Fans of intricate acoustic-guitar-picking will be in hog heaven if they go to The Ark on Monday.

That’s because 2 of the most accomplished and talented pickers on the roots music scene — Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg — will join forces for something of a “guitar summit” that night.

Both are also hot electric guitar players, but they’ve both become better known over the years for their deft acoustic playing. Kaukonen and Bromberg are both heavily influenced by the acoustic country-blues giants such as the Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt.

“Yeah, David and I are old buddies,” says Kaukonen, who has a Michigan connection: His father grew up in the Finnish community in Ironwood, in the Upper Peninsula. “We’ve done a lot of jobs together over the years, but never a full tour like this one. And he’s taught a lot at the ranch” — that is, at Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Guitar Ranch, in Pomeroy, Ohio, which offers guitar classes to kids and adults.

“So, I thought it would be fun to get together, because we definitely share a lot of the same sensibilities.”

Both Kaukonen and Bromberg feel a close connection to Davis.

Kaukonen became enamored of Davis’s percussive, syncopated acoustic blues style early on, which has always been evident in his own acoustic playing. (And the same is true of Bromberg.) And Kaukonen has probably done more to expose modern audiences to the reverend’s music than any other player of the last 40 years. Much of that has been via his work in Hot Tuna — which began back in 1970 as an acoustic-blues side project for Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, when both were still scaling the cosmos and getting psychedelic with the Jefferson Airplane.

Hot Tuna subsequently went electric, and then began alternating back and forth between doing acoustic and electric shows. These days, Kaukonen splits his touring time about 50/50 between doing solo shows and doing Tuna shows with Casady.

And, back in the ‘60s, when Bromberg was a newcomer on the Greenwich Village folk music scene, he would guide Davis, who was blind, to concerts and churches in exchange for guitar lessons. So he literally learned at the feet of the master.

This tour with Kaukonen is a rare one for Bromberg, who began “retiring” from the grind of regular touring and recording back in the early ‘80s — although he still does a brief tour every few years — and released his first album in 17 years in 2007. Bromberg studied to be a violin maker in the early ‘80s, and for more than two decades, he’s devoted most of his time to — and earned his living from — the buying and selling of rare and / or high-end violins.

“But David’s bio as a player is just so rich — you know, he was a sideman for people like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, and he’s had a big band, and he’s multi-talented,” says Kaukonen. “He was a great ‘multi-instrumentalist’ way before that term became popular —he’s great on guitar, fiddle, dobro, mandolin. And he’s played so many styles — blues, country, folk, bluegrass, rock 'n' roll, even classical.”

Kaukonen is no slouch himself. His nimble picking style is easily identifiable to those Tuna-heads who have loyally followed his work.

The way the show is structured, “one of us will do a solo set first set —we’ll alternate from night to night in terms of who goes first — and then we’ll do a set together,” says Kaukonen by phone from his ranch. “Then, the other one will do a solo set, and then we’ll do another set together at the end.” Joining in the fun will be Barry Mitterhoff, (mandolin, banjo, guitar), who has played on Kaukonen’s last couple of solo records, and has also done stints in the expanded version of Hot Tuna, when they add a drummer and a third string player.

Kaukonen says that, in the past, “David and I never liked to rehearse together much before we did a gig, since we’re both drinking from the same well, and know a lot of the same traditional blues and country tunes. But for this one, we’re actually going to spend some time rehearsing, because when we do our joint sets, we’ll be doing some of our original songs in addition to the trad stuff. So we’ll need to put a little time in, learning each other’s songs.

“We still won’t rehearse the trad tunes, though, because one thing we both like is that ‘oops’ factor, or surprise factor, where you stumble on a cool interplay by accident. That kind of adds to the excitement factor.”

Kaukonen’s most recent album, “River of Time,” was released last year, and the title track snagged the top spot on National Public Radio’s list of “Best Folk Songs of 2009.” “River of Time” was recorded at the Woodstock, NY “barn studio” owned by Levon Helm, the great former drummer for The Band. Helm even sat in and played the drums on several tracks. “At first, Levon was just going to play on a couple of tunes, but he was having so much fun, he didn’t want to quit.”

The album is partly a return to the acoustic blues and country-folk styles of Kaukonen’s formative years. “Yeah, I wanted to get back to my basics,” says Kaukonen — the record includes covers of tunes by the likes of Davis, Hurt, Merle Haggard and the Delmore Brothers, in addition to six Kaukonen originals.

Bromberg was in the same musical state of mind when he recorded “Try Me One More Time” in ‘07 — his first album since “Sideman Serenade” in 1990. It was a solo acoustic effort, and the disc similarly found Bromberg hearkening back to his roots — it also includes covers of tunes by aforementioned seminal blues guitar heroes like Davis, McTell, Hurt and Johnson, as well as his interpretations of tunes by Elizabeth Cotten, Tommy Johnson, and even a Dylan cover — “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry.”

As for the future, Kaukonen has big news for Tuna-heads — he and Casady want to make a new Hot Tuna studio album, hopefully this year. That would be the first Tuna studio effort since 1990. (In the ensuing 20 years, they’ve only released recordings of live shows.)

“We’d like to record that at Levon’s place, too,” says Kaukonen. “I’ve been doing a lot more writing lately, and Jack has been writing as well. So now we just gotta get off our a-- and do it.”

PREVIEW Jorma Kaukonen & David Bromberg Who: Two of the most talented and accomplished acoustic-blues and country-folk guitar pickers on the roots-music scene. What: A solo set from each, plus a couple of short sets where they join forces. Where: The Ark, 316 South Main Street, Ann Arbor. When: Monday, 8 p.m. How much: $35. Details: AnnArbor.com calendar listing or 734-761-1451.

Kevin Ransom, a free-lance writer who covers music for AnnArbor.com, first interviewed both Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg in 1991. He can be reached at KevinRansom10@aol.com.