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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The musical spirit of the Hawaiian islands and its welcoming aloha culture will flood Redondo Beach with laid-back waves thanks to the return of the Southern California Slack Key Festival. “One thing ...

From his youth as a slack-key guitar prodigy to his historic theatrical concerts honoring kupuna, from his presidential poetic protests and people s anthems to his aloha aina, Makana has created quite ...

The slack-key guitar, and the tuneful, often soothing music it is associated with, originated in Hawaii in the 19th century after Portuguese settlers introduced the guitar to native islanders, who put ...

Making her debut at the annual Ki Ho’alu Festival at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Sunday, Namaka Cosma is a Na Hoku Hanohano Award-nominated rising Hawaiian music star, the daughter of Hana ...