Linda Chase One of the first lessons George Kuo learned from his slack key mentors is don’t give up your day job. They might ...

Learning to play an instrument takes significant time and effort, especially when learning independently. As a mostly self-taught guitarist, I have found the internet, particularly YouTube, to be an ...

Mary Flower finally convinced her parents to buy her an acoustic guitar when she was around the age of 12, growing up in Indiana more than six decades ago. Inspired by the folk stylings of Bob Dylan ...

A Toledo musician has opened a museum to preserve the history of sacred steel, an African American gospel tradition built ...

Ken Emerson will perform Sept. 24 as part of George Kahumoku Jr.’s “Slack Key Show” at the Napili Kai Beach Resort. Courtesy photo Back in the early 1980s you could find Grammy-winning guitarist Ken ...

Sharon Garcia Doyle, left, and Ariana Agadong will be in the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival’s season opening production of “Comedy of Errors.” To see more information and the full 2025-2026 theater ...

I first heard about Saxon Weiss when I was interviewing singer/songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter before his show at Saint Rocke in December. “There’s a kid that lives in town, he’s a 12-year-old little ...

Patrick Landeza is coming out of (semi) retirement to perform a big Bay Area show. Having pretty much stayed out of the performance spotlight in recent years — while concentrating on his many other ...

When he’s not playing lead guitar touring and recording with “Weird Al” Yankovic, Grammy winning musician Jim “Kimo” West pursues his love for Hawaiian slack key guitar. Releasing several acclaimed ...

From pav bhaji to pulled pork, everything tastes better with a Hawaiian sweet roll. Molly McArdle is Food & Wine's Updates Editor. She has written and edited stories about food, wine, culture, place, ...

The Hawaiian crow, or ‘alalā, has been extinct in the wild since 2002. A new effort to reintroduce birds of this species—considered important guides to the souls of the dead in Hawaiian ...

Martin has unveiled an all-new acoustic guitar body shape with the launch of the O’ahu HG-28, a guitar that honours the pre-Golden Era early acoustic designs inspired by the popularity of Hawaiian ...