the eastern seaboard.

George Hergen are a unique performer whose music practically maps the Irish cultural integration into the ‘new country’.- from traditional Irish ballads, to original songs of love, drinking, revolution and redemption. You'll find yourself singing along with all the passion and spirit of the Irish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVNw5ROLXE