🌺 New album announcement 🌺 Dennis Kamakahi — Slack Key Heaven On October 24, a brand-new Dennis Kamakahi album, Slack Key Heaven, is set to arrive: seven original songs, all previously unreleased and never-before-heard recordings. Intimate, nahenahe, and deeply rooted in place, these performances capture Dennis in that unmistakable ki ho‘alu sway where the melody breathes like trade winds after rain. Dennis Kamakahi’s importance to Hawaiian music is profound. A generation knows his mele — “Kōk

Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawaiʻi “Hiʻilawe” 🎥 A classic television performance of the Waipiʻo Valley anthem, captured in studio with Eddie’s ʻukulele out front and the group’s signature vocal blend and slack key foundation. This take comes from the KGMB series Island Music Island Hearts in the late 1980s, one of several filmed performances of “Hiʻilawe” by the group. Who were the Sons of Hawaiʻi. The band began in 1960 when Eddie Kamae joined with slack key great Gabby Pahinui, bassist Joe M