Kevin Kane

Kevin Kane has recorded and released many collections of his original songs. Some of them are available here. He has recorded extensively with noted violinist Jim Nolet, trumpet player Chris Anderson from the band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, sax players Bill Saxton and Kevin McMahon, vocalists Joyce Dee, April Ruffin, Stephen Chapman and other extraordinary singers. Guitarist/songwriter Hugh Birdsall has helped a lot. Kevin's made the better part of his living as a writer, musician and playwright. His Negro League version of "Casey at the Bat", called “Breaking the Line with the Mudville Nine” was written for and first performed at the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame. Kevin has done readings of his poem at New York City’s 92nd Street Y, at the Society for American Baseball Research’s national conference and at many libraries and colleges, most recently in Kansas City at the National Conference on Baseball and Literature. His play, A Love of the Game, was first developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference where he had also worked as an actor and tech director. He's had many plays produced in New York City and in regional theaters, performs often as a singer/songwriter, was a performance representative for August Wilson, taught theater for ten years at Wagner College on Staten Island, and received significant grants for his writing, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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