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 ...

STEEL guitar may be the most endangered of the instruments associated with Hawaiian music. The ukulele is certainly alive and well; you see it everywhere, and Roy Sakuma is presenting his 40th Annual ...

Mack Thomas started playing the guitar at the age of 7, taking lessons from a door-to-door teacher for a dollar a session. He recorded his first record at age 12, learned the Hawaiian slide guitar ...

Celebrating its 10th year, the Maui Steel Guitar Festival will return to the Valley Isle April 13 to 15. The first two days of the free event are held at Kaanapali Beach Hotel in West Maui, and the ...

The "Sacred Steel" tradition born in the House of God Church some 80 years ago employed the pedal steel and lap steel guitars as the centerpiece of their message. The steel guitars, long an eloquent ...

ACCORDING to Kit Young—an American pianist and composer who has been performing Burmese sandaya music (piano played in Burmese style) since 1987—the Hawaiian slide guitar was probably introduced to ...

KAILUA, Hawaii – 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 ...