A small minority of players ( such as Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio ) close tuned the instrument to D G B E to produce a deep instrument that could be played with the four-note chord shapes found on the top four strings of the guitar or ukulele.

Heavily influenced by The Kingston Trio and the Journeymen, the band played hootenannies, coffee houses and high school auditoriums.

Games of shinney are also known to have been played on the St. Lawrence River at Montreal and Quebec City and in Kingston and Ottawa in Ontario.

A year later, Dench renewed her collaboration with Sir Peter Hall at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames in A Midsummer Night's Dream which opened in February 2010, when she played Titania as Queen Elizabeth I in her later years: Queen of the Forest of Arden.

Mobile sound systems that played American hits became popular in the 1950s in Kingston, Jamaica.

The movie, shot in 13 days in the woods behind D ' Onofrio's home near Kingston, New York, had a budget of $ 100, 000 and played at numerous festivals throughout 2009 and 2010.

He played third base on the Kingston High School baseball team and had originally hoped for a career as a professional baseball player.

The Hudson Valley Highlanders of the North American Football League played their home games at Dietz Stadium in nearby Kingston.

The Smith brothers, Tagg and Pugh played their first live concert in 1978 at The Kaleidoscope in Kingston upon Thames, under the name of The Filth ( sometimes incorrectly remembered as Philip Pilf & The Filth ).

Kevin Kingston played halfback, and the lack of scoring ability was shown in the result.

The club has played at Kingsmeadow in Kingston upon Thames since 1989, after leaving their traditional Richmond Road ground.

By 1885 Kingston Amateurs had played at three grounds, Albert Street, Anlaby Road and finally Chalk Lane.

The idea of a new stadium for Kingston upon Hull, whose professional football club Hull City had played at Boothferry Park since 1946, was first mooted in 1997, but funds to finance such a project only became available when the city council sold a portion of its holdings in Kingston Communications.

These two schools, located in Kingston, had been the participants in the first organized interuniversity hockey game, played in Kingston in 1885.

Robert Briton Selby ( born March 27, 1945 in Kingston, Ontario ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues.

While attending Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, he became interested in theatre and music and played ice hockey and varsity basketball.

She was played by Alex Kingston and appeared from 1997 to 2004.

Kingston auditioned and performed in the Surrey County Youth Theatre production of Tom Jones, as Mrs Fitzpatrick alongside Sean Pertwee, Captain Fitzpatrick and Thwackum played by Tom Davison.

* Mike Smith ( rugby league ), rugby league footballer of the 1970s and ' 80s who played for Great Britain, and England, and Hull Kingston Rovers

He has played for the Vancouver Canucks, Montreal Canadiens, Washington Capitals, AHL Portland Pirates, IHL Cincinnati Cyclones, OHL Kingston Frontenacs and Barrie Colts.

Prior to the NHL, Avery played for the Owen Sound Platers and the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League ( OHL ).

They also played a game at the venue in both 2006 and 2007, and the club stated that they hoped in future to be able to play one game a year at Kingston Park.

This was followed by a role as pimp Seymour " Kingston " Stockton in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie ( 1998 ).

Kingston was chosen as the first capital of the united Canadas and served in that role from 1841 to 1844.

After the 1692 disaster, Port Royal's commercial role was steadily taken over by the town ( and later, city ) of Kingston.

In her first public engagement after departing politics, she accepted a role in a Kingston, Ontario dinner theatre production of Steel Magnolias.

In 2008, she performed the role of Nora in A Doll's House, directed by Peter Hall at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and also the role of Isabel Archer in a stage adaptation of The Portrait of a Lady, both of which commenced their runs in July 2008, ending in August, before transferring to the Rose Theatre in Kingston later that year.

Its seaport role was taken over by the new town of Kingston upon Hull.

Kingston has appeared in a number of British-produced television dramas, including Grange Hill, Crocodile Shoes, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, The Knock and a guest role on The Bill.

In 2006, Kingston revealed that she was turned down for a role on ABC's Desperate Housewives, as Lynette Scavo, for being too curvy.

Kingston says she thought her role was simply a one-off, but was delighted that she would be a returning character as she has now appeared in twelve episodes and counting

While the completion of the interstates drew away most of the cross-country traffic, the US-70 / US-11 intersection still serves a strategic role as the western end of the four-lane Kingston Pike, a major commercial thoroughfare in western Knox County.

Played Erin Kingston, a supporting role on New Zealand TV drama Shortland Street and also appeared on Street Legal.

His next project saw him take the role of Gary Kingston, a deluded murderer, in Chiller.

He played the role of W. Averell Harriman in the movie MacArthur and also appeared on episodes of Starsky and Hutch, Kingston: Confidential as well as the TV miniseries The Moneychangers.

Stationed in Kingston, Ontario, Armstrong served in this role from 1842 to 1848.

Ernie " Kiwi " Kingston was a wrestler and film actor from New Zealand, relatively unknown, but still remembered for his role as the Karloff-like Frankenstein Monster in Hammer's The Evil of Frankenstein ( 1964 ).

Quackenbush later explained that he no longer needed to control his temper and play by the rules to maintain an image, since at High Noon Eddie Kingston had taken over his role as the face of Chikara.

Kingston joined Combat Zone Wrestling ( CZW ) and was almost immediately placed in the role of enforcer and mouthpiece in the BLKOUT faction.

He was one of the organizers of the 1941 Kingston Conference, a meeting of Canadian artists to discuss the role of art in society as well as other issues facing the arts at the time.

Wright was nominated for a national TV award as most popular newcomer for his role as Sam Kingston in Coronation Street and has been awarded a Rear of the Year title.