[HAM] Kenny Harkins:

[Alicia Morgan]

>        I wonder if any of you guys ever heard of Kenny Harkins?  Great
> B3
> player, played for the acts at Circus Circus in Las Vegas for years.

I
If he is the guy who played for Circus Circus, then indeed I do know
him - from when I was in the circus and was performing at Circus Circus
with a man who caught bullets in his teeth. This would have been in
1980. I went back to Las Vegas in 92, playing across the street at the
Riviera in a lounge band with my husband and stopped in at Circus
Circus, and he was still there, along with a high-wire act who I had
traveled with in the King Brothers Circus. He's a great player and the
nicest guy...he remembered me from the Bullet Catch, but he didn't know
I was a player (the only time in my life that I gave up music
temporarily was to 'run away with the circus' for 3 years, in my late
teens/early 20's.) We had a nice little 'catch up', but that was the
last time I saw him, as I don't get to Vegas much these days.

I would love to see him again, especially now that I have a real
Hammond - I'll bet that his workshops are great.

Alicia