Name: Masters of Hawaiian Music
Start: 2024-10-09T19:30:00-07:00
Location: 2300 N Fort Valley Road Flagstaff AZ 86001

“Virtuosic keepers of a cultural flame…Bringing folklore & cultural memory into a performance that unfolded as breezy entertainment.” – The New York Times
Three Masters, among the most popular at Maui’s renowned “Slack Key Show®” share Hawai‘i’s unique “slack key” – open tuning --folk styles, with roots in the 19th century paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy) culture. Growing up in rural Hawai‘i, they were immersed from childhood in Hawaiian music and culture that brought families together for entertainment, passing along traditions, and good fun.
“an affable raconteur, mixing his dialogue with passionate renderings of material.” --LA
Four-time Grammy-winner, master slack key guitarist GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR., known as “Hawai‘i’s Renaissance Man”, is a multiple Na Hōkū Hanohano (Hawaiian Grammy) Award winner, a vocalist, storyteller, songwriter & author, teacher, sculptor, farmer, and chef.
"…friendly, generous, self-effacing, a little kolohe (rascally) and a flat out genius at just about any stringed instrument that can be finger-picked." -- Honolulu
National Heritage Fellow and master of slack key guitar, LED KAAPANA has become a legend in Hawaiian music. His mastery of stringed instruments, his exceptional picking style on slack key guitar and ‘ukulele, and his extraordinary baritone to leo ki`eki`e (falsetto) vocal range, have earned him multiple Na Hōkū Awards, including Best ‘Ukulele and Best Slack Key Guitar, and, by popular vote Favorite Entertainer.
“Brilliant . . . Peterson raises the bar a few notches in both slack key and jazz” – Star-Adv With 16 Na Hoku Awards, including 5 for Best Slack Key Guitar, virtuoso JEFF PETERSON is a star of the current generation. Five of his songs are featured in the award-winning George Clooney film The Descendants, and he has composed a Concerto for Slack Key and Orchestra.