Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

Wayne Colwell, executive vice president of store operations, and Ron Japinga, CEO of Guitar Center, at the May 10, 2019, grand opening of Guitar Center in the Pearl ...

Musicians and fans of the steel guitar gathered to celebrate Hawaii’s gift to the world at the second annual Kona Steel Guitar Festival held April 4-6 at the Outrigger Kona Resort and Spa.

Sorry, ukulele. Hawaii won't spurn the steel guitar to sound its love for you. Bills in the state Legislature that would've declared the friendly little guitar the ...

After investing a reported $5 million renovating its 30,000-square-foot flagship store in Hollywood last year, Guitar Center just landed in Hawaii with a new store in Pearl City, just a few miles from ...

Is Hawaiian steel guitar the most endangered of the instruments associated with contemporary Hawaiian music? You wouldn’t know it from the number of CDs that Hawaii’s major steel guitarists have ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – The first Live Steel Guitar Music Festival has returned to Oahu. The 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival will be held on Saturday, June 11 at the Kaneohe Windward Mall and begins at ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. » An auction of Elvis Presley memorabilia, including a guitar he played during his 1973 “Aloha from Hawaii” concert, will be part of a celebration for what would have been the late rock ...

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 ...

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 ...