It was Willie K’s dad, Manu Kahaiali’i, who gave Barry Flanagan his first slack key guitar lesson, which eventually led him to forming the acclaimed, multi-Na-Hoku Award winning contemporary Hawaiian ...

To learn slack key guitar, you may want to start with the roots. First, you fly over to Maui, then get transportation to Kahakuloa on the northern part of the island, about an hour an a half from ...

Ki-ho‘alu Foundation will present the 28th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival – Kona Style – for all the fans of Hawaiian music and slack key guitar on Hawaii Island. The festival is scheduled ...

NOT LONG AGO, East Bay native Patrick Landeza was the most sought-after slack-key guitar teacher and performer in the Bay Area. By 2006, the now 35-year old had released three albums and toured the ...

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 ...