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Ledward Kaapana

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Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948) is a Hawaiian musician, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style. [1]

22 relations: Autoharp, Bass guitar, Bob Brozman, Chet Atkins, Dancing Cat Records, Dennis Pavao, ʻOkina, Falsetto, Fred Punahoa, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album, Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts, Hawaii, Kalapana, Hawaii, Kīlauea, Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship, Slack-key guitar, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Steel guitar, Ukulele.

Autoharp

The Autoharp is a musical instrument in the chorded zither family.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bob Brozman

Bob Brozman (March 8, 1954 – April 23, 2013) was an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr.

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Dancing Cat Records

Dancing Cat Records is a record label founded in 1983 by pianist George Winston to publish both his music and music in the Hawaiian slack-key guitar style.

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Dennis Pavao

Dennis Pavao (July 11, 1951 - January 19, 2002), was one of several Hawaiian musicians who, during the 1970s, led a Hawaiian music renaissance, reviving Hawaiian music, especially "ka leo ki'eki'e," or Hawaiian falsetto singing.

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ʻOkina

The okina, also called by several other names, is a unicameral consonant letter used within the Latin script to mark the phonemic glottal stop, as it is used in many Polynesian languages.

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Falsetto

Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.

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Fred Punahoa

Fred Punahoa (also spelled "Punahou") was a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Kalapana, Hawaii.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Hawaiian Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists from 2005 to 2011 for quality Hawaiian music albums.

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Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts

The Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts (HARA) is a nonprofit organization formed in 1982 to stimulate interest in the local recording industry and the music of Hawaiokinai.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Kalapana, Hawaii

Kalapana is a town and a region in the Puna District on the Island of Hawaiokinai in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Kīlauea

Kīlauea is a currently active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, and the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiokinai.

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Na Hoku Hanohano Awards

The Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, occasionally called the Na Hoku Awards or Hoku Awards, are the premier music awards in Hawaii, and are Hawaii's equivalent of the Grammy Awards.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Heritage Fellowship

The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Slack-key guitar

Slack-key guitar is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii.

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, launched in 1967, is an international exhibition of living cultural heritage presented annually in the summer in Washington, D.C. in the United States.

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Steel guitar

Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledward_Kaapana

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