Ki-ho‘alu Foundation will present the 28th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival – Kona Style – for all the fans of Hawaiian music and slack key guitar on Hawaii Island. The festival is scheduled ...

The best musicians are usually the most versatile, such as Jim “Kimo” West. Van Nuys resident West is the guitarist for “Weird Al” Yankovic, whose latest effort, the chart-topping “Mandatory Fun” (RCA ...

To learn slack key guitar, you may want to start with the roots. First, you fly over to Maui, then get transportation to Kahakuloa on the northern part of the island, about an hour an a half from ...

When he’s not playing lead guitar touring and recording with “Weird Al” Yankovic, Grammy winning musician Jim “Kimo” West pursues his love for Hawaiian slack key guitar. Releasing several acclaimed ...

According to Matthew Swalinkavich, known by fans as Makana, there are obvious reasons that few musicians master slack key guitar. "It's a very challenging style technically, and it's hard to learn ...

Slack key guitar is the sound of Hawaiian fellowship, protest, and love for native land. Most scholars trace the origin of the indigenous fingerstyle technique—named for the fact that the strings are ...

Peterson plays the slack-key guitar, which is a type of guitar playing that originated in Hawaii. In the 1830s, visiting Spanish and Mexican cowboys brought guitars to the Hawaiian cattle ranches, ...

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 ...

WAIMEA — The Kahilu Theatre will present its 23rd Annual ‘Ukulele &Slack Key Guitar Festival this Friday and Saturday. This year’s festival showcases celebrated Hawaiian music artists Ledward Kaapana, ...