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 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 ...

Even if you don’t know exactly what a Hawaiian slack key guitar (or ki ho’alu) is, you can probably easily recognize its music. It’s that smooth, sweet sound that evokes island breezes and warm sunny ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Hawaiian slack-key guitarist has been reunited with a stolen instrument eleven years after it was taken from him. Makana, an award-winning musician who has performed ...

Waimea’s Sonny Lim performs Sunday evening at Kahilu Theatre. ADVERTISING Waimea’s Sonny Lim performs Sunday evening at Kahilu Theatre. The intimate evening of acoustic and slack key guitar features ...

Slack-key master George Kuo, holding his favorite double-neck guitar, opens the Fifth Annual “Westside” Hawaiian Slack key Guitar Festival on Sunday. Kuo revealed the split Saturday, just after a ...

Music lovers visiting Oahu can soak up some distinctively Hawaiian tunes on Aug. 12 at the third annual Slack Key Jam planned for the Outrigger Waikiki Reef Hotel. Some of Islands' most beloved slack ...

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 ...

Left-handed James “Bla” Pahinui learned to play on a guitar set up for a right-handed guitarist — “upside down and backwards” for him. Playing “upside down and backwards” meant hitting the guitar ...