Music
Finger magic
Guitar heaven descends on the rRed Elephant Café this weekend when three of Hawai‘i’s best guitarists join in what promises to be an amazing concert. The players are Makana, Stephen Inglis and Michael Tanenbaum—and anyone who’s heard them knows they’re like the three tenors of guitar. They have played together often in various duet combinations, and after many requests they decided to go for the ultimate trio.
Makana is certainly best known of the group. A protégé of Sonny Chillingworth, Makana has grown into a fiendishly good slack key player. Inglis was guitarist for Palolo Jones, then went solo and moved to the Bay Area. He returned to O‘ahu recently, having transformed his excellent rocker chops into slack-key/fingerstyle technique. Tanenbaum is definitely of the fingerstyle school, weaving a delicate fabric of notes reminiscent of the late Michael Hedges.
Though both Makana and Inglis sing, 90 percent of the show will be guitar only. Each player will do a bit of solo work, duet combinations will shift about and all three will team up for a few numbers—what they’re calling a fret-a-fret. rRed Elephant is a dedicated listening environment built with acoustics in mind, so the sound will be superb. It doubles as a recording studio, and these concerts will indeed be taped for broadcast, but you’ll have to go to Japan to hear it.
Live @ rRed Elephant, 1144 Bethel St., Sat. 5/27, 7:30pm, $22.50, 545-2468, [www.honoluluboxoffice.com], 550-8457
