By all accounts, the 2013 George Kahumoku Slack Key Guitar and Ukulele Workshop was one of the best yet! We had an amazing instructor staff this year that included George Kahumoku, Keoki Kahumoku, Dennis Kamakahi, Kevin Brown, Ledward Kaapana, Owana Salazar, Jason Jerome, Peter deAquino, Derick Sebastian, Wainani Kealoha, Herb Ohta Jr., Martin Pahinui, and Jeff Peterson. It was a fantastic week, culminating, as it does every year, with the workshop students performing on stage at the Annual Maui Slack Key Music Festival at the beautiful Maui Arts and Cultural Center in Kahului.
Joe Tate, a first-time workshop attendee this year, introduced me to a Bb tuning that Led uses to play Koke’e. I’ll include the tuning in the next edition of the tunings manual, and will post more information about it here in the near future.