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Mike Hamer: musician and wheelchair dancer Mike Hamer joins Louise for a special music and storytelling performance that includes a disability awareness component. "People are still talking about you and Mike. Everyone comments on how the group was drawn together by Mike's sing-alongs and how warm and happy it all felt." Lynn Houser, Fairhope Alabama Public Library  Mike Hamer plays hammered dulcimer, harmonica and synthesizer along with Louise's stories. Songs and Stories swap off as Mike sings (and gets us ALL SINGING!) folk songs and his own original tunes. Mike is disabled as a result of a diving accident and uses a wheelchair. In performance Mike provides a great model of a disabled person living a full and active life. Louise and Mike have performed together for schools, libraries, retreats, folk concerts, faith communities, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, and more. When performing in schools a disability awareness discussion guide and a questions answer session following the performance are included with this program.  Mike Hamer Bio Mike Hamer has been entertaining adults and children with American folk songs, classic popular songs and children's songs for the past 30 years. Besides playing acoustic music, Mike plays swing and rhythm and blues with the Lemon Sisters and Rutabaga Brothers and has an Americana-style band that plays his original songs called Mike Hamer and the Rhinoceroses with the Angelic Choir. When a diving accident in 1985 left him a quadriplegic and unable to play his bass and guitar, Mike took up the hammered dulcimer and became a wheelchair dancer. Mike has released four albums of his original songs on the Black Swamp Music label. Hamer's most recent release is, BLACK CROW, a CD which features Hamer playing acoustic tunes he wrote accompanied by some of the best musicians in eastern North Carolina including, among others, Mike Lightnin' Wells, David DiGiuseppi, John Worthington and Mark Ford. Recordings Available:
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Mike Hamer phone: 252-830-0349 email: hamerm@mail.ecu.edu 100 Park Drive Greenville, NC 27858-1323 |
Louise Omoto Kessel phone: 919-542-5599 email: louiseok@mindspring.com 3348 Alston Chapel Road Pittsboro, NC 27312 |
