Get tickets online here.īeyond that, Hamilton’s busy summer includes performances at Blissfest, Cowpie Music Festival, Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Hoxeyville Music Festival and Pumpstock, as well as two appearances at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. He’ll join Julio Gomez, Eric Engblade and Patty PerShayla at Listening Room on May 17 in a special Local Spins edition of Nicholas James Thomasma’s “Songtellers” series. Hamilton, a member of Kalamazoo’s Last Gasp Collective who was named Local Spins’ Emerging Artist of the Year in early 2020, will be featured as part of a star-studded Local Spins’ 10th anniversary celebration in May. I want them to come for each other, not necessarily for me.” … I want my fan base to be more of a community. They’re generous with their time, generous with their energy. They’re always trying to support not only me, but various artists. I’m always surprised and grateful,” he said, crediting radio programmers such as those at WYCE who have a “keen ear” for his boundary-pushing tracks. “I’m always surprised when people listen to my music, let alone like it. PLAYING LOCAL SPINS’ ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND SUMMER FESTIVALS
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He plans to release a series of singles and EPs called the “Freedom Project” starting in May, when he’ll also kick off a host of public performances and summer festival appearances.
And he’s hoping to add to that discography in coming months. That album recorded with Andy Catlin, which Hamilton describes as speaking “to the classical part of my life,” is the first wholly instrumental project that he’s released.
Hamilton’s comeback even extends to airplay for an album, “Vibrations,” that he released more than a year ago: The instrumental recording jumped back into the Local Spins Hot Top 5 Chart for March, a chart representing the local and regional releases receiving the most airplay at Grand Rapids’ WYCE (88.1 FM). There are moments when it’s completely fine and there are moments where I just feel like everything’s ringing and I’m in a daze,” said Hamilton, adding that moving his left arm to play the cello can still be “a bumpy ride. “His car is absolutely destroyed.”įans and fellow musicians responded, raising more than $33,000 for the cause.Īnd with help from his mother and sister – and rehabilitation exercises – Hamilton has been back on stages doing what he does best: Wowing audiences with his musicianship, compelling songs and rhymes, and his uplifting attitude. “It is miraculous that he is not in worse shape,” fellow musician and friend Seth Bernard wrote in announcing a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to help cover Hamilton’s medical bills and lost income.
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