Hawaiian music: The giants of slack key - San Francisco Chronicle

Hawaiian music: The giants of slack key
San Francisco Chronicle
did for old-timey Americana, the largely unheralded soundtrack of "The Descendants" — said to be the first Hollywood movie scored exclusively with Hawaiian music — has introduced millions of moviegoers to the giants of slack key guitar and the ...

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Hawaiian artists entertain - Sioux City Journal

Hawaiian artists entertain
Sioux City Journal
Four-time Grammy-winner, master slack key guitarist George Kahumoku Jr., known as Hawaii's Renaissance Man, is also a multiple Hawaiian Grammy Award winner. Keoki Kahumoku, fifth generation slack-key guitarist, began performing with his father George ...

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Slack-key superstar bringing sound of Hawaii to Sheboygan - The Sheboygan Press

Slack-key superstar bringing sound of Hawaii to Sheboygan
The Sheboygan Press
George Kahumoku Jr., multiple Grammy Award-winning master slack key guitarist, songwriter, world-traveling performer, high school and college teacher, artist, storyteller and writer, farmer and entrepreneur, will perform at the Stefanie H. Weill Center ...

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Slack Key Festival brings warm Hawaiian sounds to Redondo Beach - Daily Breeze

Slack Key Festival brings warm Hawaiian sounds to Redondo Beach
Daily Breeze
To some, the laid-back hum of a slack key guitar brings flashes of potent mai tais, warm trade winds and expensive hotel bills. But to others, the distinctive Hawaiian sound is much more - a uniquely American music style, deeply rooted in tradition and ...
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The Descendants: Slack Key Festival continues a tradition that goes back to ... - Easy Reader News


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The Descendants: Slack Key Festival continues a tradition that goes back to ...
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This began to change in the 1940s and 1950s when a musician named Gabby Pahinui became the first man to record slack key guitar. Pahinui worked by day doing pick and shovel work as a laborer in road crews, but beginning with his recording of the ...
'The Descendants' music coming to South Bay LA Observed

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The Prowler: Trouble in Paradise: The Descendants - my.hsj.org

The Prowler: Trouble in Paradise: The Descendants
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Images of the lush, tropical 50 th state and the sounds of Hawaiian slack key guitars fill the air; with an opening like this, one expects a happy-go-lucky Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated trip to the movies. However, the 2011 film The ...

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John Cruz and more Hawaiian slack key in Santa Cruz - San Francisco Chronicle (blog)


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John Cruz and more Hawaiian slack key in Santa Cruz
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
In case you missed the roundup of Hawaiiana highlights in Monterey and Santa Cruz in my Central Coasting column earlier this week, tonight offers two enticing Aloha Friday options: Award-winning singer-songwriter and slack key guitarist John Cruz plays ...

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