“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
We are blessed to have on our team Karen Fischer, who is our booking agent. She heads and attends regional and national booking events that help us get bookings nationwide in the continental USA as well as in Canada.
When I was growing up, in Kealia, we attended Puka’ana Church (A United Church of Christ) across the street, about a football field away from our home. All 26 cousins, uncles, aunties, and our grandparents would sing Hawaiian Hymns and play Hawaiian music every Sunday.