In the latest episode of “The Live Ukulele Podcast,” Uncle George sits down with Brad Bordessa to reflect on his life’s work, his students, and what the future holds for the Slack Key Show at the Napili Kai Beach Resort.
My Tutu (grandmother) Ko’oko’o would pick and put the lemons in recycled Best Foods gallon jars & salt each gallon of lemons with a cup of Hawaiian salt that we harvested from the ocean down at the beach in South Kona Kealia.
“I got into slack key strictly for the love of it,” he explains. “I started living out in Hana back in the ’80s and I heard a lot of slack key mostly on albums. Probably the first album I heard was Gabby Pahinui’s ‘Brown Album.’ T
Uncle George played the slack key guitar and sang vocals during the prelude and the sacrament portion of the service, as the congregation shared in the symbolic breaking of bread and wine—representing the body and blood of Christ.