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George is one of Hawaii's best known performers of slack key guitar music.
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Maui News: George Kahumoku Jr. and friends captured another Hawaiian music Grammy Award for their "Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2" album, which features several Maui musicians. The award was announced Sunday afternoon (Jan 31, 2010) at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards pre-telecast ceremony in Los Angeles...

Kani Wai: Sound of Water

John Berger of the Honolulu Star Bulletin says,
"Brozman and Kahumoku mesh perfectly here..."

This duet album of Hawaiian music contains three instrumentals and ten vocals sung by Grammy® Award-winning Hawaiian Slack Key Master, George Kahumoku, Jr., playing 12-string guitar, combined with the exotic World Music rhythms of Bob Brozman playing slack key tunings on acoustic lap steel guitar. Four songs also feature the African sounds of Peter Burtt on 26-string kora and two other songs with Gordon Burt on violin. see press release...

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Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar -Volume 2
--Live from Maui
...recorded live from the past year of
Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert Series
52nd Grammy Awards Winner for
Best Hawaiian Music Album!

In this fifth compilation of live music, it is our great pleasure to present music by many of Hawaii’s finest slack key artists: George Kahumoku Jr, Dennis Kamakahi, Sonny Lim, Keoki Kahumoku, Owana Salazar, Kawika Kahiapo, Jeff Peterson, and Daniel Ho.

Includes bonus performances by up and coming young players, plus leo ki’eki’e (Hawaiian falsetto) by Uncle Richard Ho’opi’i. Another included treat features Hawaiian steel guitar by master, Bobby Ingano.

-more details about the CD...

After hectic years of mainland touring, George has returned to Maui to settle down and teach Art at Lahainaluna High School. Nancy has returned with him in Maui. George will continue to play for special events some evenings and weekends, and give private guitar lessons at his Maui home. He will still tour the mainland giving concerts and workshops in the Summertime and over Spring Break.