Ken Double

A 34-year former radio and television sportscaster, who at age 8 started taking organ lessons in his hometown, Chicago, Ken Doublehas enjoyed a second career focused on his love of the music of the theatre pipe organ. 

As a sportscaster, Ken broadcast NBA and major college basketball, NHL, IHL and AHL hockey, the worldwide broadcast of the Indy 500, and more.  His experience on the air was a plus on stage in his “second” career, making music on the mighty theatre pipe organ.

Since retiring from broadcasting in 2008, Ken has performed concerts on the great theatre pipe organs around the world including 8 tours of Australia; helped establish the Long Center Theatre Organ Society in Lafayette, Indiana where he has performed 41 annual summer concerts; spent ten years as the national President of the American Theatre Organ Society; and since 2016, has performed on Mighty Mo, the iconic Möller pipe organ at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, the city he has called home since 2009.  Ken is currently a consultant for the Balboa Theatre in San Diego as it looks toward Season Two of Monday Night Silents, a new annual series of silent film presentations featuring the great Wonder Morton pipe organ.