
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 24, 1991                   TAG: 9103240191
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D/3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CONCORD, N.H.                                LENGTH: Short

KINGSTON TRIO'S DAVE GUARD DIES AT AGE 56

Dave Guard, founder of the Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffeehouses to mainstream America with songs such as the haunting "Tom Dooley" and Guard the rollicking "MTA," has died at 56.

His daughter, Sally Guard of New York, said Saturday that her father died Friday at home in Rollinsford of lymphoma.

"I'm very upset," said Nick Reynolds, a member of the trio since its founding in 1957. Reynolds, in Coronado, Calif., said he had visited Guard "two months ago and he was in remission."

Guard graduated from Stanford University with an economics degree in 1956. Around that time, Reynolds recalled, he and Shane were attending Menlo College, in Palo Alto, Calif., and they used to get together to sing for fun.

In 1959, before the folk category was established, the group won a Grammy for the best country and western recording for "Tom Dooley," the group's best-selling single.

In 1960, the group won the first Grammy for best folk album.

by CNB