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 ...

Music is in the air this week as several venues around the island are hosting concerts, live bands and even dance shows ...

The annual Maui Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival will feature some of our state’s most gifted musicians performing free on April 12 and 13 at Lahaina’s Outlets of Maui, and then at the Queen Ka’ahumanu ...

When Alan Akaka was growing up, a young musician in his teens and 20s in Honolulu, he played steel guitar with some of the top names in Hawaiian music. When they spoke, he listened: Genoa Keawe: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...