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The Frank Hamilton School has an exciting week coming up and hope you can join for either event! Thursday, November 3 features a Frank Hamilton School Concert featuring a co-bill of The Pussywillows (Hannah Zale & Carly Gibson) and Gibson Wilbanks (Carly Gibson & BJ Wilbanks). Saturday, November 5, we will be at Chomp & Stomp, so come on by for some chili, music, and fun! Scroll on down for more info on these events as well as our Holiday Half-Term!
Our Sept/Oct/Nov Term is in session, but you can register now for our Special Holiday Half-Term which starts on Tuesday, November 29th.Register Now! Click below find out all about our classes and teachers, and most importantly how you can join in on the fun of learning to play music with other folks!
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Frank Hamilton will be performing twice during this mighty fine annual gathering chili lovers and Americana music! Come on out for the chili early, and at 2 PM Frank will make a special appearance on the Park Stage (main stage) followed by a JAM in the Ester Peachey Lefevre Park from 3:30-4:15 PM. Bring an instrument, sing along, or just come enjoy this incredibly family friendly park. http://chompandstomp.com for complete information!
The schedule is now complete for the inaugural Frank Hamilton Folk School Concert Series, held at the Red Light Cafe through the end of the year one Thursday each month! Stay tuned for a few more concerts and workshops TBA. Please read below for the complete schedule and spread the word! A portion of the proceeds from each concert benefits FHFS!
So many amazing performers have graced the stage at TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny, and this year is certainly no exception to what we take for granted at these events! The Friday night showcase with Dangermuffin commences festivities, and Saturday will leave you dizzy with musical interludes spinning around your head all day long, while enjoying the intimate confines of Starbridge Event Center. Please read on to view some videos of the bands!
Strung Like A Horse(10:30-midnight) is going to take the 18th edition of the Hootenanny out with a bang! Check out this great video shot at Cherokee Farms in LaFayette, GA, of the song “Gypsy Jane”.
TDawg Presents welcomes back Packway Handle Band(8:30PM-10PM) to the Hootenanny stage for the second time! This Athens, GA-based quintet really grips you as they make their way through their set with genuine songwriting and tight instrumentation, single-mic or all-electric. You don’t know what you’ll get sometimes!! Check out this clip from Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Packway Handle Band performing “I Wish I hadn’t Done It”.
Please welcome Jason Kenney (6:15PM-7:45PM) to the Hootenanny stage for the first time! This incredible singer/songwriter comes from just down the road in Dahlonega, and you feel the local roots in his music. Pure and true is his music, and you’ll see for yourself in the video for “Turn This Sorrow Into Joy”, title track from his latest album.
Atlanta’s own Cajun masters Hair of the Dog bring their rockin’ sound to the Tree Stage at the Hootenanny for the first time! Trust me, they’re the real deal. Been around a long time playing what they love, and pedal steel maestro Bill Fleming will keep his rig up there for the rest of the evening so you never know what will happen with all those great musicians gathered all night long! Check out this raw yet rockin’ clip from a neighborhood party (I was there!) featuring HoD performing “Leona Had A Party”. Your whole family will be kickin it during this set!
The Higher Choir (1:45PM-3:15PM) has been climbing the ladder for several years now, and folks, they very well might be reaching a moment of reckoning, in a state of mind where their Southern rock sound touches your bones and your soul! They wowed the crowd on the Lynyrd Skynyrd Cruise, have been packing venues around the Southeast, and as you see from this video, “The Working Title” from their CD Release party in 2013, it’s a kickin’ sound that has you boogey’in! I first saw these folks at the Wheelbarrow Fest in Reynoldstown a few years back, and they blew me away!
Performing on the Music On Main Street (MOMS) stage, Gibson Wilbanks Band is going to bring two sets (3:15PM-4PM, 5:30PM-6:15PM) , one after The Higher Choir and the second after Hair of the Dog, that are gonna have you groovin’ even more so. The interlay of slide and rhythm by both Carly Gibson and BJ Wilbanks, along with at-large artist Richie Jones on drums and the insane harmonica of Brad Bauman, will make these two sets ones you don’t want to miss! The soulfulness comes through loud and clear on this video, enjoy!
TDawg Presents is excited to welcome the dynamic trio Dangermuffin to the 18th edition of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny! If you’ve not had a chance to familiarize yourself with them quite yet, this is your chance, and there promises to be a few special sit-ins that might happen along the way through two-set, 3 hour performance! From Folly Beach, SC just outside of Charleston, their melodic sound represents three musicians bringing you something unique. Dangermuffin has recently completed a run of shows with bluegrass buddies The Larry Keel Experience and is gearing up for an extremely busy festival season this year! They perform Friday night only, and you must have a two-night pass to see them. So plan on coming out Friday, get your campsite up, and hear that set which is just for YOU!
The two videos – “Cicada” and “Little Douglas” – are from a performance at The Pour House in Charleston.
TDawg Presents is excited to bring N. GA favorite Jason Kenney onto the lineup for Saturday evening, April 11! Kenney is a Dahlonega native who has been impressing folks for quite a while now with his songwriting and musicianship, and you know he won’t disappoint in his own back yard! In addition, please welcome a new band on the scene that features veterans of the circuit for many years calling themselves Blackberry Possum. Wildman Steve has brought former bandmate Brian Fowler (Bibb City Ramblers) as well as stellar Alabama guitarist Tony Brook into the mix for what promises to be one of those sets that you don’t want to miss!
Here’s a video of Jason Kenney and band in action at the Crimson Moon in Dahlonega. Enjoy!
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My wife and I attended the Dangermuffin concert last Saturday night at Eddie’s Attic, witnessing one of the freshest, finest performance in quite a while! Hard to believe it’s only three fellas up on stage. Playing in front of a packed house, they created such an amazing groove that had folks standing and boogeyin’ where you’re usually sitting! I personally can’t wait until their Friday Night Hootenanny Showcase at Starbridge on April 10! It’s going to be a very special set, mark my words.
FRI-SAT (April 10-11) $60ADV/$75 Gate
SAT ONLY (April 11) $55 ADV/$65 Gate
SAT DAY PASS (NO camping) ~ $50 GATE. Kids 12 & under are admitted FREE! Kids ages 13-16 $20 at gate. NO DOGS PLEASE!
Folks, due to unforeseen circumstances, we have moved the Spring edition of TDawg’s Back Porch Hootenanny to Starbridge Event Center in Murrayville, GA, just a few miles from the town center of Dahlonega, GA! Site of the annual HemlockFest that draws 3,000, we are thrilled to bring the Hoot to yet another gorgeous venue. Located 75 minutes from Atlanta up GA 400/115, Starbridge is the perfect site to create some more incredible music magic so come join us there!
The schedule is now complete for the inaugural Frank Hamilton Folk School Concert Series, held at the Red Light Cafe through the end of the year one Thursday each month! Stay tuned for a few more concerts and workshops TBA. Please read below for the complete schedule and spread the word! A portion of the proceeds from each concert benefits FHFS!
