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Ken Hamm

Website: www.kenhamm.com

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About this artist:
Ken Hamm is one of Canada's foremost interpreters of traditional roots and blues music. Since 1978, when he began touring solo, Hamm has won a wide following for his stellar guitar work, as well as for his original songs that reflect his rural westcoast life. Along the way Hamm was awarded a Juno for Best Roots & Traditional CD and has been nominated for Recording of the Year and nominated several times for Best Acoustic Act of the Year by the Toronto Blues Society. Hamm was also nominated three years running as Best Acoustic Blues Guitarist by North America's "Guitar Player" magazine and he was the Canadian representative to the Festival of Plucked Strings in Morocco.
Hamm was raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario and began his musical pursuits as a teenager by listening to old country and blues recordings at the local folk record store. The proprietor, recognizing his interest and intent, encouraged him. After playing in local bands and performing in coffee houses around Thunder Bay, Hamm began travelling the folk circuit and moved to the West Coast in 1982. He has continued to write from his experiences as a silviculturalist, fisherman and rural observer. His songs reflect the land he loves and the lives of the people that live there without being sentimental or overstated. Now, after decades on the west coast, he has relocated to southeastern Saskatchewan.
"...his exceptional musical gift for picking guitar and plumbing the tradition has turned him into one of Canada's most entertaining experts in the field of southern delta blues ...a feeling of authenticity continues to trickle through on his recent solo blues album, the excellent independent production 'Galvanized'" - Roger Levesque, 'The Edmonton Journal'
"...a barebones masterpiece...this local blues musician is one of the country's finest treasures." "...the best slide guitar blues this country has to offer...a 20-song slice of joy" - Mike Devlin, 'The Times Colonist'
"...Plays and sings the blues like he was born and bred in the Mississippi Delta...maintains their original character while infusing them with his own interpretive flavor." - 'Guitar Player' Magazine

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