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Celebrating Slack Key and the Sweetness of Life
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Celebrating Slack Key and the Sweetness of Life

By Timothy Sandefur

Jan 24, 2019
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Every January, fans of Hawaiian ki ho‘alu (“slack key”) guitar music gather in Redondo Beach, California, for the mainland’s largest Hawaiian music festival. This weekend’s show—to a sold-out crowd of nearly fifteen hundred—brought together some of slack key’s leading performers to celebrate this unique, spirit-lifting style.

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