voc, CA
Singer of Folk and World
Scottish/Canadian folk singer & multi-instrumentalist, d. March 2013 From Glasgow, Scotland and for most of his adult life, Toronto. Co-founder of Toronto's Fiddlers' Green folk club. Definitely the mouthpiece of the band, Tam sang and played guitar, banjo and mandolin among other things, and was possessed of an unmistakably Glaswegian ability to find humour in anything, even his own erstwhile day job in the Metropolitan Toronto sewage treatment plant. "It may be shit to you, but it's bread and butter to me". Tam Kearney passed away in March 2013, and hundreds of old friends and fans sang, laughed, told stories and celebrated his life at his memorial, held on Tam's birthday, St Patrick's Day. An obituary was posted on the Sing Out! Magazine website.
The Friends Of Fiddler's Green |