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Brennan Brood

Brennan has played guitar since the age of 13, and made his way through college and beyond playing in various Funk, Britpop, and Grateful Expressionless-style jam bands. He discovered the worlds of former-time and bluegrass music in 2018 when a friend invited him to a raucous and joyful backyard hootenanny. Subsequently the night was over, Brennan asked, "Where can I learn how to play like this?" In response, several hootenanniers in attendance mentioned the Frank Hamilton School. Ane musician suggested learning something other than guitar, and offered to let Brennan try a mandolin, which was a joy to play from the very beginning. While taking classes with Mick Kinney and Max Godfrey at FHS, Brennan roughshod in love with traditional American music and learned to play the mandolin, clawhammer banjo, bass and fiddle. Brennan now plays mandolin and dabble in two local bluegrass bands, What Showed Upwardly and The Hot Dill Pickers, and plays occasionally at churches and chapel services across the Atlanta area. He loves playing onetime-time fiddle tunes, bluegrass breaks, and ragtime. Brennan is a dedicated teacher, having worked as an educator since 2001, and enjoys about of all the excitement of a classroom filled with learning. If you tin't discover him at FHS, he's probably beyond the street at Columbia Theological Seminary, where he serves as Associate Professor of Erstwhile Testament.

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Clark Dark-brown

Clark Chocolate-brown, a resident of Atlanta, has been playing mandolin and guitar for nigh fifty years. He has played in rock bands, country music groups, and at church building. For 14 years he played guitar and did arrangements for the Atlanta Mandolin Orchestra. He too plays mandolin in the duo MandoCordion, and he's been performing solo at diverse venues around Atlanta since 2010. He developed his solo style while taking master classes from mandolinists Simon Mayor, Evan Marshall, Carlo Aonzo, and guitarist Rene Izquierdo.

Josh Cothran

Josh grew up strumming the guitar but caught the banjo bug a few years ago and hasn't looked back. In that fourth dimension, he'southward performed at festivals, restaurants, worship services, and more random gigs than you can milk shake a stick at. Josh spent several years as a fellow member of gospel bluegrass ring Hicks with Picks; more recently he's been making music with his beautiful wife Jessica as Porcupine Middle. Josh loves the community of making music with others, and looks frontward to sharing that joy with y'all!

Glen DeMeritt

Glen hails from Wichita, Ks where he studied with the keen Craig Owens and other accomplished composers and teachers at Wichita State Academy. He started didactics in 2004 and quickly found joy in helping others find their musical vocalisation. Whether he'south playing in his ring, The Pour Downs, or helping someone else go it together, Glen is grateful to share a musical experience with you.

George Eckard

George Eckard is a Decatur resident who has lived in the Atlanta area for more than than 50 years. When his parents bought a little red ukulele for him, much to their surprise, he began to play it, they began to learn more instruments for him and they offered encouragement for his musical endeavors. His big brother took him to meet Bob Dylan at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown Atlanta for his 15th birthday. That same year Miss Harbin, his ninth course English teacher who looked a niggling like Greta Garbo, told him that he had the center of a poet. Somewhere in this soil the seeds of songwriting were planted. He started songwriting in college and has had a passion for information technology ever since. He has played at local venues solo, with the Unusual Suspects and, currently, with the 4 Human String Ring. Today, he is completing work on his second collection of songs called Love the Land.

Shoshana Edelberg

Shoshana Edelberg has been playing flute since she was a young teenager (and that was quite a while ago now!) when her mother offered her a selection between flute, clarinet or violin lessons. She liked the pretty, shiny, silver one—and it proved to be a skillful pick, since she presently began playing saxophone, Irish gaelic whistles and various European and Middle Eastern cease-diddled flutes as well. She spent many summers at Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in California, and attended Berklee College of Music afterward graduating loftier schoolhouse. She then knocked around playing "casuals" and fronting some Celtic-flavored rock bands. Shoshana currently focuses on educational activity, as she is embarking on yet another adult career change. She emphasizes traditional and contemporary flute technique along with Berklee-mode ear grooming and theory that tin can be applied to any style of music.

Eryk Fisher

Eryk Fisher began his musical journey with a harmonica and a songbook in the early 80's. Information technology didn't have long to tire of commercial radio and find local stations playing a variety of music that was culturally diverse, and to step into Atlanta'south blues scene. After playing at some open jams, he began performing in bands; regular phase performances coupled with mentoring from seasoned musicians formed the core foundation of his music teaching. Putting in countless hours of listening, playing, reading, writing, teaching, recording and wood-shedding expanded and continues to add to his musical knowledge.

Vikki Ganger

Afterward an early on fascination with music making, beginning with a plastic recorder in 4th grade, a guitar during the Beatles era, and a largely unsuccessful stab at the autoharp (also many strings and a lack of electronic tuners), Vikki's musical journey began in earnest when she establish an Appalachian dulcimer in a Sears Surplus outlet in Houston, Texas. Priced at $12.00, the affordability of this treasure was likely based on the fact that no one in Texas, let alone Sears, knew what information technology was. Despite a cleaved scroll, missing strings, and a missing fret, the instrument was finally made playable and sparked a lifelong journey into traditional folk music.

Vikki helped found the first Dulcimer club in Houston, and later moved to East Tennessee where she played with the dulcimer trio Mount Laurel.  Along the manner she picked up diverse other folk instruments, simply her love of the dulcimer remained. Later moving to Georgia, she became a fellow member of the North Georgia Foothills Dulcimer Association, and has played with the Reddish Height Porch Pickers, presenting menstruum music at living history events sponsored by the Georgia State Parks. Her dulcimer collection currently includes several Appalachian lap dulcimers, a hammered dulcimer, a banjo dulcimer, and a bowed dulcimer.

Max Godfrey

Max's commencement love is traditional American music. He has led workshops on worksongs and other telephone call-and-response songs at colleges, farms, and customs centers all over the northeast, including Sheepscot General, Whitefield ME; Williams College; Full Plate Farm Collective, Ithaca NY; Common Ground Subcontract, Beacon NY; Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation, Williamstown MA; SUNY New Paltz; and Billings Forge Community Works, Hartford CT.  He has also taught worksongs and former-time dabble at the Folk Music Society of New York Bound weekend 2014.

Max's vision is to requite his students the tools they need to play by ear, play with others, improvise, and teach themselves. He makes it fun and easy for people learn together by using a telephone call-and-response teaching method that develops a strong connectedness between ear, voice, and musical instrument. And so it's natural to larn new music and bring together in with any group, and to play or sing well, too!

Max regularly performs in Atlanta at Freedom Farmers Marketplace at the Carter Center, Grant Park Farmers Market place, East Atlanta Farmers Market, Root City Pop-upwardly Markets, and The Pullman in Kirkwood. Max's essays on worksongs have been published inTaproot (Effect 13) and on Bennett Konesni'sworksongs.org.

Facebook pages for Max'due south electric current projects:

• Max and Maggie
• Max Godfrey (Solo performance, lessons, writing, and workshops)
• The New Millennium Jelly Rollers
• Sourwood Honey

Max teaches Old-fourth dimension American fiddle styles, clawhammer banjo and state-blues and folk guitar privately. Y'all tin contact him about lessons atmgodfrey218@gmail.com, or 404 218 4707.

Frank Hamilton

Not that long ago, American folk songs were like copper or aureate. Though you might discover a local musical precious stone crackling over the airwaves on tardily night radio, you had to mine the hills and valleys of this country to observe the bulk of authentic American folk music. The general listening public had never heard the existent stuff, the music made by real Americans, music with existent American origins.

That is until people like Frank Hamilton came along. Like Alan Lomax, Peter Seeger, Jack Elliott and Guy Carawan, a man Frank hitchhiked clear across the lower 48 to run into, the young Frank Hamilton combed the state in the early 1950'due south, finding and learning songs that remained unpretentious, songs that grew uncontaminated in pockets of expertise, music played by customs folk with regional idiosyncrasies, music with deep roots and meaningful lyrics.

Andy Howard

Andy Howard
Director, American Racket Cloggers
Director, Sautee Stomp Clogging Weekend

Andy Howard is a sixth generation Floridian currently living in Atlanta. He earned a Masters of Arts in American Dance Studies from Florida State University, authoring a thesis on the history and social origins of American Team Clogging. He too earned a Masters of Arts in International Concern from the University of Florida. He is a leader in the clogging community, a regular featured instructor at C.L.O.M. national conventions and regional events throughout N America. His troupe, American Racket, has performed throughout the U.Southward. and in Republic of korea, Brazil, Canada and Costa rica. American Racket has shared stages with Ted Koppel, Wayne Brady, Sister Hazel, Sugar Ray, Dane Cook and others. Andy is an active performer, gauge, instructor and conference presenter. His professional career focuses on marketing, art direction and public relations for companies including Orlando Opera Company, Orlando Repertory Theatre, the Academy of Florida College of the Arts, the Academy of Florida Department of Recreational Sports and (currently) the Georgia Tech Research Corporation in Atlanta. He has taught credit-earning trip the light fantastic toe courses in tap, clogging and world trip the light fantastic at Florida State University and Santa Fe College, worked as an entertainer at Walt Disney Earth Resort and has been a regular instructor for the University of Florida'due south Trip the light fantastic for Life program which involves researching the bear upon of motion and dance on people with Parkinson'southward Disease and their caregivers. Andy enjoys traveling, performing and outdoor photography, including underwater photography documenting Florida's extensive network of pristine fresh-water springs. He holds a Group Exercise certification from the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA). He was inducted into the All American Clogging Team in 2002, the Bottleneck Team of the Decade in 2010, and the Florida Clogging Hall of Fame in 2015.

Evan Kinney

Evan Kinney grew upwards in a family unit of old time music in his native Kennesaw, Georgia. He learned from his father at an early historic period and has connected to hone his skills by studying the eccentric playing of 20's recording artists such as John Dilleshaw, The Skillet Lickers and Earl Johnson. Evan has performed with bands such as The Griddle Lickers, Georgia Crackers and Dixieland Squirrel Skinners and has taught and performed traditional music at The Bluish Ridge Quondam Time Week in Mars Hill, John C. Campbell, The Alabama Folk School, Festival of American Dabble Tunes and The Brooklyn Folk Fest.

Mick Kinney

Mick Kinney enjoys fiddling a diversity of styles including Appalachian, Cajun, Celtic, Blues and Swing. A professional person musician since 1978, he has played the 1982 World Fair, McCabe's, Firm of Blues, Bluebird Cafe, Rendez vous des Cajuns, and NPR's Mountain Stage. Mick has performed with John Hartford, Victoria Williams, Michelle Malone, Atlanta blues human Frank Edwards, and 1920s recording artist Stranger Malone. Recent collaborations as a folklorist have been with the Smithsonian New Harmonies exhibit, Georgia Humanities Council, Carpetbag Theater, Dust to Digital Records and Northwest Georgia Fabric Heritage Trail. Currently, Mick appears often with Elise Witt, jazz clarinetist Dub Hudson, and the Kinney family former time dance band "The HickHoppers." He has been an instructor at Swannanoa Gathering, John C. Campbell Folk School, Mars Loma College, Alabama Folk School, and Festival of American Dabble Tunes. His class will focus on traditional fiddle technique and musical concepts such equally scales, modes, and harmony.

John Maschinot

John put downward guitar and took up penny whistle as a immature lad in the 1970s afterwards realizing at that place were just too many Jimmy Page, Ace Frehley and Doc Watson wannabes to compete with. After meeting the slap-up Chicago uilleann piper Joe Shannon, he added the pipes and Irish wooden flute to his instrumental arsenal and fix off on a lifelong musical journey. In the late '70s/early '80s John was peachy to destroy a few good tunes with fellow beginners at whatever institution or street corner would be fool enough to have them.

But by the mid '80s he found his way and started The Buddy O'Reilly Band, for many years the big cheese of the Atlanta Irish gaelic/folk music scene. "The Buddies" have produced 3 albums and a whole lot of peachy music and fun!

John has since gone on to a solo career and participate in many bands and collaborations. His latest venture is with the music and dance trio, Ah Surely. And he'southward been involved with productions big and small-scale. He created and produces Atlanta'south annual Celtic Christmas concert, celebrating 27 years in 2018.

He's a leader at The Marlay House Trad Tuesday night in Decatur – 10 years of trad music!

John'due south been didactics Irish music workshops and privately for about half of his 58 years.

And he discovered, though he couldn't quite match Jimi Hendrix'south guitar on uilleann pipes, he could at to the lowest degree come shut to his soul!

Maura Nicholson

Maura grew up in a family inclined to musical talents, in a city inclined to supporting the arts. Piano, violin, and singing were her hobbies all through school. She majored in music at Emory with a song concentration. The years afterwards college brought a family of five, all of whom participated in music of one kind or another. During that time, Maura's love of the violin became a hobby, something she dabbled at periodically. But once she found the Frank Hamilton School, her love returned to a passion, and the school inspired her to switch from violin to fiddle, a change that has kept her playing almost every day, more for the enjoyment of playing than to perfect the music for performance. Maura retired from educational activity loftier school and establish herself returning to teaching, but this time, to share her love of fiddle playing for anyone who believes it's too hard. She finds her motivation in the joy the students receive in learning to play.

Barbara Panter-Connah

Barbara grew up in Atlanta in a musical family from Copperhill, TN, a copper mining town on the GA/TN line. Her trivial granddaddy, John B. ("Uncle Bert") Panter played for house dances, befouled raisings, and other community gatherings, often alongside Fiddlin' John Carson. After surviving a mine cave-in where his brother was killed, Barbara's grandfather declared that no son of his would work in the mines. Thus the whole family including Barbara's grandparents, parents, and all but two of her male parent'south siblings moved to Atlanta in the 1940s after WWII, providing a big extended family. Barbara's begetter, John Panter Jr., one of 7 brothers and two sisters, was a fine singer with a beautiful tenor vocalism and a keen sense of harmony. Some of Barbara's earliest memories are of falling to sleep at family unit gatherings listening to gospel singing with cute harmonies. At the historic period of 3 Barbara began playing piano and singing and strumming her petty ukulele and sang her 1st solo in church at the age of 4. Her grandfather gave her his dabble when she was viii years old and told her he expected her to become a fiddler, further setting her on course for a lifetime of music. Barbara has played with several bands and performed throughout the southeast, in the northeast, southwest, British Isles, and even Serbia. She played and sang for over twoscore years with her tardily husband, Whit Connah, in the band, Injure Canis familiaris, that began in the 70s as an acoustic hillbilly, honky tonk, old time, Cajun band that evolved into Hair of the Dog with drums, and electrical guitar, bass, and pedal steel; and continues with her son and daughter-in-law John and Audrey Ferguson, amongst others. Barbara is currently a member of The Rosin Sisters with Ann Whitley and January Smith, 3 fiddling "sisters" who love playing dabble tunes and singing early country songs, with close attention to harmony! Barbara loves instruction and facilitating others to find their way on fiddle or guitar, and delights in guiding harmony singing in a supportive fun environment. Barbara, with the Rosin Sisters, has had considerable experience leading harmony workshops at Blue Ridge Erstwhile Time Music Week at Mars Hill, NC; at Bear on the Square Festival in Dahlonega, GA, and the Dulcimer and One-time Fourth dimension Festival in Palestine, TX.

Jeff Pearlman

Jeff has been playing music since taking up the trumpet in middle school.  Highlights of his four years in the high school marching band include a stint on tuba and meeting his wife.  Jeff also began playing guitar in loftier school.  When Jeff'south children were younger, neighbour Frank Hamilton recommended the ukulele for them.  The kids didn't learn the instrument, simply Jeff did.  The ukulele led to banjo and then a return to guitar.  Over the years, Jeff has spent countless hours sharing music with school-aged children and adult peers.

Jeff approaches music lessons as a collaboration between teacher and educatee. By nurturing a rapport with his students, he tin can shape his classes to satisfy the individual tastes and goals of everyone in the group. In his grade you'll develop non but every bit an instrumentalist, but every bit a musician; learning by ear will requite yous the both the ability to play the songs you'll learn from Jeff, but the capacity to play forth with songs yous don't know!

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