According to Matthew Swalinkavich, known by fans as Makana, there are obvious reasons that few musicians master slack key guitar. "It's a very challenging style technically, and it's hard to learn ...

Patrick Landeza has spent much of his life studying Hawaiian music history. Now, he’s actually part of it. The Berkeley-born musician made history recently when he became the first mainland artist to ...

To learn slack key guitar, you may want to start with the roots. First, you fly over to Maui, then get transportation to Kahakuloa on the northern part of the island, about an hour an a half from ...

Drawing from over 20 years of teaching experience twotime GRAMMY Nominated and eighttime Na Hoku Hanohano Awardwinning guitarist Jeff Peterson shares his knowledge of Hawaiian slack key guitar during ...

Who is Makana, you ask? I personally consider him the Jimi Hendrix of slack key guitar playing. He’s young, unique, re-defining his genre, and he plays a mean guitar. The Hawaiian native is back in ...

NOT LONG AGO, East Bay native Patrick Landeza was the most sought-after slack-key guitar teacher and performer in the Bay Area. By 2006, the now 35-year old had released three albums and toured the ...