Acclaimed for award-winning documentaries such as “Living in the Future’s Past,” “The Breath of Life” and “Hot Money,” former ...
A dozen of Hawaii’s most talented slack-key guitarists are on the bill of the 27th Annual Kona Style Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival. “We have a very diverse lineup of great musicians,” said Milton ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaiian artist Makana recently put out new music based on slack-key guitar stylings, but he continues to evolve his sound. Makana’s latest album “Pulama: Legacies of Hawaii ...
Makana has been called the youngest living master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar, but he’s also taken the genre one step further by pioneering his own style of contemporary world rock, which he calls ...
Ken Emerson will perform Sept. 24 as part of George Kahumoku Jr.’s “Slack Key Show” at the Napili Kai Beach Resort. Courtesy photo Back in the early 1980s you could find Grammy-winning guitarist Ken ...
In celebration of Hawaii's 193 year old guitar tradition known around the world as Slack Key Guitar (Ki-ho'alu), we have gathered some of Hawaii's finest musicians in Hawaiian music and slack key ...
When Hal Kinnaman first heard slack-key guitar music being played on a California beach 50 years ago, he fell in love with it, and learned to play it so well that he became a slack-key master, and ...
Several generations of slack key guitarists—from slack key masters George Kuo and Mike Kaawa to young Kahiau Lam Ho, who made his debut as a recording artist just last year—will share the stage Sunday ...
The 25th annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival took place Sept. 18 at the Outrigger Kona Resort featuring a line-up of the state’s most talented players. Billy V was the MC for the nearly ...