Kelly Walker
Kelly Walker
Now and again you find a voice, a message and a man wrapped into one to bring songs to the heart of a people. Kelly Walker is it! The words, the music, the stories combine to create a most entertaining and inspiring Canadian performer.
The man. The music. The message. All this comes from a 20-year monastic experience with the Dominican Order where Kelly lived in Quebec, Ontario, the USA and Italy. After a severe burnout, Kelly left the monastery and began a career in music, which had always been the golden thread in his life. He toured with the Irish singer-harpist, Mary O'Hara and appeared on her TV series in the UK. His concert career has placed him on major stages in Canada and the US. He served as artistic director of HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, a benefit concert to support LOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES for 12 years.
In the past years he has worked with Paul Zaza, Dominic Morrissey, Bill King and Wayne Kelso in concert. He has done many concerts with with the Canadian tenor, Mark DuBois. His CD River Ash is a collection of 16 piano improvisations. His CD All My Life is a collection of his newest songs with full orchestration. Kelly has joined together with Sally Armour Wotton, actor, and Alexandra Caverley Lowery, dancer, to found a school for the performing arts called SACRED ACTS, which is Toronto based.
He is an author. His books Loss of Soul: Burnout and Dancing on the Ark: Facing Change in Uncertain Times (what every Noah ought to know) are in their second printing and his new book entitled Growing Somewhere: life after mid-life is a third Canadian best seller. He has addressed thousands of groups as a public speaker throughout the world.
He has been awarded the Pauline McGibbon Life Achievement in the Arts award.
He lives with his partner Ray Harsant in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
The man. The music. The message. All this comes from a 20-year monastic experience with the Dominican Order where Kelly lived in Quebec, Ontario, the USA and Italy. After a severe burnout, Kelly left the monastery and began a career in music, which had always been the golden thread in his life. He toured with the Irish singer-harpist, Mary O'Hara and appeared on her TV series in the UK. His concert career has placed him on major stages in Canada and the US. He served as artistic director of HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, a benefit concert to support LOFT COMMUNITY SERVICES for 12 years.
In the past years he has worked with Paul Zaza, Dominic Morrissey, Bill King and Wayne Kelso in concert. He has done many concerts with with the Canadian tenor, Mark DuBois. His CD River Ash is a collection of 16 piano improvisations. His CD All My Life is a collection of his newest songs with full orchestration. Kelly has joined together with Sally Armour Wotton, actor, and Alexandra Caverley Lowery, dancer, to found a school for the performing arts called SACRED ACTS, which is Toronto based.
He is an author. His books Loss of Soul: Burnout and Dancing on the Ark: Facing Change in Uncertain Times (what every Noah ought to know) are in their second printing and his new book entitled Growing Somewhere: life after mid-life is a third Canadian best seller. He has addressed thousands of groups as a public speaker throughout the world.
He has been awarded the Pauline McGibbon Life Achievement in the Arts award.
He lives with his partner Ray Harsant in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
