Chris Kennison Email & Phone Number

I finished my fifth season as one of the staff musicians on stage at the Arizona Opry in April 2015. What a great time I had working there. I recently had the rare opportunity to join a new show band called The Rhythm Cats in Mesa AZ, appearing at the Silver Star dinner showroom. I spend the winter entertaining visitors to the Valley of The Sun. I hope to see you there!When the winter season ends in AZ I return to Colorado and play music locally. I also operate my recording studio and teach music. I have 30 years in the audio recording and engineering business, along with 40 years professional music performance experience.Concurrent with the above, 30 years in the computer industry. I also spent 4 years in the US Navy programming computers for the Naval Weather Service.I'm a professional musician specializing in pedal steel, non-pedal steel, dobro, as well as fiddle, banjo, mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar. I love Country Swing, C&W, Folk, Rock, Hawaiian, and Blues. I also teach steel guitar. I'm volunteer on the Board of Directors for the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association in Hawaii to help promote Hawaiian steel. www.hsga.orgI love working in the music and media industry. My main goal is to continue to expand as a professional steel player and perform around the country and the world. I also love being able to use my managment and technology skills acquired in the IT and music industry, to help improve operations in non-profit organizations.Specialties: Steel Guitar (country, Hawaiian, Blues, Rock) People managment, project and program managment. Organizational and team development. Process development. Effective communication. Fundraising. Professional audio recording and engineering, Live sound engineering, Professional musician. Software development. (Computer Science degree) Operations and Data Center managment for computer industry.

Listed skills include Sound, Music Production, Program Management, Music, and 21 others.