Ken Whiteley

About

The artist

Ken Whiteley is a Toronto roots musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. His professional performing career began in 1965 with his brother Chris Whiteley and Tom Evans in the Original Sloth Band. He later recorded and performed with Chris as the Whiteley Brothers and with Mose Scarlett and Jackie Washington as Scarlett, Washington and Whiteley. His music draws from folk, blues, gospel, jug band traditions, and family music. Across his career, Whiteley has performed or recorded with artists including Pete Seeger, Raffi, Stan Rogers, Tom Paxton, and John Hammond Jr. His official production history documents work on more than 140 albums across independent and established labels. That production catalogue includes recent projects by Afro-Métis Nation, Garnetta Cromwell, and Kathy Reid-Naiman, alongside earlier work associated with Fred Penner and many other Canadian artists. Whiteley's exact Spotify identity contains sixteen primary album and single releases from August 1996 through March 2026. MusicList normalizes that platform catalogue as fifteen albums and one single. Keep Going, released by Pyramid Records in March 2026, is a twelve-track album built around perseverance and Whiteley's blend of blues and gospel. Whiteley performs vocals and a wide range of guitars, keyboards, basses, mandolin-family instruments, harmonica, and washboard on the album. The record also features Ciceal Levy, Gord Mowat, Bucky Berger, Chris Whiteley, and other long-time collaborators. Unseen Hands, released in 2024, connects twelve-string guitar arrangements with songs about community and environmental responsibility. Whiteley produced that album and recorded it at Casa Wroxton Studio in Toronto with engineer Nik Tjelios. So Glad I'm Here, released in 2023 with Davod Azad as a featured collaborator, received a 2025 Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Traditional Singer of the Year. The official site lists seven JUNO nominations, a Canadian Folk Music Award, a Genie Award, and lifetime recognition from Mariposa, the Maple Blues Awards, and Folk Music Ontario. His artist-controlled Bandcamp identifies Toronto, Ontario, while his official site documents 2026 Ontario performances and continuing studio activity. Current professional inquiries are directed to the official contact page without republishing email addresses. Spotify media is displayed remotely with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.