Seth Mulder & Midnight Run (USA): European tour May-June 2022

Thanks to Dave Byrne jr of the mygrassisblue.com team in Co. Wicklow, for the welcome news that Seth Mulder & Midnight Run, the fine Tennessee band who were almost our last US visitors before the pandemic, will be back in Ireland next spring as part of a European tour organised by mygrassisblue.com. Dave writes:

After announcing the tour itself on July 28 of last year, when in dire need of something to look forward to in midst of the pandemic, we are pleased to be announcing on this July 28 the actual tour schedule. All going to plan and assuming no further disruptions as a result of the pandemic, the tour will run for three-plus weeks stopping off at bluegrass-friendly venues in a minimum of 9 different countries; this is the initial schedule with some select dates still to be pencilled into the schedule (although none in the Republic I’m afraid). It’s going to be fun.

Of the collaboration, Seth Mulder adds:

'We’re so excited to be teaming up with mygrassisblue.com. They have a passion for the music and a drive to connect bands with new audiences all over Europe! Plus they’re great people to boot. We had the opportunity of meeting them on our last tour in Ireland and really enjoyed the time we got to spend around them. They’ve got great things in the works and we’re looking forward to working with them over the next few years.'

The schedule can also be seen on the band's Facebook. Brief video clips from Midnight Run's sets at Bunratty in Jan. 2020 are on the mygrassisblue.com website.

© Richard Hawkins

Remembering Athy Bluegrass Festival 1991 (and some more history)

All praise to Tony O'Brien for his commemoration on Facebook of the thirtieth anniversary, last weekend, of the very first Athy Bluegrass Festival. Tony has posted photos and videos, and many friends of the Athy festivals (including visiting musicians who have played there over the years) have sent in their comments.

Shortly before the 25th Athy festival, Richard Thompson posted a substantial feature about Athy on Bluegrass Today (4 June 2015). Tony's contributions to that feature constitute an important part of the record of bluegrass music in this island.

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Footnote: The claim of the North-West Bluegrass Festival, first held in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, in Nov. 1990 (see the BIB for 19 June 2019) to be the first bluegrass festival in Ireland, should not be overlooked. The 1991 Athy festival, however, was on an altogether different scale, with three well-known US bands and a strong host band in a concert hall, plus a programme of auxiliary events.

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Two other significant additions to bluegrass history have appeared recently on Bluegrass Today: Pete Wernick's account of the recording of Rounder 0006 in 1971, which launched the musicians into professional careers and a wider influence than they ever expected; and Kathy Kallick, in the first instalment of a major interview with Dave Berry, describes her experiences as a woman in bluegrass (and in all-woman bands) over the years. Both very well worth reading.

© Richard Hawkins

IBMA World Of Bluegrass 2021: awards and nominations news

Thanks to Uri Kohen, director of the Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival in Co. Mayo, for drawing attention to the awards and nominations for awards at this year's IBMA World Of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC. Full details are given in press releases by Casey Campbell in the 'Latest news' section of the World Of Bluegrass website.

Three inductions into the Bluegrass Music Hall Of Fame have been made: Alison Krauss, who first played in Ireland in 1994 with her band Union Station; singer, banjoist, and bandleader Lynn Morris, whose band headlined the Athy Bluegrass Festival in 1995 or '6; and the Stoneman Family, of whom the unique Roni Stoneman toured Ireland in 2013 and 2016.

Five IBMA Distinguished Achievement Awards have been made: to industry leader Nancy Cardwell Webster, broadcaster Lee Michael Demsey, Czech luthier/ performer Jaroslav Prucha, musician/ performer Cliff Waldron, and Stan Zdonik of the Boston Bluegrass Union. Presentations will be made on 30 Sept. during the Business Conference section of World Of Bluegrass.

Nominations for awards include, as always, a fair number of artists who have visited Ireland over the years, though these are less common among the nominations for industry and momentum awards; however, Leanne Thorose, lead singer and mandolinist of the GB/NI band Midnight Skyracer, is a nominee for the Momentum Vocalist of the Year award.

© Richard Hawkins

Tony Trischka on Deering Live TONIGHT (29 July)

The Deering Banjo Company announce that the featured artist on Deering Live tonight will be Tony Trischka, outstanding as banjo performer, composer, mentor, and communicator, as well as being a Deering artist. Deering announce (links added by BIB): 'In this episode, we delve deep into Tony's current album, Shall we hope. We will also talk about the ArtistWorks platform and how it can help you become a better banjo player.' The interview can be watched live on YouTube at 11.00 p.m. Irish time.

Shall we hope was reviewed on Bluegrass Today last month by Tabitha Agnew Benedict (see the BIB for 9 June).

Deering also feature their range of banjo heads, which now includes a Skin Tone head in 11" size, giving a sound intermediate between Fiberskyn and Renaissance, at $50.

© Richard Hawkins

We Banjo 3 on tour in USA, late 2021-early 2022

Galway's We Banjo 3 announce:

Tour, tour, tour!!

Wow, we are finally ready to announce some tour dates. It's been a really long haul to get here and there are still some hurdles to cross but we are so excited to get back on the road and meet you all in person again. We're nervous and trepidatious for sure as it's been so long and so much has changed, but it will be amazing to finally do what we love so much, for all of you we love so much!

Tickets for any of the thirty-one dates shown on the band's website schedule can be bought here. All are in the USA, between 1 Sept. 2021 and 19 Mar. 2022. More bookings are to be announced soon.

© Richard Hawkins

New book - and a mammoth classic - from Barry R. Willis

The BIB editor writes:

It was a very pleasant surprise to find a comment by Barry R. Willis added to the BIB post two weeks ago on the death of Byrone Berline. Barry Willis is a banjo-player, airline pilot, radio presenter, and novelist. He has also made a major contribution to bluegrass historiography: America's music: bluegrass. A history of bluegrass music in the words of its pioneers, first published in 1997, with over six hundred pages. I reviewed it in the December 1997 issue of the Irish Bluegrass Music Club Newsletter, beginning with the words 'This is a great nourishing Christmas pudding of a book, stuffed full of all sorts of good things.' To pick one example: the chapter on Carlton Haney, published the year before Haney was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.

The first edition is long out of print but can still be found, for instance, on Amazon.co.uk. Moreover, it can be downloaded from Barry's website, where the audio interviews on which the book is based can also be accessed. I strongly advise any reader to use also the voluminous section of the website with a wealth of additional research material, which includes important corrections to the published text - for instance, Jimmy Martin's vigorous defence of his reputation.

As well as the magnum opus of America's music, Barry has published two novels drawing on his own life experiences: The banjo pilot (2018) and Icy Strait, which appeared earlier this year. A feature by Richard Thompson on Icy Strait appeared two weeks ago on Bluegrass Today. The photo on the right above shows Barry at the launch of The banjo pilot.

He has also launched a blog for discussion of controversial issues in bluegrass music; the first (July 2021) issue concerns the credit for 'inventing' bluegrass (a subject that evoked conflicting views when it was raised on Bluegrass Today at the end of 2020), and the second (August 2021) is on Bill Monroe's early fiddlers. Don't miss the coming episode on Bill Keith's part in creating the book Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo.

© Richard Hawkins

Editorial hiatus

The BIB editor will be out of the editorial chair on pleasure bent for a few days, starting tomorrow (Tuesday 20 July); so please keep sending in news, but don't expect it to appear before Tuesday 27 July at the earliest.

News of past visitors

Cedar Hill (right), the hard-core traditional bluegrass band from the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas, who have made several warmly acclaimed appearances at Omagh festivals and other venues here in the past, released their first single on the Mountain Fever Records label earlier this year; it went to #2 on the Bluegrass Today Top 20 song chart.

Mountain Fever now announce a new single from the band, 'Tend to my flowers', which is being released today (16 July). As the press release says, the song 'speaks about the heart-wrenching issues of Alzheimer’s disease and aging that many can relate to'.

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Dale Ann Bradley, also an Omagh headliner, has made a video, released by Pinecastle, of the song 'Falling down' from her current album. The theme is the fear everyone has of falling and failure. The musicians taking part in the video include the splendid Jim Hurst, who toured here in 2019. The songwriter, Ashby Frank, toured here ten years earlier as mandolinist with the Special Consensus. It's a fine song, and this rendering is well worth seeing on video as well as hearing. You can do both on Bluegrass Today or YouTube.

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Chris Jones & the Night Drivers (also touring here in autumn 2019 after performing at Omagh that year) brought out a week ago their new single, 'Riding the Chief', on the Mountain Home Music label, co-written by Chris and Thomm Jutz. It can be heard on Bluegrass Today and music streaming platforms.

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Lluís Gómez, whose Barcelona Bluegrass Band became a favourite at successive Johnny Keenan Banjo Festivals, will be showcasing with his Flamencograss Quartet at this year's IBMA World Of Bluegrass (see the BIB for 1 July). A welcome taste of their music is the original composition 'La flor', dedicated to Lluís's father, which can be seen and heard on Bluegrass Today and YouTube. Warmly recommended.

© Richard Hawkins

Commemorating Byron Berline

Following upon the death last Saturday (10 July) of the great fiddle player Byron Berline, Richard Thompson on Bluegrass Today gives the details of his memorial service, which will take place this coming Tuesday (20 July).

Tributes to him include those from Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, which includes in its latest weekly e-newsletter links to a 40-track Spotify playlist of recordings from Byron's long career, to a 1972 BU feature on the highly influential band Country Gazette of which he was a founder member, and to a 1992 feature on the band California, the final development from Berline, Crary, & Hickman.

PS: A long, heartfelt tribute from Dan Crary can be read on the European Bluegrass Music Association Facebook.

PPS: An appreciation by Jack Tottle is on Bluegrass Today.

© Richard Hawkins

For the 21st-century fiddler

More info from FOAOTMAD today: Sue Taniguchi of Taniguchi Violins in Brixham, Devon, south-west England, is now selling Incredibows, made of carbon fibre, in an assortment of colours (right) at £125 each. She also re-hairs traditional wooden bows with Incredihair, a polymer filament that, by report, never wears out.

An independent assessment of the Incredibow can be seen on YouTube. Full details are on the Incredibow website. Sue Taniguchi can be contacted by 'phone (+44 01803 858739) or e-mail. Does any BIB reader know of an Incredibow supplier in Ireland?

© Richard Hawkins

Bluegrass and old-time picking weekend in Merseyside (GB), 9-12 Sept. 2021

While we're waiting for the rebirth of the live event scene in Ireland, those who badly need to hear live picking in quantity again may want to consider a weekend in England in early September (if it should be possible then). The FOAOTMAD news blog announces the Junction Old Time and Bluegrass Picking Weekend, scheduled for 9-12 Sept. 2021 and centred on The Junction pub at 102 News Lane, Rainford, St Helens, Merseyside, WA11 7JU. FOAOTMAD say 'between Liverpool and Manchester'; on the map, it's more between Liverpool and Wigan.

The poster (click image to enlarge) gives ample details - there are 100 camping spaces for tents, caravans, or motorhomes, and spaces can be booked in advance. More details of prices and contact data are on the FOATMAD blog (today's date), and you can keep in touch with developments on the Junction's Facebook.

© Richard Hawkins

'Bluegrass Country Soul' to be shown at its birthplace on 3 Sept. 2021

Thanks to Ellen Pasternack, executive director of Bluegrass Country Soul, Inc., for this news:

This Labor Day weekend [Sat. 4 Sept.-Mon. 6 Sept.] will mark the 50th anniversary of the filming of 'Bluegrass Country Soul', shot in 1971 at Carlton Haney’s Blue Grass Park in Camp Springs, NC. This year’s festival will include a celebratory screening of 'Bluegrass Country Soul', at 9.30 p.m. on Friday, September 3, on the very site where the movie was filmed!

We’ve created the following short video as part of our celebrations of this historic event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1AwQsUvfg.

The video is just under two minutes long. Other video clips from the film, or about the making of it, are on the Bluegrass Country Soul YouYube channel.

© Richard Hawkins

No Depression's ten favourite roots albums of 2021 (so far)

No Depression magazine announces on its website its 'Favorite roots music albums of 2021 (so far)', with brief notes by different staff members on the ten albums listed. The artists most closely associated with the bluegrass and old-time scenes are Sarah Jarosz with her Blue heron suite at #7, and Rhiannon Giddens (with Francesco Turrisi) with They're calling me home at #5. Giddens and Jarosz are shown in the upper left-hand corner of the image above.

Doug Heselgrave writes: 'They're calling me home is, without reservation, her finest work to date. Intimately recorded and emotionally accessible, it is a near perfect album in which the diversity of Giddens’ musical interests coalesces to fulfill the promise hinted at in everything she has recorded up until this point.'

Variety announces, in this feature by Chris Willman, that Rhiannon Giddens will be giving a 75-minute 'mini-memoir', entitled 'To balance on bridges', on the Audible platform in its 'Words+Music' series, on Thursday next week (22 July). More details, and a 2-minute audio trailer, are here.

© Richard Hawkins

Byron Berline, 6 July 1944-10 July 2021

The sad news comes of the death on Saturday 10 July of master fiddler Byron Berline, from complications following a stroke. The great breadth and variety of his achievements is indicated in Wikipedia; Heinz Walliser's page about him, using substantially the same text, also gives photos and nine videos. David Morris's tribute on Bluegrass Today gives four videos, including one of his TV appearance on 'Star Trek: the next generation', as an Enterprise crew member playing chamber music. His personal story A fiddler's diary (2013), written with Jane Frost, is published by New Forums Press and available from Amazon.co.uk.

Fans in Ireland were able to see and hear this phenomenal musician in person when Berline, Crary, & Hickman visited Ireland in the 1980s, first as the original trio and next after the addition of Steve Spurgin on bass.

PS: While a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, Byron took part in composing the tune 'Gold rush', which has become a jam session favourite as a two-part tune. He demonstrates all three parts beautifully on YouTube.

©Richard Hawkins

Live gigs return to the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre (and elsewhere)

The SEAC team at the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre ('Ireland's best little venue') in Naul, Co. Dublin, announce:

We are giddy with excitement to announce the return of live gigs at the Séamus Ennis Arts Centre!

Our summer 2021 events will all take place in our covered courtyard, The Piper's Garden. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, numbers have been capped. Covid-19 Health and Safety measures will be in place for the safety of patrons, artists and staff. We ask that you comply with all staff instructions. Further information on what to expect when you attend the venue is available here.

Bookings can be made for live events beginning on Thursday and Friday next week (22 and 23 July). Coming events are all shown on the Centre's website. No bluegrass or old-time music is on the schedule at present, but on the Centre's past record it can be only a matter of time...

Update: The reopening of live performances has also been announced by other venues including the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo town; and St John's Theatre & Arts Centre, Listowel, Co. Kerry, both of which have put on bluegrass-related acts in the past.

© Richard Hawkins

Summer music at Bunclody

The BIB editor writes:

Good to see live music in public again - this photo shows Dick Gladney (bass), Andrea Booth (ukulele), and Niall Toner (guitar), at the Mall Market, Bunclody, Co. Wexford, on Saturday afternoon, 26 June. They played there again the following Saturday, a week ago (3 July); see Niall's Facebook.

© Richard Hawkins

Tim O'Brien - BGS Artist of the Month, July 2021 (UPDATE)

On 28 June the BIB drew attention to Tim O'Brien's new album, He walked on, reviewed in No Depression magazine. Tim O'Brien (right) has now been named as Artist of the Month for July by the Bluegrass Situation (BGS), which in May premiered 'He breathed in', the lead single of the album. 'The project', he told the magazine, 'is about what you need to do to survive in America.'

You can also hear in the article 'The essential Tim O'Brien playlist', with 37 tracks compiled from recordings throughout his career. Unfortunately, no one recorded the night he sat in with the Sackville String Band at Tailors' Hall in Dublin in the late 1970s.

Update 14 July: BGS has now published a two-part interview with Tim O'Brien by Tristan Scroggins: part 1; part 2.

© Richard Hawkins

Riley Baugus on Deering Live TONIGHT (8 July 2021)

The Deering Banjo Company announce that the featured artist on Deering Live tonight will be master old-time banjo-player, banjo-maker, and singer Riley Baugus. Riley last played in Ireland as part of a tour of these islands, ending at the Red Room, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, on Friday 15 Nov. 2019. Several photos of the Red Room and its surroundings are in the 'Mobile uploads' section of his Facebook. Deering announce:

Riley plays in the Round Peak style which is a style that comes from his home county in North Carolina, Surry County. Riley has recorded with Robert Plant, Willie Nelson, Alison Kraus [sic], and many more. He also sang on the Academy Award-nominated soundtrack for the movie Cold Mountain.

The interview, starting at 11.00 p.m. Irish time, can be watched on Deering Live or on YouTube.

© Richard Hawkins

Kenny Baker, 1926-2011

Kenneth Clayton 'Kenny' Baker of Kentucky, considered by many (including Bill Monroe) to have been the supreme bluegrass fiddler, died ten years ago today (8 July 2011). He had been inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 1999, the second fiddler to be so honoured - Chubby Wise was inducted in 1998. Thanks to Niall Toner for the photo above, which he took at Belfast in 1975 during a backstage warm-up by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys.

© Richard Hawkins

All 'Quarantine Happy Hour' videos easily accessible

Uri Kohen of the Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival sends this welcome news:

Many fans of bluegrass and old-time music will be familiar with the Quarantine Happy Hour, a series of daily house concerts on Facebook which started in April 2020, founded by Barry Southern and Gabrielle Macrae of The Horsenecks, and has been running continually since then.

Now, thanks to Josh Larios, there is one website which includes all the videos in an easy-to-find way.

BIB editor's note: A link to the Quarantine Happy Hour series, under the image shown above, has been in the sidebar of the BIB since the series began. We have now added a link to the new directory.

© Richard Hawkins

FOAOTMAD old-time summer camp in England, 6-15 Aug. 2021

FOAOTMAD, the UK organisation for American old-time music and dance, announces that its ten-day Summer Camp will be held from Friday 6 August to Sunday 15 August at Croft Farm Water Park, Bredons Hardwick, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire GL20 7EE:

Provided the government’s guidelines are unchanged, then we will run workshops, slow jams, and campfire jams as usual.

As an extra feature this year we hope to be able to run a mini-festival during the first weekend of the camp, with a number of band performances in the marquee. These will be on the evenings of Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th August. If you would like to be considered for a performance in front of an audience, please contact Tim Rooke: festival@foaotmad.org.uk

Due to the Covid crisis, advance booking is essential and you should phone the campsite direct on 01684 772321. FOAOTMAD members’ discount available when booking; a name and current membership number will be required. More info on our website.

© Richard Hawkins

Two new singles from Fast Track (USA)

The Engelhardt Music Group (EMG) announced yesterday the release of two new singles from Fast Track, made up of Dale Perry (banjo, bass vocals), Steve Day (fiddle, vocals), Ron Spears (bass, vocals), Jesse Brock (mandolin, vocals), and Duane Sparks (guitar, vocals). Ron and Jesse have both toured in Ireland in the past.

The first single - 'The lonesome wind', a Ron Spears composition - is from their debut album (left above), and the second is 'It won't be very long' from their ten-track gospel album Good news (right above). Both albums are now available on all digital platforms and at $15.00 each from the EMG website. A live performance of 'Broken-in friends and worn-out shoes' can be seen on YouTube. The instrument played by Dale Perry in this video will intrigue banjo players, as it certainly did a member of the audience.

© Richard Hawkins

Advice from the classical music world

The prolific Dutch composer Louis Andriessen died on 1 July at the age of 82, at Weesp in the Netherlands. A press obituary of him includes two quotes which may resonate with bluegrass and old-time players:

• He once told his students: 'I would much rather you play the wrong note loudly than the right note subtly'; and
• His father, also a composer, advised him: 'You should realise that we are not important. The music is important. So we should serve the music.' 

© Richard Hawkins

To mark Independence Day

The BIB editor writes:

Here's a YouTube link to a recording of the fiddle tune 'Liberty', played by Ray Legere from New Brunswick.

For a long time this tune has suggested to me the exuberance of freedom achieved, and it would be pleasant to imagine an origin somewhere around 1776 for it. However, according to the Traditional Tune Archive, the first recording of it was made by Bob Wills in 1947; earlier recordings under the same title are of different tunes.

Ray Legere's homeland, of course, still groans under the oppressive weight of being, in the words of a distinguished American commentator, 'a commonwealth of Britain'.

© Richard Hawkins

Jesse Brock (USA) launches Streamliner on Station Inn TV tonight

The BIB has carried posts recently about mandolin master Jesse Brock (who has visited Ireland several times in the past in different bands) and particularly about Jesse's album Streamliner, which is now available from his website. One of the ideas behind the album was to bring together a set of top musicians to make it; Jesse has taken a logical next step by forming this group into his 'Streamliner' band, including Greg Blake on guitar and Russ Carson on banjo.

The official launch party for Streamliner the album will be held at the world-famous Station Inn, Nashville, TN, tonight (3 July) at 8.00 p.m. Nashville time (2.00 a.m. on Sunday for viewers in Ireland), and the show will be streamed live on Station Inn TV. Tickets are $20.00 - the same price as the album.

© Richard Hawkins

Bright Munde reviewed by Tabitha Benedict on Bluegrass Today

Tabitha Benedict continues to contribute detailed and analytical reviews to Bluegrass Today, which yesterday published her review of Bright Munde, an album by the duo comprising banjo legend Alan Munde and mandolinist Billy Bright. The cover image (right) combines both musicians in one apparition. BIB readers with long memories may recall Billy Bright in Ireland quite a few years back when his Two High String Band played at Dunmore East, Athy, and Omagh.

Samples of the thirteen tracks of Bright Munde can be heard on a player at the end of the review. The sound quality is excellent, and the album is a fine example of what satisfying music can be made by just two instruments. The CD can be bought on Alan Munde's website for $15+P&P; a tab book of all the banjo solos is the same price. Some instrumental albums are intimidating; but as Benedict says, this is an album that increases your desire to play.

© Richard Hawkins

Familiar faces for IBMA showcases

The lineup for the showcase programme of this year's IBMA World Of Bluegrass at Raleigh, NC, is now complete, and among the forty acts chosen there are quite a few faces that will be familiar to Irish audiences. Past visitors from the USA include Allison de Groot (last over here with Molsky's Mountain Drifters); Cedar Hill; the Henhouse Prowlers (whose picture is on the front of the 'Bluegrass Ramble' section of the website); the Special Consensus (with Greg Blake on guitar); the Martin Gilmore Trio; and Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike (with Lisa Kay Howard-Hughes on mandolin and Wally Hughes on fiddle and dobro). From outside the States, Lluís Gómez from Barcelona, with his Flamencograss Quartet; and the Often Herd from north-east England. We believe Bluegrass Stuff from Italy haven't visited Ireland yet, but they should. A player on the IBMA WOB website gives half-minute samples of all the showcase acts.

The big news for fans in Ireland should have been the appearance of the outstanding guitar maestro from Carlow, Shane Hennessy (photo above), on the IBMA showcase schedule. Unfortunately, tonight Shane has had to announce that owing to continuing travel restrictions between Europe and the USA, he has been obliged to cancel his planned autumn tour in the States. However, he looks forward to making lots of IBMA connections online.

Update: From Bluegrass Today, it appears that all showcase artists from outside the USA will be taking part by video stream.

© Richard Hawkins

Doyle Lawson plans to complete sixty years on the road

Doyle Lawson, who brought his band Quicksilver to top the bill at the 2006 Omagh festival, announced in April that he intends to withdraw from touring at the end of 2022 or early in 2023, by which time he will have completed sixty years as a professional bluegrass musician, and over forty as one of the most respected and influential bandleaders in bluegrass history. A good survey of his career was given by John Lawless on Bluegrass Today. In early May the 40th Annual Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Bluegrass Festival was one of the first major live bluegrass events to be held in the US this year.

A week ago Billy Blue Records released Roundtable, which Doyle sees as the last secular album he will make. A video of 'I'll take the lonesome every time', the lead track of the twelve on the album, can be seen on YouTube and on Bluegrass Today. On the same day (24 June) a major interview with him by Deborah Evans Price appeared on Billboard magazine. Many more details on Doyle's career and on the making of the album are on this press release from Billy Blue Records.

© Richard Hawkins