Dancing Cat Records

14/08/2024

Friends in Seattle! Celebrate some of the most respected names in Hawaiian music and hula including Dancing Cat's George Kuo Slack Key Guitar! Don't miss the Seattle Slack Key Festival on November 10th at Town Hall Seattle.

Get your tickets now: https://slackkeyfest.com/seattle-festival

12/04/2024

Don't miss the 2024 Waimānalo - Kanikapila! Join us for a day of spectacular music at Waimānalo Beach Park on April 20! The Waimanalo Kanikapila, presented by the Na'alehu Theatre and Pahinui Productions, is FREE to attend and is supported by t-shirt sales.

Get yours now at: cyrilpahinui.com/product/cyril-2024-tee/

01/02/2024

The 2024 Waimānalo - Kanikapila is coming to Waimānalo Beach Park on April 20th! The concert, presented by the Na'alehu Theatre and Pahinui Productions, is FREE to attend and is supported by t-shirt sales.

Get yours now at: https://cyrilpahinui.com/product/cyril-2024-tee/

12/01/2024

The biggest Hawaiian music event of the year is THIS WEEKEND! Join us for the Southern California Slack Key Festival in Redondo Beach this Sunday! Come take a figurative trip to the islands and discover real Hawaiian music and culture - only a couple hundred more tickets available so grab yours today before they're gone!

Get yours before it's too late: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/kalakoa/1723/event/1310790

19/12/2023

The biggest Hawaiian music concert event in the mainland US is returning to Southern California for its 17th year! Join us for the Southern California Slack Key Festival on January 14th in Redondo Beach, CA, and enjoy some of the most respected names in Hawaiian music and hula today.

Tickets available at: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/kalakoa/1723/event/1310790

12/12/2023

It's time to spread some holiday cheer! Join Jim "Kimo" West for his Annual Holiday Show that will be streaming on December 17, 2023 | 4pmPT/7pmET. Kimo will be performing holiday classics from both of his Christmas albums along with some of your classic favorites.

Get your tickets now: jimkimowest.com/store

25/11/2023

We're officially one month away from Christmas! Let the countdown commence and let us help spread the holiday cheer with a special Hawaiian Christmas playlist. What's your favorite song to listen to during the holiday season?

Listen to a few of our favorites: https://spoti.fi/3R9hnzh

23/11/2023

Get into the Holiday spirit with Amazon Music's specially curated "Christmas Instrumentals" playlist featuring two incredible Dancing Cat artists, Moses Kahumoku and Keola Beamer.

Listen now at: music.amazon.com/playlists/B016EDLC5I

10/11/2023

Seattle friends! Join us this Sunday, November 12th for the 17th Annual Seattle Slack Key Festival. Immerse yourself in the wonderful serenity, lighting, and acoustics of the Town Hall Theater for an exceptional lineup of Hawaiʻi’s Master Musicians, food, crafts, hula, and ukulele + slack key workshops!

Get your tickets and more info at seattleslackkeyfestival.com

20/09/2023

Fashion Week Hawaii's Aloha Shirt Festival is happening on September 29th & 30th in Kailua-Kona. Join in for two days of fun focusing on Hawaii's wearable arts and the local garment industry with runway shows, vintage exhibits, pop-up markets, workshops, a lei-contest, and a superstar lineup of musicians.

Used Aloha Shirts will be collected & auctioned off or sold to raise money for Maui Strong and all donations made directly on the Aloha Shirt Festival website will be added to the efforts as a direct match for their kokua.

Get more information, make a donation, and get your tickets at alohashirtfestival.com

06/09/2023

If you're in the Bay Area, please check out a special screening of Hawaiian documentaries by local filmmakers at Half Moon Bay on Thursday, September 7th. Enjoy two films including Ki Ho’alu: That’s Slack Key! by Susan Friedman that dives into the colorful world of Slack Key guitarists in Hawaii. All proceeds will go to the Maui Strong Fund to support residents affected by the wildfires.

Get more information at: visithalfmoonbay.org/events/special-benefit-maui-film-screening

15/08/2023

With George’s love for Hawaiian Slack Key music and his passion for helping those in need, we wanted to share these resources to help the people of Maui after the devastating wildfires in Lahaina. Please consider donating to the Hawaii Community Foundation, Maui Food Bank, or the Slack Key Show Ohana Fire Relief GoFundMe campaign, organized by George Winston's sister Nancy Kahamoku, in support of local Hawaiian Slack Key artists. Thankfully Nancy's and her husband George Kahamoku’s home was spared by the fire, but they, and the Slack Key Show Ohana (family), have a long road of recovery ahead of them.

Hawaii Community Foundation: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong
Maui Food Bank: https://mauifoodbank.org/donate/
Slack Key Show Ohana - Fire Relief Fund: https://gofund.me/2f590504

06/06/2023

We are deeply saddened to share the news that George Winston has passed on after a 10-year battle with cancer. George quietly and painlessly left this world while asleep on Sunday, June 4, 2023. George courageously managed serious cancers, including having a successful bone marrow transplant for Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) in 2013 at City of Hope, in Duarte, California, that gratefully extended his life by 10 years. Throughout his cancer treatments, George continued to write and record new music, and he stayed true to his greatest passion: performing for live audiences while raising funds for Feeding America to help fight the national hunger crisis along with donating proceeds from each of his concerts to local food banks. Across an illustrious career spanning more than 50 years, George’s music first became known and loved by his fans with the release of his two most iconic albums, Autumn (1980) and December (1982). George's recordings evolved with the times while garnering a GRAMMY Award for Forest (plus five GRAMMY nominations) and selling over 15 million albums. George touched the hearts of generations with his acclaimed solo acoustic piano compositions. From his early days in Montana, Mississippi and Florida, to his later life living in the San Francisco Bay Area and touring to cities worldwide, America’s beautiful landscapes and natural seasons shaped his singular instrumental folk piano. With 16 solo piano albums to his name, George recorded brilliant piano music, which includes tribute recordings for Vince Guaraldi, The Doors, a Hurricane Katrina relief benefit, Gulf Coast and Louisiana Wetlands benefits, September 11 benefit, a cancer research benefit for City of Hope, the Peanuts episode “This Is America Charlie Brown: The Birth Of The Constitution,” among others. George’s legacy includes his beloved catalog as well as an archive of his own acoustic guitar and harmonica recordings, and albums by an array of Hawaiian slack key artists on his own record label, Dancing Cat Records. George is pre-deceased by his parents, George and Mary Winston, and is survived by his sister, niece and nephew.

The family of George Winston will hold a private memorial service. For donations in memory of George Winston, please visit:

Feeding America:
https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeWinstonFeedingAmerica

City Of Hope Cancer Center:
https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeWinstonCityOfHope

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center:
https://tinyurl.com/GeorgeWinstonSloanKettering

06/04/2023

"It's been wonderful to be involved with this film about the late, great, Michael Hedges. I feel it's a very necessary document of the wonderful work he did, and to further make his work available to people who did not have the pleasure of hearing him live and knowing him like I did." - George Winston

You can become a contributor to the crowdfunding campaign for the Michael Hedges documentary at https://bit.ly/oraclefilm

04/04/2023

George Winston was the first interviewee for the upcoming feature documentary about Grammy® award-winning guitarist and fellow Windham Hill artist Michael Hedges. Watch this clip from the film's fundraising trailer, and consider making a contribution to the filmmakers' documentary crowdfunding campaign on Seed&Spark at https://bit.ly/oraclefilm.

29/03/2023

Michael Hedges was an amazing guitarist on the Windham Hill record label in the 1980s and 90s who changed the acoustic guitar forever. He died in a car accident in 1997, but his music lives on - and now there’s a documentary film being made about him. Directed by his son and brother, the film will tell the story of his life and music, and share the stories of musicians inspired by him. They’ve just launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund production!

Will you join us in making a contribution?
Follow & support this film: https://bit.ly/oraclefilm

24/03/2023

Join us for Cyril Lani Pahinui's 16th Annual Waimānalo Kanikapila at Waimānalo Beach Park on April 22nd, 2023 from 9am to 6pm! The event is FREE to the public and is supported by sales of t-shirts. Get yours at www.CyrilPahinui.com.

If you can't come to the show, you can enjoy it all from the comfort of your couch with the Facebook and YouTube live stream!

13/01/2023

Can't make it to the Southern California Slack Key Festival this Sunday? Don't worry! You can stream the full festival from the comfort of your home.

Get your livestream passes NOW at: https://bit.ly/SlackKeyFestLivestream

09/01/2023

Join us this Sunday at the biggest Hawaiian music event on the mainland! We'll see you at Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center for the 16th Annual Southern California Slack Key Festival featuring Dancing Cat's George Kuo + many more talented slack key artists!

Tickets and additional information available at www.slackkeyfest.com

06/12/2022

Congratulations to George Kahumoku Jr for winning Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Artists’ 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award!

02/11/2022

Cyril Pahinui's Seattle Slack Key Festival returns to Seattle's Town Hall Theater on November 13th! Please join us for a Sunday filled with ALOHA and festivities! This year's event features food, crafts, hula, music, Slack Key and Ukulele Workshops, and a VIP Afterparty where you can Meet the Artists!

Get your tickets & view the full lineup: https://seattleslackkeyfestival.com/

11/04/2022

Get on your Hawaiian music vibes!
April 23, 2022 from 8am to Pau
for the 15th Annual Waimanalo Kanikapila....live streaming from Waimanalo Beach.
Here https://www.youtube.com/user/cyrilpahinui
or at Cyril Lani Pahinui

The 15th annual Waimānalo Kanikapila continues Cyril Pahinui’s legacy honoring his beloved father and celebrating the musical heritage of Waimānalo.

Performances include 8 hours of entertainment broadcast live from Waimanalo Beach, presentation of the annual Skylark Award, and a How Da Stew cooking segment. Viewing is FREE and is instead supported by T-shirt sales and donations.

Due to lingering Governor's COVID restrictions on open park activities the 2022 Waimānalo Kanikapila will be presented as a full concert live-stream only event presented by the Na‘alehu Theatre, the non-profit organization that has presented the gathering since 2008. For more information, please visit: https://www.naalehutheatre.org

02/03/2022

For March we celebrate with the spotlight on one of Hawaii’s musical trailblazers, CINDY COMBS. Enjoy “Sunny Rain” from the album of the same name available at Valley Entertainment.
"In rendering those tunes that have no lyrics, I feel lyrics are implied…the tunes are talking to me about places and people I know and love, and times in my life that bring cherished memories." - Cindy Combs

"Sunny Rain" by Cindy Combs. A song written and perfomed by Cindy Combs. Video was shot at Don Quixote's on 08-11-10. To learn more about Cindy Combs, visit ...

02/02/2022

February in Maui? Sounds like a plan. Check out Dancing Cat Records artist George Kahumoku Jr presents: Masters of Hawaiian Music every Wed and Sat evening at The Napili Kai Beach Resort's Aloha Pavilion in Lahaina. Get tickets in the link!

https://www.slackkeyshow.com/show-schedule/

Show Schedule Nathan Aweau, George Kahumoku, Jr. & Show OhanaWed Feb 02, 2022 06:30 PMBuy TicketGeorge Kahumoku, Jr. & The Slack Key Show OhanaSat Feb 05, 2022 06:30 PMBuy TicketHerb Ohta Jr., George Kahumoku & Show OhanaWed Feb 09, 2022 06:30 PMBuy TicketSean Na'auao, George Kahumoku, Jr. & Show Oh...

11/01/2022

Are you feeling the winter chill? The sounds of Hawaii are heading to a mainland U.S. city near you! JAN 14 - JAN 30 and March 17 - April 3. Three masters, featured regularly at Maui's renowned share Hawaii's unique folk styles, with origins in the early 19th century Hawaiian paniolo (cowboy) culture. George Kahumoku Jr., Led Kaapana and Herb Ohta Jr. Get tickets at this link https://bit.ly/3HTgkfe
Visit the DCR store https://bit.ly/3FfMPCP

05/01/2022

Let the sounds of Hawaii take you away! This is Cyril Pahinui from his album NIGHT MOON. Check out all the wonderful Dancing Cat Records music available at Valley Entertainment in the Hawaiin Slack Guitar Masters Series. Link here https://bit.ly/3zha51U

03/11/2021

This month we celebrate George Kuo and his birthday coming up on November 17th! His beautiful slack key guitar style dates back a generation or two earlier. "I feel a lot of appreciation for the old style of slack key and the lifestyle of my grandparents, granduncles, grandaunts and all the older players. There's a special aloha for them that I try to convey in my style of slack key." Album available at https://amzn.to/3wdgnxM

28/09/2021

This week in September, 2000, Hawaiian Slack Key Christmas was released on 🎶
Listen here https://fanlink.to/cu4m

27/09/2021

On this day 9/27/1994, Ledward Kaapana released Led Live Solo 🎶

Have a listen here https://fanlink.to/cuUd

17/09/2021

On this day 9/17/1996, Ki Ho’alu Christmas: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar was released
Listen here https://fanlink.to/cu4n