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 ...

Originally produced as a documentary in 2000. Special features: About the Arhoolie Foundation. Program notes inserted in container. Elder Maurice "Ted" Beard, The Campbell Brothers with Katie Jackson, ...

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath Chautauqua ...

Take it on faith and go to the end of Legion Drive, a tiny road off of FM 78 in Converse. It dead ends at American Legion Post 593. Inside the post’s Marty Frank Memorial Hall, a handful of steel ...

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 ...