Matt are you aware who Stringsinger is?
he was also a member of the Weavers and is a very highly respected teacher and performer
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Frank Hamilton

Frank Hamilton teaching at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, IL. November 2007
Background information
Genres         Folk
Occupations         Singer-songwriter, music teacher
Instruments         guitar,banjo
Associated acts         Win Stracke, Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Big Bill Broonzy

Frank Hamilton (Born August 3, 1934)[1] is an American folk musician and co-founder of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois. As a performer, he has recorded for Folkways Records and, as a member of the folk group The Weavers, for Vanguard Records, as well as for Philips and several other labels and appeared at the first Newport Folk Festival in 1959. He was the house musician for The Gate of Horn in Chicago, the nation's first folk music nightclub. He was also a member of The Weavers in the early 1960s.

As a young man, Hamilton met and played with Woody Guthrie at Will Geer's artist colony in Topanga, California in the mid 1950s.[2] In 1956 Frank Hamilton met Win Stracke at the Gate of Horn. Using teaching methods he observed with Bess Lomax in Topanga Canyon, together, Win and Frank founded the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago. There they developed a teaching method with an emphasis on group learning. On the opening night, Frank taught the class a song demonstrated by Big Bill Broonzy. Frank served as dean of the school and taught there until joining The Weavers, with whom he played from 1962-1963.[3][4]

Hamilton continues to teach and perform today with his wife Mary.