At the vintage Palace Theater, a slack-key guitar concert was headed by one of the famed Pahinui brothers, Cyril. |
Flanagan was a New Jersey kid more than 30 years ago when he heard slack-key guitar played by Hawaiian music legend Gabby Pahinui. |
The song is Hollywood, but Hoku's voice, her face, and her smile are pure aloha, the music as lilting as Hawaiian slack-key guitar. |
Other performers will include the Smothers brothers and The Capitol Steps comedy teams, American Indian flutist Carlos Nakai and Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Keola Beamer. |
The anonymous slack-key syncopator imbues this movie with mysterious, tender qualities that don't exist in Wong's empty screenplay. |
The screenings were preceded by traditional hula dancing and slack-key guitar music. |