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What is the Real Sound of Hawaii?

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Along with the call of the conch, slack-key guitar music has become synonymous with the sound of Hawaii. And for the third consecutive year, a slack-key album took the Grammy for Best Hawaiian Album. But islanders say there is much more to their music. We speak with Daniel Ho, producer of the Grammy winning Legends Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Live from Maui, and Hawaiian journalist Gary Chun, about Hawaiian music today.


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