Where: Villa Montalvo
Saratoga
CA
95070
United States
San Francisco
What: Daniel Ho @ Villa Montalvo
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Featured regularly at Maui’s renowned Slack Key Show, this group melds together the uniquely Hawaiian styles of slack key guitar, ukulele, and songs, both traditional and new.
Known as Hawai‘i’s “Renaissance Man,” George Kahumoku Jr., is a master slack key guitarist, a four-time Grammy Award winner, and an accomplished songwriter. Using his very personal melodic style, inventiveness, and versatility, Kahumoku conveys the genuine spirit of Hawai‘i’ to all his listeners.
Daniel Ho is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and performer, with talent and versatility on ukulele, slack key guitar, piano, and vocals. He’s a six-time Grammy winner, with four of his Grammy credits as producer of George Kahumoku’s four Grammy-winning recordings. His two other Grammy wins were for performances with his close friend, Tia Carrere.
International star and two-time Grammy winner Tia Carrere’s credits include Wayne’s World, True Lies, Rising Sun, and Lilo & Stitch, and most recently, the live action remake of Lilo & Stitch. Tia has also starred in her own TV series Relic Hunter, and has appeared in Hawaii 5-0, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and AJ & the Queen. She starred with Jo Koy and Tiffany Haddish in the 2022 release of Universal/Amblin feature film Easter Sunday. Tia went double platinum with the Wayne’s World soundtrack, while her Warner Bros. album Dream became an international success. Tia returned to her Hawai‘i roots with multi-Grammy award-winning producer/artist Daniel Ho, receiving two Grammy Awards.
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CA
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Who: Daniel Ho
Adult Contemporary
‘Ukulele Magazine calls him “Hawaii’s Greatest Contemporary Musical Ambassador.” Daniel Ho is a multi-instrumentalist with six consecutive GRAMMY Awards and 14 GRAMMY nominations, number-one albums on national airplay charts, and top-ten albums on Billboard. His solo ‘ukulele CD, “Polani (Pure),” was the first ‘ukulele album in history to receive a GRAMMY nomination. On piano the following year, he received a Best Pop Instrumental Album nomination for “E Kahe Malie (Flowing Gently).” Daniel’s projects have ranged from an album of classical guitar & ‘ukulele duets with Pepe Romero (“Aloha España”), to the GRAMMY nominated album “On A Gentle Island Breeze” (Taiwanese aboriginal melodies set to Hawaiian instrumentation), to numerous albums of original pop, traditional & contemporary Hawaiian, classical, and instructional material for music composition and ‘ukulele.