Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

The guitar, the banjo, the mandolin, the fiddle, and the upright bass are just a few of the instruments commonly associated with country music. Though there is one instrument missing from that list, ...

Junior Brown and his world-famous guit-steel — a hybrid of an electric six-string guitar and a steel guitar that Brown invented — are returning to Baton Rouge on Thursday, June 25, for a show at the ...

Alvino Rey may not be a household name today, but Rey's genre-busting fretwork in electric music's nascent years helped set the stage for modern rock. Courtesy of Lynn A Wheelwright-Alvino Rey Archive ...

The Campbell Brothers present Sacred Steel: African-American Gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocal at 8 p.m. today at the Alberta Bair Theater. Their type of religious music is described ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – The first Live Steel Guitar Music Festival has returned to Oahu. The 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival will be held on Saturday, June 11 at the Kaneohe Windward Mall and begins at ...

Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his right thumb, ...