According to Matthew Swalinkavich, known by fans as Makana, there are obvious reasons that few musicians master slack key guitar. "It's a very challenging style technically, and it's hard to learn ...

Kahumoku Jr. is a master of Hawaiian music, known for his work on slack key guitar and ukulele. Known as “Uncle George,” he’s ...

Patrick Landeza has spent much of his life studying Hawaiian music history. Now, he’s actually part of it. The Berkeley-born musician made history recently when he became the first mainland artist to ...

Peterson plays the slack-key guitar, which is a type of guitar playing that originated in Hawaii. In the 1830s, visiting Spanish and Mexican cowboys brought guitars to the Hawaiian cattle ranches, ...

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 ...

Leave the winter blues behind and enjoy Hawaii's tropical breezes when Keola and Moana Beamer, the "First Family of Hawaiian Music," perform Sunday evening. Keola Beamer is considered to be the ...

Kala Koa Entertainment celebrates 13 years of bringing the biggest and brightest names in Hawaiian music to the mainland with the 2020 Southern California Slack Key Festival returning to the Redondo ...

CORVALLIS — Fall is speedily transmorphing into winter, smothering the mid-valley underneath a heavy coat of rain and gloom. On Friday, Nov. 11, however, visiting musician Jeff Peterson will help ...