This year’s George Kahumoku Jr. Slack Key Guitar & Ukulele Workshop just wound up on Maui and, by all accounts, it was one of the most successful workshops to date. The workshop staff included George Khumoku Jr., Jeff Peterson, Paul Togioka, Ledward Kaapana, Kevin Brown, Herb Ohta Jr., Derick Sebastian, Garrett Probst, Jason Jerome, Wainani Kealoha, Joel Katz, and Wende Keaka Stitt.
Classes included beginning to advanced slack key guitar and ukulele instruction, Hawaiian steel guitar, hula, and Hawaiian kapa making. The workshop was held this year at the Napili Kai Beach Resort, where evening kanikapilas concluded each day’s activities. On the final Sunday of the workshop, students performed on stage at the Annual Maui Slack Key Guitar Festival at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului. The 2014 workshop saw record attendance, with new folks accounting for almost half of the participants.
