Win Stracke

Folksinger Gain Stracke is remembered much less for his executing profession than for his initiatives in co-founding Chicago’s renowned Aged Town College of Folk Music. Stracke was created and elevated in Chicago, but after graduating from senior high school in 1926, he relocated to Thermopolis, WY, functioning being a roustabout and coalminer; from a fellow itinerant employee named Flat Steering wheel Harry, he discovered traditional tracks like “THE BEST Rock Candy Hill,” and started performing before local labor groupings. Upon time for Chicago in 1931, Stracke employed on with radio place WLS being a bass vocalist, executing alongside the Cumberland Ridge Athletes as well as the Smoky Hill Singers and additional immersing himself in labor arranging efforts. During Globe Battle II, he offered in European countries and North Africa, time for Chicago to become listed on Studs Terkel, Big Costs Broonzy, and Laurence Street in the folk music revue I Emerged for to Sing. In 1953 Stracke was tapped to web host his own tv plan, the NBC children’s preferred Pet Playtime, and he also made an appearance regularly in the Dave Garroway Present. In 1957, while showing up at the renowned Chicago folk membership the Gate of Horn, he befriended musician Frank Hamilton and folk aficionado Dawn Greening, with whom he’d co-found the Aged Town College — starting that Dec 1, the institution continues to be a Chicago organization even today, launching the professions of performers including Steve Goodman, John Prine, Roger McGuinn, and Ginni Clemmens. Although mainly a live performer, Stracke afterwards documented two LPs, A Golden Treasury of Music and Americana, furthermore to writing several original music steeped in the annals of Chicago and America — in 1968, he and Norman Luboff authored the cantata “Independence Country” honoring the Illinois sesquicentennial. Stracke passed away of a heart stroke in 1991.