For more than 150 years, slack key guitar, or ki ho’alu, has been the “house music” of Hawaii. Islanders were introduced to guitars by Spanish and Mexican vaqueros and quickly adapted the sound and ...

Opihi moemoe --Yellow ginger lei --Kilakila Haleakala --Willy's tune --Meleana e --Nahenahe --Auwe! --Punahele --Kaneohe Mama --Manini --WaEahila --Hawaiian love ...

Jeff Peterson grew up on the slopes of Haleakalā volcano on Maui. His music is featured on two Grammy-award winning albums and was featured in a major motion picture. He composed a concerto, a piece ...

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 ...

Slack key guitar is the sound of Hawaiian fellowship, protest, and love for native land. Most scholars trace the origin of the indigenous fingerstyle technique—named for the fact that the strings are ...

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 ...

Even if you don’t know exactly what a Hawaiian slack key guitar (or ki ho’alu) is, you can probably easily recognize its music. It’s that smooth, sweet sound that evokes island breezes and warm sunny ...

It's snowing up and down mainland America's east coast today, and in Chicago, the airport's been socked in. But way out mid-Pacific, in the balmy Hawaiian islands, snow is not a factor. It's sunshine ...

The best musicians are usually the most versatile, such as Jim “Kimo” West. Van Nuys resident West is the guitarist for “Weird Al” Yankovic, whose latest effort, the chart-topping “Mandatory Fun” (RCA ...