This article is about the band. For the sculptor, see Daniel Chester French.
Chester French
French in 2008
Background information
Origin
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres
Indie pop
synthpop
neo-psychedelia
futurepop
alternative hip hop[1]
Years active
2003–2013
Labels
Star Trak
Interscope
K-LP Karmaloop
Past members
Maxwell Drummey
Michael William Judge
David-Andrew 'D.A.' Wallach
Damien Chazelle
Justin Hurwitz
Website
www.chesterfrench.com
Chester French was an American indie pop band consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter David-Andrew 'D.A.' Wallach and multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Maxwell Drummey. They met as college students at Harvard University, naming their band after sculptor Daniel Chester French, who designed the statue at the Lincoln Memorial, the John Harvard statue, as well as the Minuteman statue at the Lexington/Concord battlegrounds in Massachusetts.[2] Milwaukee-raised Wallach and Boston native Drummey quickly found a lot of shared ground in musical tastes and philosophies and before long formed a band with three other classmates, playing various campus functions, eventually moving in a direction heavily influenced by classic British Northern Soul. Over the summer both stayed in Cambridge, working hard at songwriting. But when school resumed, they realized that the material went way beyond the basic guitar-bass-drums-piano format of the band, and the duo continued the work themselves, Wallach handling most of the vocals, Drummey performing much of the music on multiple instruments, supplemented with the occasional special guest – and both taking production and engineering duties for recordings.
^"Chester French | Check Out New Hip Hop Artists & Upcoming Rappers". HipHop DX. 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2013-09-05.
^"Band puts high-brow training into play". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. January 23, 2004. Archived from the original on 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
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on the Sen. Mark Hanna Monument in Cleveland, Ohio, and with Daniel ChesterFrench on several monuments, notably the Lincoln Memorial's pensive colossal...
father went to Richmond, Virginia, to serve as an apprentice to Daniel ChesterFrench, the sculptor who created the statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln...
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at Bolshoi Theater Quadriga by Daniel ChesterFrench, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 Daniel ChesterFrench and Edward Clark Potter, Minnesota State...
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gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois by Daniel ChesterFrench. The colossal original statue, a centerpiece of the World's Columbian...
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The Minute Man is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel ChesterFrench in Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts. It was created between 1871...
from the Norman-French) of Chester from the late eleventh century, and they held land all over England, comprising "the honour of Chester". By the late...
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