14th Annual Southern California Slack Key Festival (Full Version!)

Download a copy of this video here: https://bit.ly/3v3txwE www.slackkeyfest.com Jeff Peterson, Jim “Kimo” West, Greg Sardinha, Kenneth Makuakane, Pomaika’i Lyman, Malie Lyman, Alan Akaka, Aaron Mahi, Makana, George Kuo, Bobby Moderow, and Kamuela Kimokeo Since 2008, the Southern California Slack Key Festival has been the biggest Hawaiian music concert event in the mainland U.S., and features the most respected names in Hawaiian guitar music and hula today. Taking its name from a finger-picking style of guitar playing indigenous to Hawaii (as heard on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack for "The Descendants"), the Slack Key Festival brings the art of kī hō'alu guitar to Redondo Beach. Played from the heart and soul through the fingers and flowing with vivid tropical images, Hawaiian kī hō'alu (slack key) is truly one of the great acoustic guitar traditions of the world. In slack key, some of the strings are "slacked" from the standard guitar tuning, with the thumb playing the bass notes while the other fingers play the melody and improvise in a finger-picked style.