Ken Emerson Guitarist

Ken Emerson is a San Francisco Bay Area born/Hawaiian island bred guitarist and composer, moving to Hawaii in 1968, he also absorbed the island music along with his father's 78 rpm Hawaiian record collection. He is known for bringing back the sound of vintage acoustic steel guitar during Hawaii's musical "renaissance" of the 1970's with his brother Phil. Emerson won the prestigious Kahili Award for perpetuating Hawaiian culture, and was a featured artist and composer on the first-ever National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Grammy Award winning Best Hawaiian Album. Emerson's contemporary electric guitar is also featured on Donald Fagen's (Steely Dan) Grammy Award winning Morph the Cat, and has recorded and performed with artists Todd Rundgren, Charlie Musselwhite, and Bob Weir with Bill Kreutzmann from the Grateful Dead.