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Rock,
Jazz, Blues, Gospel since 1969
Performance
Bio
Ken Burton started playing in
high school, taking lessons from a local Montana teacher, Dr. Ralph Campbell,
and participating in clinics at the University of Montana.
Burton was the lead drummer in the Polson High School Stage Band, soloing
and performing with the highest honors in statewide competitions.
After high school, and some music education at the U of M, Burton helped
form the progressive rock band Papa Tuba, which covered artists from the
Grateful Dead to Yes, Frank Zappa to Led Zeppelin, as well as many original
tunes. Papa Tuba performed
over a three state area, as well as outdoor festivals with over a thousand
attendees (not a bad accomplishment for a drummer not yet 21 years old).
Burton left Papa Tuba to
move to Oregon, where he played for a groundbreaking church – Life Church, of
Salem Oregon –- playing an early incarnation of in what would become the
current wave of church praise and worship music (his music director and senior
pastor, Mike Herron, is currently an artist and worldwide representative
for Integrity Music). Burton
also helped form the Salem, Oregon band No Lies, which
covered the mainstream of what was current CCM, as well as many original
numbers. No Lies performed
in both Oregon and Washington in many church and non-church venues (again,
serving as a forerunner in crossing over from the “sacred” to the
“secular.”)
