Tobin Frank is a Canadian musician, who records, performs and tours with the bands

Spirit of the West Spirit of the West were a Canadian folk rock band from North Vancouver, active from 1983 to 2016. They were popular on the Canadian folk music scene in the 1980s before evolving a blend of hard rock, Britpop, and Celtic folk influences which ...

and

The Paperboys The Paperboys (sometimes billed and credited as Tom Landa and the Paperboys) are a Canadian folk music band from Vancouver that formed in 1991. The Paperboys blend Celtic folk with bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul a ...

. Primarily a

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ist, Frank also plays some accordion and

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parts. Frank joined Spirit of the West as a temporary guest musician on the tour to support their 1997 album ''

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'', following

Linda McRae Linda McRae is a Canadian folk-roots-Americana musician. A multi-instrumentalist ( clawhammer banjo, acoustic and electric guitars, accordion, bass, and Porchboard stomp box) singer-songwriter, she is a former member of Spirit of the West. S ...

's departure from the band. He later became a permanent member of the band, and first appeared on the band's 2004 album '' Star Trails''. Frank has also been a guest performer on albums by numerous other Canadian artists such as The Town Pants, a Vancouver-based Celtic rock band. Frank is from the

Bulkley Valley The Bulkley Valley is in the northwest Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Geography The Bulkley, a stream running through Houston, British Columbia, joins the larger Morice River about to the west. At the confluence, they become not ...

area of British Columbia but resides permanently on Vancouver Island with his family. He attended Capilano College's Jazz Studies program in North Vancouver. He has played several times at the popular Midsummer Festival of Smither's BC. Tobin has an older brother Psam Frank, who is also a keyboardist in a country band.

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Living people Musicians from British Columbia Canadian folk rock musicians Spirit of the West members 20th-century Canadian bass guitarists 21st-century Canadian bass guitarists 20th-century Canadian keyboardists 21st-century Canadian keyboardists Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bass-guitarist-stub