Vintage Black White Lithographic Printed Photo. Featuring "Hillbilly" Country Musicians Ken MacKenzie and his wife Simone. Released circa 1960s by MacKenzie Family Productions, Darlilngton, Maryland. Measures approximately 8 x 10 including white border. Condition: This is an original photograph, not a copy or reproduction. It is in mint condition. Comments: Ken MacKenzie was a long time Maine country music star. His parents were from Canada, both born in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, but later moved to Concord, New Hampshire. It appears the family may have lived in Chicago for a while with a meat packing company, but later was transferred to Concord, where Ken went to school and graduated from Concord High School in 1936. Ken started to "...plucking away..." on a cheap guitar his father bought him while he was still in high school. He continued to learn it, even joined a hillbilly band in 1935. But things didn't work out with the band, so he set out on his own. While still a youngster, he auditioned at radio station WFEA in Manchester, New Hampshire in October of 1936. He won himself a spot on the station, appearing at first, once a week, but grew in popularity to a point where he was appearing six days a week. He credited Chick Evans, a manager at WFEA as someone that helped him out in those early efforts. Ken stayed with WFEA until the end of 1938. Later Ken and his wife Simone performed regularly on WGAN Radio in Portland, Maine. He was inducted into the Maine Country Music Association Hall of Fame in 1978.