The Hawaiian Way - Ki Hōʻalu Slack Key 2010 streaming

This film is a moving journey into the beauty and meaning of Hawaiian slack key music. Award-winning director Eddie Kamaes rare combination of master musician and cinematic storyteller is the key to showing how Hawaiis cultural traditions and the ki hoalu guitar intertwine - and opening the door to a greater love of that music. Candid interviews and archival images combine with the music of many virtuoso performers, from legendary Fred Punahou and Gabby Pahinui to Raymond Kane and todays Ledward Kaapana, to tell the slack key story from the 1830s to the present. It shows how this music perpetuates family tradition as songs, techniques and special string tunings are passed from one generation to the next.