Tom Kines

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Tom Kines (born August 3, 1922 in Roblin / Manitoba , † February 1, 1994 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian folk singer, folk music collector and multi-instrumentalist.

Kines began singing in public at the age of five and heard the first folk songs from his Irish grandfather. As a teenager he played in various local brass and dance bands. His studies at the University of Manitoba were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy in Northern Ireland and was on the board of the Royal Canadian Legion after the war in Ottawa .

In 1949 he was one of the founding members of the Tudor Singers of Ottawa , of which he was a member until 1961. This specialized in songs of the Elizabethan age . He has also appeared as a soloist in productions by the Ottawa Choral Society , the Toronto Bach Society , the Montreal Bach Choir and the Orpheus Operatic Society of Ottawa (in operatic roles by Gilbert and Sullivan ). He also worked as a church singer for thirty years.

However, he was best known as a folk singer. He has performed at concerts in Montreal and Stratford / Ontario, on the CBC radio and at the Mariposa Folk Festival , appeared in the children's series The Song Shop and Magic in Music on CBC television, and composers such as Maurice Blackburn , Robert Fleming , Eldon Rathburn and William France arranged songs for him with piano accompaniment. On the CBC radio he hosted the programs Puttin 'On the Style (1959), The Song Pedlar (1960-70) and Folk Fair (1977-79) and interviewed musicians such as Edith Fowke , Helen Creighton , OJ Abbott and Kenneth Peacock .

In 1960 his debut album Maids and Mistresses was released . The following year he was a soloist on a Japan tour of the Montreal Bach Choi . In 1962 he appeared with Alan Mills , Hélène Baillargeon and others in a folk program in New York's Town Hall . In the 1960s and 1970s, he gave more than seventy concerts for the Sasketchewan Junior Concert Society and the Eastern Ontario Libray Association , accompanying himself on the guitar, lute, autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer, recorder and other instruments.

His cantata Prairie Sailor put Kines together from folk melodies with his own texts. It was arranged for male choir by Robert Fleming and premiered at the 1970 CBC Summer Festival with him as soloist and Fleming as conductor. In 1964 his anthology Songs from Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time was published . From 1966 to 1987 he was director of the humanitarian organization CARE Canada . He also travels in this capacity (including Uganda, Somalia and Latin America) to collect folk songs and instruments from the regions. After 1987 he continued to promote folk music research and published recordings of traditional Canadian singers. His estate of instruments, books, manuscripts and recordings is in the possession of Carleton University .

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SURNAME Kines, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian folk singer, folk music collector and multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Roblin (Manitoba)
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1994
Place of death Ottawa