Since releasing 'Altar of Harmony,' his 2020 debut on Jack White's Third Man Records, Luke Schneider has been redefining the role of the pedal steel guitar and showing audiences how dynamic the ...

The Kohala Girls in 1935. Letritia Kandle is seated (second left) with a national resonator guitar. Letritia Kandle and Paul Whiteman standing next to the grand letar at the Chicago Drake Hotel in ...

On this day (November 18) in 2007, legendary pedal steel guitar player John Hughey died at the age of 73. His distinctive “crying steel” style appeared on the recordings of multiple A-list acts. He ...

When Alan Akaka was growing up, a young musician in his teens and 20s in Honolulu, he played steel guitar with some of the top names in Hawaiian music. When they spoke, he listened: Genoa Keawe: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Accomplished steel guitar player and producer Robby Turner, who has played with artists including Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

The 7th Annual Waikiki Steel Guitar Week is ready to kick off in Waikiki celebrating Hawaiian music and the Hawaiian steel guitar, July 6 to 12. Royal Hawaiian Center’s Cultural Director Monte ...

Patrick Landeza is coming out of (semi) retirement to perform a big Bay Area show. Having pretty much stayed out of the performance spotlight in recent years — while concentrating on his many other ...

Vermont is known for many things, including but not limited to maple syrup, outdoor activities and long, snowy winters. I chose to enroll at UVM knowing well that the winter season would be mentally ...

The pantheon of great guitarists includes names like Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, Jimmi Hendrix, Slash, and Eddie Van Halen. Put the name Joseph Kekuku at the top of that list. He changed music more ...