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NAPILI, MAUI – In 2003, the
weekly Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert Series
began fulfilling a passion and mission of promoting and supporting
traditional Hawaiian music in a consistent venue. Since that time
over 300 consecutive weekly performances have been produced,
welcoming over 35,000 guests to the shows. Along the way recognition
and validation has been received in the form of four Grammy
nominations for Best Hawaiian Music Album, winning three Grammy
awards; winning the Hawai`i Music Awards and a Keep It Hawai`i
Recognition Award, confirming that the music and stories coming out
of this concert series are authentic and of the highest caliber.
Concert co-producers
Wayne Wong, Paul Konwiser and George Kahumoku Jr
said,
"Thinking
of the future, we want to be able to do these wonderful shows
for years to come. But with visitors on Maui at record low
levels, and a normally slow fall season approaching, we‘ve
decided to take a break, catch our breath, and come back even
stronger. We are going to suspend our weekly Wednesday
performances at the conclusion of the August schedule, and
restart them on December 30, 2009."
During the break the
production team will be working on improving and evolving the show
to make it even better. In addition, the team just released their
newest CD, Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar -Volume 2,
the fifth compilation of live music captured at the weekly Masters
of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Concert Series at The Napili Kai Beach
Resort on Maui.
The co-producers
emphasized. "We‘re grateful to our audiences, our wonderful
musicians and the Maui community for supporting our show. We‘ll be
back in December with a show that will be better than ever. See you
then!"
More information
and the new performance schedule will be posted on the website at www.slackkey.com. |
