Featuring music from the new movie The Descendants the festival honors one of the worldʼs great acoustic guitar traditions, “slack key” (ki hoʼalu) and features the most respected names in Hawaiian guitar music today, all recipients of numerous awards including Grammy Awards, Na Hoku HanoHano (Hawaiian Grammy) Awards, Criticʼs Choice and Peopleʼs Choice awards.  Click on the link to the left to listen to an interview with Director Alexander Payne as he joins KCRW’s Tom Schnabel to talk about the all-Hawaiian music soundtrack and other aspects of the new Academy Award-winning film starring George Clooney, based on the book by Kaui Hart Hemmings.  Mahalo (thank you) for your support over the years and see you at the Festival!