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Tina Date
2+ albums
female vocalistsfolkaustralian
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Tina Date is an Australian folk singer. She released her only album, "A Single Girl" in 1965. Tina was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and originally studied as a concert pianist. In the early 1960s, she was caught up in the folk revival; learnt guitar and rapidly became one of Australia premier folk music performers at concerts, on stage and on television. Shortly after the release of the LP, she travelled to Canada to visit her mother (Anita Aarons - a prominent jewellery artist)) and thence onto New York where she worked at the United Nations Headquarters. She also associated with the Greenwich Village folk performers and had appearances including a short period on TV. Her album is a eclectic mix of folk songs which also includes two songs from Shakespeare's Hamlet ("How Should I my True Love Know" and "Tomorrow is St. Valentine's Day") and an Elizabethan song "It Fell on a Summer's Day". Along with many traditional folk songs such as "The Spinnging Wheel", "Raggle Taggle Gypsies" and "The Butcher Boy", the album also features the track "It's Hard on a Lass to be Lonely" written by the Australian Poet Bill Scott. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
