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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...