Description:Chapters: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe, Calliope: Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance, Trac: Music Traditions Wales. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Old Town School of Folk Music is a Chicago teaching and performing institution that launched the careers of many notable folk music artists. Founded by Folk musicians Frank Hamilton and Win Stracke, the School opened in Old Town in 1957 offering guitar and banjo lessons in a communal teaching style and hosting performances by well-known folk musicians. Currently the school is led by executive director Bau Graves and has an enrollment of about 6,000 students per week, 2,700 of them children. The Old Town School was originally founded by musicians Win Stracke and Frank Hamilton and opened December 1, 1957. Win was a classically trained singer and Frank was a young multi-instrumentalist and teacher of folk music; Frank had previously studied under Bess Lomax Hawes, daughter of folklorist John Lomax. Win and Frank met at the Gate of Horn nightclub in Chicago where they were both performing. Together Frank and Win developed a classroom technique based upon traditional oral and folk teaching methods: listening, watching, trial and error, and playing by ear. Where other music schools taught sight reading and performance, Win and Frank wanted the Old Town School "method" to retain its emphasis on participation and development of aural skills. Early Classes were held in dining room at the home of co-founder Dawn Greening Founder Frank Hamilton teaching a workshop. November 2007Several of the early faculty at the Old Town School were past members of Win Stracke's the "I Come For to Sing" rev...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=220415We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Folk Music Organisations: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe. To get started finding Folk Music Organisations: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
34
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158651414
Folk Music Organisations: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe
Description: Chapters: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe, Calliope: Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance, Trac: Music Traditions Wales. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Old Town School of Folk Music is a Chicago teaching and performing institution that launched the careers of many notable folk music artists. Founded by Folk musicians Frank Hamilton and Win Stracke, the School opened in Old Town in 1957 offering guitar and banjo lessons in a communal teaching style and hosting performances by well-known folk musicians. Currently the school is led by executive director Bau Graves and has an enrollment of about 6,000 students per week, 2,700 of them children. The Old Town School was originally founded by musicians Win Stracke and Frank Hamilton and opened December 1, 1957. Win was a classically trained singer and Frank was a young multi-instrumentalist and teacher of folk music; Frank had previously studied under Bess Lomax Hawes, daughter of folklorist John Lomax. Win and Frank met at the Gate of Horn nightclub in Chicago where they were both performing. Together Frank and Win developed a classroom technique based upon traditional oral and folk teaching methods: listening, watching, trial and error, and playing by ear. Where other music schools taught sight reading and performance, Win and Frank wanted the Old Town School "method" to retain its emphasis on participation and development of aural skills. Early Classes were held in dining room at the home of co-founder Dawn Greening Founder Frank Hamilton teaching a workshop. November 2007Several of the early faculty at the Old Town School were past members of Win Stracke's the "I Come For to Sing" rev...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=220415We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Folk Music Organisations: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe. To get started finding Folk Music Organisations: Old Town School of Folk Music, Philadelphia Folksong Society, Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, Mudcat Cafe, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.