Celebrating Ledward Kaapana (born August 25, 1948), a Hawaiian musician from Kalapana, best known for playing in the slack key guitar style. He has received 4 Grammy Award nominations and is a recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship, which is the highest honor in folk and traditional arts in the United States.
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I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it.
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