Name: 2024 Seattle Slack Key Festival
Start: 2024-11-10T13:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-11-10T13:00:00-08:00
Location: The Great Hall

2024 Seattle Slack Key Festival

Celebrating 16 Years of Hawaiian music

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Date:: Sunday, November 10
Time:: 1:00 pm PST
Cost:: $40 - $60

Venue

: The Great Hall
: 1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue)
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Presented by Kala Koa Entertainment. For questions about this event, please contact kalakoaent@mac.com.

A person wearing a red gingham button-down and newsboy cap smiles and plays a double neck acoustic guitar in front of a microphone.

Rentals

Kala Koa Entertainment celebrates 16 years of bringing the biggest and brightest names in Hawaiian music to Seattle with the 2024 Seattle Slack Key Festival returning to Town Hall Sunday, November 10, 2024.

Produced by Kala Koa Entertainment, the Seattle Slack Key Festival celebrates the legacy of Hawaiian ki ho’alu (slack key), considered one of the great acoustic guitar traditions of the world, and takes fans on a Hawaiian musical journey showcasing GRAMMY-winning and Na Hoku Hanohao award-winning musicians from the islands and the mainland U.S.

Taking its name from a finger-picking style of guitar playing indigenous to Hawaii (as heard on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack for “The Descendants”), the Seattle Slack Key Festival brings the art of ki ho’alu guitar to Town Hall.

What is Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Music? Played from the heart and soul through the fingers and flowing with vivid tropical images, Hawaiian ki ho’alu (slack key) is truly one of the great acoustic guitar traditions of the world. In slack key, some of the strings are “slacked” from the standard guitar tuning, with the thumb playing the bass notes while the other fingers play the melody and improvise in a finger-picked style.

This year’s Slack Key Festival line-up includes George Kuo, Jeff Peterson, Kawika Kahiapo, Jim “Kimo” West, Ken Emerson, Anthony Pfluke, and Pomaika’i & Malie Lyman.