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Old Town School of Folk Music

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...

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Old Town, Chicago

1970s, Old Town became the center of Chicago folk music, which was experiencing a revival at the time. In 1957, the Old Town School of Folk Music opened...

Last Update: 2024-04-03T15:00:13Z Word Count : 2357 Synonim Old Town, Chicago

Old-time music

Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music. It developed along with various North American folk dances, such as square dancing, clogging,...

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Frank Hamilton (American musician)

3, 1934) is an American folk musician, collector of folk songs, and educator. He co-founded the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois in...

Last Update: 2024-02-10T21:26:07Z Word Count : 1840 Synonim Frank Hamilton (American musician)

Mary Schmich

Retrieved February 14, 2013. "Songs of Good Cheer | 12/18/2020 | Old Town School of Folk Music". www.oldtownschool.org. "Songs of Good Cheer with Mary Schmich...

Last Update: 2023-10-05T02:44:15Z Word Count : 1221 Synonim Mary Schmich

Win Stracke

an American folk musician and co-founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois. Stracke was a Chicago fixture in music, theater, and...

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John Prine

play the guitar at age 14. He attended classes at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. After serving in West Germany with the U.S. Army, he returned...

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Lincoln Square, Chicago

Regional Library Cambodian Association of Illinois DANK Haus German American Cultural Center Old Town School of Folk Music Rosehill Cemetery Kindred Hospital...

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The Magnetic Fields

around the country, culminating with six shows at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music." Realism was released in January 2010, concluding what Merritt termed...

Last Update: 2024-04-16T21:06:30Z Word Count : 1314 Synonim The Magnetic Fields

Gate of Horn

helped build the folk music revival in Chicago. Gibson was also one of the forces behind the influential Old Town School of Folk Music for several decades...

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English folk music

The folk music of England is a tradition-based music which has existed since the later medieval period. It is often contrasted with courtly, classical...

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Eric Zorn

Schmich and Zorn have hosted the "Songs of Good Cheer" holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday...

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Jon Langford

(Bloodshot Records) 2006" "Take This Hammer" – Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook Volume One (Old Town School Recordings, Bloodshot Records) 2007: "Junco...

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Roger McGuinn

Everly Brothers. In 1957, he enrolled as a student at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, where he learned the five-string banjo and 12-string guitar...

Last Update: 2024-04-07T23:43:42Z Word Count : 3138 Synonim Roger McGuinn

Wanees Zarour

"Chicago Immigrant Orchestra". Old Town School of Folk Music. 2021. Retrieved 2021-12-09. "Folk Songs of Illinois #4". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-12-09. Official...

Last Update: 2024-02-13T05:24:32Z Word Count : 456 Synonim Wanees Zarour

Swallow Hill Music Association

folk music. The school is inspired by the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. Swallow Hill hosts hundreds of concerts a year ranging from national acts...

Last Update: 2022-11-04T20:22:25Z Word Count : 597 Synonim Swallow Hill Music Association

Appalachian music

development of old-time music, country music, bluegrass, and rock n' roll, and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s....

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Jug band

Old Town School of Folk Music. Two years later, when he moved to Portland, Oregon, organizing the battle fell to Skip Landt, another Old Town School teacher...

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Music of Chicago

Forum Merit School of Music Music Institute of Chicago Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, in Evanston Old Town School of Folk Music Illinois...

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Fareed Haque

the encouragement and financial support of the Chicago World Music Festival and the Old Town School of Folk Music. (The orchestra's original incarnation...

Last Update: 2023-10-07T20:23:36Z Word Count : 861 Synonim Fareed Haque

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Old Town School of Folk Music

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, and Dawn Greening, the School opened in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago in 1957 (the original location at 333 west North Avenue has since been demolished). It began by offering guitar and banjo lessons in a communal teaching style and hosting performances by well-known folk musicians. Currently the school has an enrollment of about 6,000 students per week, 2,700 of them children.