Kit Cairns

Biography of Kit Cairns


Kit Christian Carter Cairns was born in Stratford, Ontario, March 25th 1978. He is the youngest of four children and grew up on a ten acre self-sufficient farm near Embro, Ontario. Kit is currently a science teacher, father and avid musician.
During his upbringing Kit was exposed to much music. At an early age he was surrounded by the likes of true hippies as his father was a member of the blue grass band Perth County Conspiracy and good friends with the folk singer Valdy. During adolescence Kit became obsessed with music and explored it intensely by attending thousands of live music concerts and festivals. Kit was so passionate about the gathering of individuals for the purpose of music that he completed his university thesis on the Motivations For Attending And Characteristics Of The Modern Music Festival. It wasn’t until Kit was attending Lakehead University in 1999 that he picked up a guitar and started writing songs but for years prior to that he had been writing poetry, singing kareoke, and keeping journals. These three passions came together to form the beginning of Kit’s musical career.
In 2002 Kit purchased a used Roland digital music recorder and started to explore the technique of recording music. The first project to surface was a bad kareoke cd. The second a bad Handmade Demo. However it caught the interest of another musician who together with Kit formed the band No Boundaries. In 2004 the band put together a not so bad independent CD called No Holds Barred and played together at festivals, fairs and pubs. Shortly after that Kit decided to pursue his music by means of launching an independent solo record called This Is Me. Through 2006 Kit promoted his album by participating in music competitions, playing a variety of gigs in a variety of places, and in late 2006 launching his own informative and interactive personal website.
In 2008 Kit released his second independent cd called My World which cle