Artist / Band

Tom Mawhinney

Origin Kingston → Moscow, Ontario, 🇨🇦

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tmawhinney.ca

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Biography

A full time street singer in Vancouver in 1976, I have sung in the Paris and Amsterdam flea markets, and in the streets of Nice and environs. Released 5 albums of adult material and 3 of children's in the 80's. Wrote for choirs only from 2005 to 2018, then began writing folk solo material again in response to threats to my country from the south This new album has been the most fun of all!

Musical CV: Tom Mawhinney

church choir member from age 5
original busker at Kingston farmers’ market 1976-1995 (autoharp)

LP albums of original folk/folk-rock/blues:
1980 Await the Time
1982 Highway Number One
1984 Nurture the Spark
1984 Zucchini Alley
1988 Zucchini Alley II
1986 Lucky Be We
1989 Countercurrent
2000 Below the Radar (compendium)
2000 Zucchini Alley (compendium)
2008 Emancipation Gospel
2017 3 Choirs at Christmas
2019 We’ll Sing for Pleasure, We’ll Sing to Please, songbook of original music for choirs

40 appearance 10 province tour in 1992 (The Original Trans-Canada Anti-Commercial
Direct Contact Full Age Spectrum Organic Acoustic Busking Tour)
Festivals: All Folks (Kingston), Festival of Friends (Hamilton), Home County (London),
Blue Skies (Clarendon), others.

drummer/vocalist in Diner (early ’80’s), Clergy Street Beat (later ‘80s)

host of CKLC Kingston weekly radio show Listen Folks (1986-87)
host of CKWS Kingston weekly radio show The Folk Process (1988-89)

CBC interviews: Morningside (1980), Gabereau (1992), Ontario Morning (numerous
appearances), several regional shows in 1992, several comments on As It Happens talkback.

music therapist (PhD) at Kingston Therapeutic Nursery 1983-1986
music therapist at Beechgrove Children’s Centre 1986-1997
music therapist at pediatric oncology clinic, KGH, 2001-2007
director, (20 member fundraising) Voices of Joy Gospel Choir, 2004-2009

283 Huffman Rd., Yarker, Ontario K0K3N0
tamawhinney@gmail.com
352 697 1184

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