WHAT: Florida Steel Guitar Jam WHEN: Country Music Show is 6:30-11 p.m. Saturday; Steel Guitar Jam is 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday; Steel guitar seminar with Doug Jernigan is 1:30-4:30 p.m ...

It can whine, cry, and scream, and that is what the pedal steel guitar does on these three iconic country hits.

It wasn’t until he was 14, hearing his older brother play Hawaiian music on his steel guitar at home, that Akaka’s interest in the gliding style was piqued.

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The 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival will be held on Saturday, June 11 at the Kaneohe Windward Mall and begins at 11:30 a.m.

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” ...

Lettes and his elephant-like ears will be on display at the Denver Steel Guitar Show, which is in its second year, at Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret on Sunday, June 30, from 1 to 6 p.m. Lettes ...

The pedal steel guitar is, for many, inextricable from its roots in country music — but its well runs much deeper than providing some smooth twang.

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Akaka, who has been playing Hawaiian steel guitar for more than 50 years, was not initially drawn to the instrument, despite hearing it at parties and luaus while growing up. As an 8-year-old, he ...

He received his master’s degree in 1994 and opened his own school for Hawaiian music in 2009. At first, most of his Hawaiian steel guitar students were adults, Akaka said.