Before the television cameras go on tonight at the 47th annual Grammy Awards, trophies will be handed out to all the artists who didn’t quite achieve the glitz quotient required for prime time. Seated ...

Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings — wearable guitar picks — adorning his right thumb, ...

Musician Eddie Kamae, who died Saturday at age 89, spent time on Maui visiting family and met his wife, Myrna, in West Maui in 1965. Hawaiian Legacy Foundation photo Honolulu-born musician Eddie Kamae ...

“As in the past when times were wrong, the common folks come together in song … They can’t take away our music.” — Eric Burdon and War from the 1970 single “They Can’t Take Away Our Music” With ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...