In 1970, years after hearing slack key guitar on the radio and falling in love as a child, the Japanese guitarist Yuki “Alani” Yamauchi took an extended trip to Hawaiʻi, ...

Cyril Pahinui, Crown Prince Of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar, Dies At 68 Pahinui, who succumbed to health complications possibly caused by exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam, was drawn ...

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… ...

Dennis Kamakahi, a prolific songwriter and master of slack key guitar whose music helped propel a renaissance of traditional Hawaiian culture in the 1970s and 1980s, died of lung cancer Monday in ...

Despite what you see onstage, Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui - "Uncle Cyril" to legions of fans and students around the world - never performs solo. He's always aware of the presence ...