🌺 New release alert 🌺 On Friday, September 19, we bring Cyril Pahinui's Hi‘ilawe Live album back to the world. This is not just a rerelease. It is the return of a porch evening where songs breathe easy, the trade winds move through the tuning, and a beloved mele from Waipiʻo Valley comes alive again in real time. Cyril’s voice settles into the melody, the guitar lines flow with that unhurried slack key sway, and the feeling is immediate. To set the tone for release week, watch two masters shar

Here’s a classic Sons of Hawaiʻi moment: George Kuo leads “Slack Key No. 1,” with Dennis Kamakahi alongside on guitar. You can feel the easy, natural back-and-forth that defined this lineup under the steady hand of founder Eddie Kamae. 🌺🎸 The Sons of Hawaiʻi began in 1960 when Eddie Kamae and Gabby Pahinui gathered Joe Marshall and David “Feet” Rogers for packed nights at the Sandbox in Honolulu. From those beginnings, the group became a cornerstone of the Hawaiian cultural renaissance, with K

Featured regularly at Maui’s renowned Slack Key Show, this group melds together the uniquely Hawaiian styles of slack key guitar, ukulele, and songs, both traditional and new. George Kahumoku Jr., is a master slack key guitarist, a four-time Grammy Award winner, and an accomplished songwriter. Daniel Ho is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and performer, with talent and versatility on ukulele, slack key guitar, piano, and vocals. nternational star and two-time Grammy winner Tia Carrer

Here is Dennis Kamakahi with a tender performance of “Far Away,” filmed at the HI*Sessions studio. Voice and guitar carry a quiet ache, the kind of long distance love Dennis wrote so beautifully. 🌺🎸 “Far Away” is one of Dennis’s English language love songs. The lyrics trace longing and remembrance with simple images like wishing on a star and hearing a loved one in the wind. It is an intimate, direct style that sits alongside his Hawaiian language classics yet speaks to the same themes of devo