It’s the perfect prelude to the 26th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Festival on August
17: The fourth annual Ledward Ka’apana Aloha Acoustic Workshop, hosted by the
Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach. The workshops, held August 13 to 16, 2008, are a rare opportunity to learn from four Grammy nominees and Japan’s #1 female
slack key artist, Agnes Kimura.The registration fee for the Aloha Acoustic Workshop is $700 and includes four
full days of educational workshops and music sessions. To sign up, call the
Kihoalu Foundation at 08-226-2697 or send an e-mail to kihoalufoundationinc@yahoo.com. The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Slack Key participants who stay at Outrigger Waikiki or Outrigger Reef receive $100 off the Aloha Acoustic Workshop fee.

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A few years ago, before we had to worry about keeping regular hours and feeding a little one before the witching hour, we followed our friends to a beach in Princeville, where their friends played their ukuleles nightly, at sunset. They played a lot of mainstream faves, including Puff the Magic Dragon, which I learned to play on my own ukulele the year I turned 12. This kind of setting isn’t the only way to take in a show on the islands, though. All year-round, there are events of all sizes, flavors, and settings.

• The annual Big Island Music Festival is coming to the UH Hilo Performing Arts Center
• Hawai’i Slack Key Guitar Festival happens in Kapiolani Park, Honolulu.
• Of course, there’s Don Ho’s Island Grill in Honolulu.
• Chamber Music Hawai’i keeps it cultural.

Because music is such an important part of island culture, ukulele or no, you’re bound to find every opportunity to take in the sounds of Hawai’i wherever you are. And if all else fails, there’s always the radio.

Photo by Flickr–Creative Commons, by adampiggot

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