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 ...

Hawaii has a rich history of cowboy culture, played to the tune of a slack key guitar. No one embodies this culture more than Leabert Lindsey, a fifth-generation Hawaiian cowboy, or "paniolo." Dating ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To the people of Hawaii and those familiar with the culture of the islands, the word "aloha" is not simply a greeting or a goodbye, but a word with a broader meaning of love or respect.In many ways, ...

Pahinui, who succumbed to health complications possibly caused by exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam, was drawn at a young age to... There's no music in the world quite like Hawaii's ...

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 ...