Don Hammontree:

Raised in blue-collar Peoria, Ill., Don Hammontree – who attended the same elementary and high schools singer Dan Fogelberg had graduated from nearly two decades earlier – started playing keyboards at 13 and guitar at 14. Eventually ending up in Chicago, Hammontree played and wrote songs in a number of bands – The Stalins, Sharp Round Edges, The Bonnie Situation and Flatiron – before co-founding Six Feet Over in 1997 with singer Kim Koppel and drummer Mike Helenthal. The band released two albums – “Another Day Like Today” in 1997 and “This” in 1999 before disbanding in 2000.

Currently a solo artist residing in Massachusetts, Hammontree has gigged all along the East Coast and the American heartland and has also performed in Poland and Ukraine. He has released three solo CDs: “Mount Hope Days” in 2003; “The Mumbai EP” in 2005, and “Brutalist School” in 2010.

Hammontree is the guitarist and vocalist for the Cambridge-based band Bad Fogelberg, who released their debut CD in spring of 2017. He also recorded an album with the group Why England Slept, “House of Pizza,” in 2024.

Summer Music Series

Local Musicians – Thursdays @ 5:30 on the Library lawn, weather permitting. Rain location will be inside the library.

Some seating will be provided, but feel free to bring your beach blankets or camp chairs!

Come listen to some relaxing music and vocals by local musicians.

Performances are free, thanks to a generous donor.