Let your ears take you on a one-night vacation to Hawaii when acknowledged masters of Hawaiian slack key guitar Led Kaapana and Mike Kaawa perform at The Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters, on ...

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 ...

Music fans can let their ears take them on a one-night vacation to Hawaii when Led Kaapana, acknowledged master of Hawaiian music, performs at The Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters, at 8 p.m.

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 ...

The closest thing to flying to Hawaii for a night may be getting a seat to see Makana play at The Neptune Theatre Friday, Sept. 29. Makana, 39, has been called the master of the slack-key guitar, a ...

ON HIS STEEL-string Martin guitar, Cyril Pahinui's playing is bright and lyrical. If you didn't know better, you'd swear those 12 strings belonged to more than just one instrument, as the master ...

Hawaiian slack key guitar master Jeff Peterson will perform “Malama ‘Aina,” the first concerto written for slack key guitar and orchestra, this weekend with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra. From its ...

Four-time Grammy winner George Kahumoko Jr., with Kawika Kahiapo and Nathan Aweau, brings the Masters of Hawaiian Music tour — filled with traditional and original Hawaiian tunes — to the California ...

One of the greatest acoustic guitar traditions in the world is a fingerstyle guitar unique to Hawaii. Slack key guitar or “ki ho’alu,” which translates to “loosen the tuning key,” starts with standard ...

They were Mexican workers on foreign soil and, as usual, they brought their music with them. It is believed to have been the 1830s and the workers were cowboys, brought to the Waimea area of Hawaii’s ...