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The Kingston Trio will mark its 60-plus years with Keep the Music Playing national tour coming to The Colonnade Nov. 16. Review for The Kingston Trio: Fans of legendary folk icons The Kingston Trio ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It’s a different lineup than the original band, but the Kingston Trio still wants to bring ...

Bob Shane, one third of the enormously popular folk institution known as the Kingston Trio, has died. The New York Times reports that Shane died on Sunday while in hospice care in Phoenix. Shane, the ...

ONE OF MARIN’S great singer-songwriters got a lifetime achievement award at the Grammys on Sunday night, an event, I’m guessing, that went unnoticed by most of us. That’s seems to be the story of John ...

Director Chip Miller was listening to a local bar band in a 500-year-old pub in Ireland. Curious, he turned to a young man and asked, "Who are your favorite American musicians?" Without blinking, the ...

Back in 1957, when Beaver Cleaver faced second grade and Ike faced the Cold War with more golf, Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds decided to give the folk music thing a try. Good move. Their ...

Lyssa Cohn spent three weeks in the hospital, listening to Bob Shane sing. “I live with chronic emphysema,” explains the 32-year-old, who was hospitalized twice last year for oxygen therapy and with ...