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The Slack Key Show – Masters of Hawaiian Music will mark the holiday season with two special performances at the open-air ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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