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joHn in 6/8 time  a short film by Elspeth Johnson and Laura Giannuzzi.  
 
Exerpts from  article on joHn in  Senior Life.
Review of solo show for Riversong, fall of 2001  

From I'll Learn To Fly
Down By The River In The Early Morning.  © joHn Kennedy 1990  A song celebrating the Fawn River of northeast Indiana and southeast Michigan.
 
From Seamaisin: Live At The Tin Shop
The Great Kankakee  Remembering what was once one of American's great wetlands, and rivers.  
 
From upcoming CD  All My Life
All My Life  © joHn Kennedy 1999
Amber  © joHn Kennedy 1999
Old Stones and Bits of Grass  © joHn Kennedy 1999
Land By the Sea  Joel Cooper sings © Joel Cooper 1999

joHn Kennedy is a storyteller who sings, and a singer who tells stories.  Every evening with his music is a new creation: sometimes hilarious, often deeply moving.  Singing with a unique rich voice, his songs honor the past, give meaning to the work that we do, and hope for the future.  At his solo shows you'll hear: The Great Kankakee, a song about what was once one of the continents great rivers, America's greatest wetland, a place within an hours drive of South Bend, Indiana, joHn's home; Patrick Coyle, the saga of joHn's Donegal Ireland born grandfather.  You'll sing-along to I Want to Ride on a Sailing Ship, a children's song from joHn's first solo CD, a 1996 release chosen by WVPE's backporch as one of the top ten folk releases of that year. 

joHn is a songwriter, award-winning multi-instrumentalist,  singer, producer, promoter, and the leader Kennedy's Kitchen, a South Bend based group dedicated to playing Irish music.  He helped to form and lead the traditional Irish band Seamaisin in 1990 and co-produced two recordings with that group (Joseph Harvey's Fiddle was Left in the Rain,and Seamaisin: Live at The Tin Shop). Seamaisin also produced and scored music for the sound track of the short-film, Araby, an adaptation of James Joyce's short story of the same name.  Araby was nominated for an Academy Award in the Student Narrative Film category.

joHn is the 2004 All-Ireland Fleadh Silver Medalist in Accompaniment, competing on guitar.  He is also took gold in Midwest Fleadh in Ballad Singing (English Language)  in the 2004 and 2005.   joHn is the 2003 Midwest Fleadh Gold Medalist in Accompaniment.  

joHn has appeared on stage with the great concertian player John Williams and with Mick Maloney.  With Kennedy's Kitchen he opened for SOLAS, The Celtic Fiddle Festival, and Natalie McMaster.  Together with the Kitchen he appeared on stage with the Chieftains for the encore at the 2005 concert at the University of Notre Dame.  In 2006 he shared equal billing with Tommy Makem as part of Kennedy's Kitchen at the DeBartollo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame.

 joHn's solo CD I'll Learn To Fly, was chosen by WVPE FM 88.1's The Back Porch program as one of the top ten folk releases of 1998.  He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Chile 79-81) and has a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.  He served on the faculty of Notre Dame from 1991 until 2001.  He is now a full-time musician.