Open Space for Arts & Community presents slack key guitar master, singer, composer, and pioneer of the SLACK ROCK guitar style -- Makana.

Voted one of America's Top 3 guitarists by Guitar Player Magazine in 2008, Makana's music transcends category and trend by integrating elements of folk, rock, ethnic, classical, bluegrass, jazz, traditional, ambient, electronic and Hawaiian slack key.

Makana's music can be heard in the Academy Award winning movie 'The Descendants'. He's toured with a wide array of internationally recognized artists, including Jason Mraz, Santana, Elvis Costello, Sting, No Doubt, Jack Johnson, and John Legend.

Makana is also recognized for the occupy/protest song "We Are The Many" he wrote and performed at the APEC summit in Honolulu on November 12, 2011 in front of President Obama and 20 world leaders.


Slack key guitar music, indigenous to Hawai'i, has been around longer than the blues, and Makana is considered the greatest living player."
- Esquire Magazine

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