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 ...

Hawaiian slack key guitar is a finger picking style that stands with the world’s great guitar traditions like flamenco and blues. Its resonant sound often associated with Hawaii is alive, evolving and ...

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 ...

A dozen of Hawaii’s most talented slack-key guitarists are on the bill of the 27th Annual Kona Style Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival. “We have a very diverse lineup of great musicians,” said Milton ...

Slack-key master George Kuo, holding his favorite double-neck guitar, opens the Fifth Annual “Westside” Hawaiian Slack key Guitar Festival on Sunday. Kuo revealed the split Saturday, just after a ...