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Chris Frank has
been making music for almost 50 years. His Hawaiian music teacher showed him some
chords on the ukulele when he was in kindergarten, and he just kept playing.
His professional debut was at the age of fourteen, playing bass
in his brother's garage band. They actually had a gig, saving Senior Prom night
from disaster by filling in for the "professionals" who never showed up. At
fifteen he got a "steady" job with "Gib Krisinger & His Orchestra" playing
fireman's balls and country clubs almost every Friday and Saturday Night. It was
a six-piece band with an average age of about 40, and he learned "Moonglow" and
"The Sheik of Araby" and many of their relatives in his four years with Gib.
(They stopped booking gigs around 2001. It was his dad's band before he took over,
so the Krisinger band probably worked over a 50 year period.)
From there it was sensitive singer-songwriter (the "college years", where he also picked up a degree in music
at the University of Iowa), elementary school teacher, a few years on the
road, solo and with a few bands, and finally settling down in Chapel Hill, NC. He eventually
wormed his way into
The Red Clay Ramblers,
and continues with them today. The Ramblers are active in concert, film
(scoring and appearing in two of Sam Shepard's works) and stage, thrice thrust upon the Broadway boards,
winning a Tony
Award in 1999 for "Fool Moon" with David Shiner and Bill Irwin, and
off-Broadway in 2005 with "Lone Star Love".
Locally, Chis has most recently been spotted at the piano in
the lounge at Chapel Hill's Weathervane (Southern Season) , Carolina Alumni Club
and at private parties.
Chris's "day job" for the past ten years has been scoring music
for film and TV. If you stay up late you can sometimes catch TLC's "The Operation"
which he scored for six years, and numerous Discovery Channel documentaries, including
"The Bald Truth" and "Joined at Birth". He is currently at work on a UNC-TV documentary
about Jesse Helms, due to air spring 2007.
Chris founded efolkMusic in 1998 as "an internet business, not a dot-com." In 2003 efolkMusic was incorporated
as a nonprofit to better support this valuable but non-commercial art form.
E-mail
him your comments and suggestions,
and send him your music. He promises to listen.
Good Business
If I possessed a shop or store, I'd drive the grouches from
the floor,
I'd never keep a boy or clerk, with mental toothache at his work,
Or let a man who draws my pay drive customers of mine away.
I'd treat the man who takes my time, and only spends a single
dime,
With courtesy to make him feel that I was pleased to make the deal,
For someday, who can tell, he may want stuff I have to sell,
And in that case then glad he'll be to spend his dollars with me.
The reason people pass one door to patronize another store,
Is not because the busier place has finer gloves, or silk, or lace,
Or better prices, but it lies in pleasant words and smiling eyes,
The only difference, I believe, is in the treatment folks receive.
by Edgar A.Guest
(Unwittingly memorized by the young entrepreneur from the
bathroom wall at Ross's Supermarket, Griswold, IA, during his formative years under the business tutelage of Ross Armentrout)
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