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Well, I guess I started making coherent, musical sounds when I was about five years old at a restaurant in Canton, Massachusettes. There was a band playing, and Dad convinced them to let me sing Country Roads. So there began my career.
We moved to PEI (where both parents are from) then I really started raking in the dough in the kitchen where I’d get paid a quarter per song when company came over. Do know how many songs it takes to buy a guitar? Too many, so I worked at tobacco and bought my 12 string Takamine when I was 14 from money I earned pulling weeds in the tobacco fields. Whoa... I think there’s a country song in there somewhere.
I did the circuit; talent contests, benefits, weddings, concerts, festivals and funerals, and in 1983, I was invited to participate on a compilation album of PEI artists called “Our Songs”. I was then catapulted into stardom, appearing as a guest on “Sounds of the Island”; a weekly musical variety CBC television series which aired in the early 1980s. Then in 1984, I was invited to sing for Pope John Paul II during his visit to Halifax, Nova Scotia. That was an incredible experience; climbing all those stairs to the stage... I wonder if he liked my rendition of “Georgia”.
I grew up and moved away like so many young Islanders do. But, like so many before me, I was lured back home by the gentle whisper of the waves and my mother’s Half Hour Pudding, so in 1999, I landed back home with a ¼ ton truck and a husband.
I hadn't done much singing over the years, but dove back in about 2006 or so. Since then, I play as much as I can and now have 3 records with my name on them.
I love to sing and play and I love my husband and red-haired stepdaughter. So when I’m not singing and playing, I’m watching the airplanes take off next door to our house on our sprawling ½ acre estate in East Royalty, Prince Edward Island.
» http://www.kelleymooney.com
| Friday, December 13, 2019 |
| Kelley Mooney |
| 7:00 PM |
St. John's Anglican Church |
Milton, PE, Canada |
with Jon Matthews and Allison Kelly
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| Sunday, December 15, 2019 |
| Kelley Mooney |
| 2:00 PM |
King's Playhouse |
Georgetown, PE, Canada |
Christmas with FASCINATING LADIES
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| Thursday, December 19, 2019 |
| Kelley Mooney |
| 8:00 PM |
Baba's Lounge |
Charlottetown, PE, Canada |
with ISLAND JAZZ - Christmas jazz - can't beat that!
» https://www.facebook.com/IslandJazzPEI/ |
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| Friday, December 20, 2019 |
| Kelley Mooney |
| 7:00 PM |
Trinity United Church |
Summerside, PE, Canada |
with JON MATTHEWS AND ALLISON KELLY
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| Saturday, December 28, 2019 |
| Kelley Mooney |
| 9:00 PM |
The Old Triangle |
Charlottetown, PE, Canada |
with LADY SOUL
» https://www.oldtrianglecharlottetown.com/welcome/ |
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