Ken Hamm is one of Canada's foremost interpreters of traditional roots and blues music. Ken 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.

 When you see Ken Hamm in concert, it is obvious that he has absorbed, arranged and restated traditional blues and roots music, and made it current and original. His ability to accompany himself with driving and intricate slide and acoustic guitar completes the mix.

Raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario Ken began his musical pursuits as a teenager by listening to old country and blues recordings at the local folk record store.  He played in local bands and performed in coffee houses around Thunder Bay, Ken began travelling the folk circuit performing in venues ranging from house concerts to concert halls to major festivals. Hamm moved to the West Coast in 1982 and 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. Hamm's song 'Fishing Grounds' is featured on an interactive CD-ROM designed by the BC Folklore Society to educate high school students.

Ken has become well known as a guitar instructor of fingerpicking and slide guitar styles, and is currently working on a book and instructional video. As well as producing roots music recording projects for others, Hamm is presently touring to promote his 2003 release, 'FingerLicks' an all-instrumental collection of tunes and and 'Ken Hamm -Live '05 ' a double, live CD set recorded in 2005.

Ken is constantly on tour in Canada, England, Scotland and Europe, playing festivals and concerts and presenting guitar workshops, sometimes solo, sometimes with other musical friends. With six CDs, his own label and an ever expanding audience, it is likely you can hear some of Ken Hamm's musical magic in your area soon.  

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