Kahumoku Jr. is a master of Hawaiian music, known for his work on slack key guitar and ukulele. Known as “Uncle George,” he’s ...

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 ...

Local band Slack Key ‘Ohana recently won Best World Music Song at the San Diego Music Awards held at Humphreys by the Bay on April 30. The winning song “Nahenahe Ka Leo o Ka Wahine U’i”, written and ...

Bay Area musician and teacher Patrick Landeza likes to joke that he was born on the “Island of Berkeley,” but he will forever be associated with the music of a different island culture — Hawaii. A ...

There's no music in the world quite like Hawaii's slack-key guitar. This unlikely marriage of the Spanish guitar with and Polynesia's rippling rhythms gets its name from the islanders' habit of ...

Grammy-nominated Hawaiian slack key guitarist Stephen Inglis and acclaimed pedal steel guitarist Barry Sless will return to ...

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Slack key musician Cyril Pahinui jams with some of the most talented musicians in Hawai‘i. Master slack key musician Cyril Pahinui jams with some of the most revered and talented musicians in Hawai‘i ...

(KHNL) - His name Makana, in Hawaiian means "gift," and he is Hawaii's youngest slack-key guitar master. Recognized by Esquire magazine in March 2003, Makana is considered to be one of the greatest ...

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 ...

Cyril Pahinui, photographed before the start of a live concert featuring musicians who contributed to the film The Descendants on April 14, 2012 in Honolulu. There's no music in the world quite like ...