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Dolores Kirkwood has contributed significantly to the dance community as a dancer, choreographer, adjudicator and teacher. Her credits include dancing with Theatre Under the Stars, Vancouver International Festival, Western Canada Theatre Company in Kamloops, University of Oregon and UBC and highlights such as performing with Chita Rivera in Sweet Charity and with Jerry Orach in Most Happy Fella.…
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Robbie King was born on May 27, 1947 in Malarctic, Quebec, the son of big band musicians. Robbie was legendary for his incomparable style on B3 organ and bass pedals. At age 17, he left home to play clubs in Toronto. He moved west with The Good Shepherds and at 19 signed to Motown with…
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Fanny Kiefer moved to Canada from Montana in 1966. She began her career in the media at CJOR in 1978 when she had the distinction of being the first woman to host her own radio talk show. For ten years she hosted programs on CKNW; she also transitioned into television as host of her own…
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Website Todd Kerns calls British Columbia his home after spending most of his formative musical career in Vancouver. Todd Kerns was the front man for the band The Age of Electric, which received a Gold Record for the album Make a Pest a Pet. Todd has also appeared on numerous albums solidifying himself as one…
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Mart (Herbert Martin) Kenney was born in Toronto on March 7,1910. Kenney, an alto and baritone saxophonist and clarinetist who played during the late 1920s in the CJOR radio orchestra. Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen, Canada’s leading dance band in the 1930s and 1940s was formed in 1931 for an engagement at Vancouver’s Alexandra…
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