Question: In the early 1970's Ken Whiteley toured with an acclaimed children's performer born in what country?

Context articles: Progressive country
Martha Cheney
Larry Cedar
Walker and Williams Co.
Raffi
Ken Minyard
Ken Whiteley
Peter Appleyard
Chad Smith
T. K. D. Muzhappilangad

Progressive country is a subgenre of country music developed in the early 1970s.
 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, mainstream country music was dominated by the slick Nashville sound and the rock-influenced Bakersfield sound of artists like Merle Haggard.
 A new generation of country artists emerged, influenced by contemporary rock music, singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, and the liberal politics of the 1960s counterculture.
Martha Cheney (born 1953) is the author of several titles in the Gifted & Talented book series, which sold more than one million copies.
 She currently resides in Huson, Montana.
 She was also a contributing lyricist to the acclaimed children's music videos, "Baby Songs".
 whose words were set to the music of Hap Palmer, her former husband.
 Cheney has a B.A. from University of North Carolina Wilmington (1975) and a M.A. (2002) and Ed.D. (2004) from the University of Montana.
Larry Cedar (born March 6, 1955) is an American actor and a voice actor best known as one of the players of the highly acclaimed Children's Television Workshop mathematics show "Square One TV" on PBS from 1987 to 1994.
 He also played Alex the Butcher in a series of commercials for Kroger in 1989.
 Cedar is also known for playing Leon, the opium-addicted thief and faro dealer, in the internationally acclaimed HBO series, "Deadwood".
George Walker and Bert Williams were two of the most renowned figures of the minstrel era.
 However the two did not start their careers together.
 Walker was born in 1873 in Lawrence, Kansas.
 His onstage career began at an early age as he toured in black minstrel shows as a child.
 George Walker became a better known stage performer as he toured the country with a traveling group of minstrels.
 George Walker was a "dandy", a performer notorious for performing without makeup due to his dark skin.
 Most vaudeville actors were white at this time and often wore blackface.
 As Walker and his group traveled the country, Bert Williams was touring with his group, named Martin and Selig’s Mastodon Minstrels.
 While performing with the Minstrels, African American song-and-dance man George Walker and Bert Williams met in San Francisco in 1893.
 George Walker married Ada Overton in 1899.
 Ada Overton Walker was known as one of the first professional African American choreographers.
 Prior to starring in performances with Walker and Williams, Overton wowed audiences across the country for her 1900 musical performance in the show "Son of Ham."
 After falling ill during the tour of Bandana Land in 1909, George Walker returned to Lawrence, Kansas where he died on January 8, 1911.
 He was 38.
Raffi Cavoukian, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (Armenian: Րաֆֆի , born July 8, 1948), better known by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt and known best for his children's music.
 He developed his career as a "global troubadour" to become a music producer, author, entrepreneur, and founder of the Centre for Child Honouring, a vision for global restoration.
Ken Minyard (born in 1939) is a radio personality.
 He was featured on KABC-AM (790) radio's morning Newstalk show in the early 1970s, but he is best remembered for partnering with Bob Arthur on the "Ken and Bob Company" morning radio program on KABC-AM Los Angeles, California from 1973–1990.
 The pair coined the term "EGBOK" meaning “everything’s gonna be OK.”
 The "Ken and Bob Company" was Los Angeles' #1 rated radio show for almost 20 years on KABC.
Kenneth "Ken" Whiteley (born in 1951) is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer.
 He began performing folk music in the early 1970s, making frequent appearances at the Mariposa Folk Festival and recording and touring with acclaimed children's performer Raffi.
 Whitely frequently performed with his brother Chris Whiteley and later with his niece and nephew Jenny Whiteley and Daniel Whiteley.
 Whiteley has been honoured with numerous awards, including a Genie Award in 2004, and he was inducted into the Mariposa Festival Hall of Fame in 2008.
Peter Appleyard, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (26 August 1928 – 17 July 2013) was a British–Canadian jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer.
 He spent most of his life living and performing in the city of Toronto where for many years he was a popular performer in the city's nightclubs and hotels.
 He also played and recorded with many of the city's orchestras and been featured on Canadian television and radio programs.
 In the early 1970s he drew wide acclaim for his performances with Benny Goodman's jazz sextet with which he toured internationally.
 In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of his being an "internationally renowned vibraphonist [who] has represented the Canadian jazz community across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia".
Chadwick Gaylord Smith (born October 25, 1961) is an American musician and the current drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which he joined in 1988.
 The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
 Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, formed in 2008, and is currently the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, who formed in 2007.
 As one of the most highly sought-after drummers, Smith has recorded with Glenn Hughes, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, The Dixie Chicks, Jennifer Nettles, Kid Rock, Jake Bugg, and The Avett Brothers.
 In 2010, joined by Dick Van Dyke and Leslie Bixler, he released "Rhythm Train", a critically acclaimed children's album which featured Smith singing and playing various instruments.
T.K Damodaran (born 1946), popularly known as T.K.D. Muzhappilangad, is an Indian author, screenplay writer, critic and orator.
 He is an acclaimed children's story writer in Malayalam, who has won several awards including Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
 His book "Unnikkuttanum kadhakaliyum" received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature in 1983.
 He was born in Muzhappilangad, a coastal village in Kerala.
 Besides children's literature he wrote four novels, sixteen essays on various subjects, five biographies and five plays.