Jim ‘Kimo’ West And Ken Emerson. A Hawaiian Fandango With Two

From December 10, 2016 7:00 pm until December 10, 2016 9:00 pm

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JIM ‘KIMO’ WEST and KEN EMERSON. A Hawaiian Fandango with two Stars of The Slack Key Guitar. Also vocals and, perhaps, a bit of dancing.

Jim “kimo” West tours with Weird Al Yankovitch and is on home for the

Holidays this tour. See them now.

Slack key is the perfect sound for the holidays! Kimo will be playing tracks from his two acclaimed holiday slack key CD's: this one and that one. Special guest Ken Emerson joins Kimo to play tracks from their new release, "Slackers In Paradise" as well as cuts from his own holiday "slack and steel" CD, "A Backporch Slack and Steel Christmas”.

KEN EMERSON plays both Hawaiian Slack Key and lap steel guitar and switches easily between them during his performance, laying his guitar on his lap and picking up a steel bar for an instrumental interlude. This requires a special finesse and light touch because the slack key guitar has lower action than a dedicated lap steel guitar. He developed his unique style through many musical genres. He has played his special blend of Blues/Jazz Hawaiian guitar for 40 years.. Born into a musical family, Ken grew up with his fathers’ extensive record collection of jazz, swing, Hawaiian and world music styles.