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Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used for centuries, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...
Slack-key guitar is a fingerpicked style that originated in Hawaii. The English term is a translation of the Hawaiian kī hō‘alu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key". Slack key is nearly always played in open or altered tunings—the most common tuning is G-major (D–G–D–G–B–D), called "taropatch", though there is a family of ...
Raymond Kaleoalohapoinaʻoleohelemanu [a] Kāne [1] (/ ˈ k ɑː n eɪ /, Hawaiian:; October 2, 1925 – February 27, 2008), [2] was one of Hawaii's acknowledged masters of the slack-key guitar. Born in Koloa , Kauaʻi , he grew up in Nanakuli on Oʻahu 's Waiʻanae Coast where his stepfather worked as a fisherman.
Slack events are events that do not fit into the normal rodeo hours in the afternoon. Slack rodeo events are open to the public at no charge and usually take place in the early to mid morning hours. Slack events include tie-down roping, team roping, steer roping, barrel racing, breakaway roping and steer wrestling. [11]
George Kahumoku Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning Hawaiian musician specializing in slack-key guitar. Born in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, he was labeled as "Hawaii's Renaissance Man" by Nona Beamer because of his far reaching talents: farmer, author, musician and composer, sculptor and artist, and Hawaiian cultural practitioner, particularly as it relates to the land or 'aina.
Slack key guitarists representing several generations of this uniquely Hawaiian musical tradition will share the stage Aug. 31 when Milton Lau, the Ki-ho ‘alu Foundation and the Waikiki Aquarium ...
Chillingworth helped lead a revival of the slack-key guitar style in the 1980s as one of slack key's elder statesmen. He was committed to Hawaiian music; he also played other styles such as rock-n-roll, R&B, blues, and folk, and his music featured aspects of fado and cachi cachi. [2]
It's been called the most dangerous eight seconds in sports. In bull riding, that's how long athletes strive to stay on the bucking animal. The sport has a rich and often violent history ...