Jeff Peterson ~ Hawaiian Slack Key Master

"2008 Na Hoku Hanohano Kiho'alu Award" and "Instrumental Album of the Year" for "Pure Slack Key!" was fantastic at this years 26th Annual Slack Key Festival. Here's a bit of history..Slack key guitarist JEFF PETERSON, the son of a Paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy), grew up on Haleakala Ranch on Maui. Peterson's fluency in a variety of guitar styles, including jazz andclassical, has distinguished him as a prominent young artist with his own personal approach to slack key. He was a featured artist on Hawaii's first GRAMMY Award-winning CD, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2" (Best Hawaiian Music Album 1995).

Peterson has performed with Eric Clapton, James Galway, Michael Feinstein, the Honolulu Symphony, Ledward Kaapana, Dennis Kamakahi, Hawaii Opera Theatre, jazz bassist Rufus Reid, shakuhachi master Riley Lee, and soprano Dana Hanchard. He has appeared in Europe, Asia, Australia and the US at countless venues, including the Symphony Space in New York City, and has also performed privately for Bill and Hilary Clinton.

Jeff Peterson has studied with David Russell, Carlos Barbosa Lima, Benjamin Verdery, Ozzie Kotani, Larry Koonse, and Joe Diorio, and has performed in master classes for Scott Tennant, Antigoni Goni, Ricardo Cobo, and Dusan Bogdonovic.

Peterson taught classical guitar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for seven years. He is featured annually in Hawaii's Slack Key Guitar Festivals and can be seen at Michel's in Waikiki every weekend he doesn't have out of town engagements. He currently lives in Honolulu with his wife, Kahealani.

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[okalanikane]

Does he also sing in Hawaiian?

[thetikitorch]

no...just plays great guitar!

[dfritter4]

i like the guy who tried to start clapping to the song at 1:04 , but failed miserably.

[SharinganGuitar]

I was a student of Jeff's back in 2001. He couldn't control my class for nuts back then. All 12 of us would be yelling and shouting at each other at the top of our lungs. We'd play rock on our classicals, doing our best to make ourselves look cool.

But when Jeff sat down and started playing, the whole class would instantly stfu. In 2 secs, we would be completely silent. Everybody's jaws were on the floor in awe. It was amazing.

Good times.

[2bin]

@dfritter4 Probably the same guy who is obnoxiously "woooing".

[dweirdkine2009]

John mayor of Hawaii

[rkcim]

@KKM808 I think its the smoothness that your wanting to here. In this one it sounded a bit less. It wasn't ringing throughout, just my opinion. He sounds really good though.

[craigguitar22]

Nice

Craig Morrison



[dicsballer9]

@SharinganGuitar why were you guys such rowdy little shits? :)

[ShootaFodder]

@incongra Cause Americans are twats like that xD

[incongra]

why does that idiot make whooping noises in the background?

[jeni323]

thunder or wind? either one, even the forces of nature respond to Jeff :) mahalo for vid!

[KKM808]

he's good but i don't get that feeling like i do when i listen to Ray Kane and Led and Gabby