Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue ...

The Hawaiian steel guitar became a cultural force in America at the turn of the century, popularized by troupes of traveling musicians from Hawaii. It evolved beyond its association with a tropical ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – The first Live Steel Guitar Music Festival has returned to Oahu. The 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival will be held on Saturday, June 11 at the Kaneohe Windward Mall and begins at ...

The Kohala Girls in 1935. Letritia Kandle is seated (second left) with a national resonator guitar. Letritia Kandle and Paul Whiteman standing next to the grand letar at the Chicago Drake Hotel in ...

From the lilting music of Hawaii to the wail of country and western, from the tropical islands to Kalamazoo, the Hawaiian steel guitar made its mark during the 20th century. But the history of the ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – Keiki students from the Alan Akaka’s Ke Kula Mele Hawai’i School of Hawaiian Music will be performing some of Hawaii’s favorite traditional and contemporary Hawaiian music at the ...

Preface. B.B.'s dreams -- Introduction -- Guitar culture in the Hawaiian Kingdom -- Joseph Kekuku's steel guitar and the era of overthrow -- American debut : the making of the steel guitar craze -- ...

There's no music in the world quite like Hawaii's slack-key guitar. This unlikely marriage of the Spanish guitar with and Polynesia's rippling rhythms gets its name from the islanders' habit of ...

Who could have imagined that a few serendipitous events on a remote Pacific island in the 19th century would fundamentally change American music. In 1832 Hawaii's king brought Mexican cowboys to the ...

Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his right thumb, ...