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This is a Programme for old song and folk speech recital concert featuring Reginald ‘Reg’ Kenney (1873-1954), held on 17 October 1912. Singing was a talent that distinguished him among the variously gifted Kenney siblings. He was the eldest child of Horatio Nelson Kenney and Ann Wood and Annie and Jessie’s oldest brother. He started his life working in the cotton mills, like his sisters, and became a representative for a firm of wholesale booksellers later on. He had a profound influence on his younger brothers and sisters and influenced their political sensibilities and interest in social welfare.