Cam Kemp

Cam has been playing and performing folk and blues for over 40 years, starting to play guitar at 11 years of age in 1956, learning the folksongs sung by his grandfather and father. Influenced by his brother Ian a jazz clarinet player, at 14 he began playing banjo and guitar in a local jazz band where his interest in blues began, soon learning to both fingerpick guitar in blues styles influenced by Big Bill Broonzy and Mississippi John Hurt, and flat picking in the styles of Rambling Jack Elliott and Doc Watson. By the 60's Cam was playing regularly in the folk scene including performing at festivals such as the "English Folk Song and Dance Festival". Today Cam lives in Kitchener, Ontario and performs regularly in folk clubs and festivals in Ontario either by himself or with his singing partner Patricia MacLeod.

His first full CD "Rambling On My Mind" was released in August 1998, and he also appeared on a 1999 compilation CD of performers that have appeared at the Black Walnut Folk Club. October 2002 saw the release of his new CD, "The Psychological Significance of Human Behavior in Folk Music as Interpreted by a Sensitive Singer Songwriter & all that Jazz", a recording featuring, for the first time, eight of his own songs. Cam's song writing is influenced by the songs of Woody Guthrie and Norman Blake.