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 ALOHA!
NEW RELEASE! Cindy Combs has a new
release on Dancing Cat Records entitled "SUNNY RAIN'.
A wonderful blend of traditional and comtemporary Hawaiian
Slack Key Guitar solos, it will be available everywhere
on August 7, 2007.
See
Cindy On MySpace
Hawaiian Slack
Key Guitar is a unique and beautiful style of music sending
a message of aloha on the winds of the world. One of the
world’s finest players is Hawaii’s Cindy Combs.
Her style is innovative and unique and influenced by her
early exposure to Hawaiian music and from a few lessons
with Keola Beamer in 1971. www.kbeamer.com
A gifted composer and vocal stylist as well as guitarist,
Cindy is now enjoying the 35th year of her musical career
and the music just keeps getting sweeter! For more on
Cindy and Hawaiian Slack key Guitar check out www.dancingcat.com/artists/Cindy_Combs.php
& www.dancingcat.com/about-hawaiian.php
 Her
two solo efforts, “Land of the Endless Summer”
(produced by Berry Andelin) now on her own label Moonrise
Music, and “Slack Key Lady” (produced by George
Winston www.georgewinston.com
) on Dancing Cat Records www.dancingcat.com/recordings/08022-38041-2.php
exemplify Cindy’s talent at both the instrumental
execution as well as the vocal presentation of each particular
genre she chooses to present. Traditional Hawaiian music
meets with contemporary composition and jazz styling to
create a sound all her own.
Cindy’s
guitar artistry and compositional prowess is featured
along with Ken Emerson www.kenemerson.com
on his recent release “Ken Emerson and Friends;
Hawaiian Tangos, Hulas, and Blues” on the Cord International
/ Hana Ola Records label. www.cordinternational.com/ken_emerson.htm
Ken and Cindy cover her instrumental composition “Ka
Mele Nahenahe O Ke Kai” in a sweet blending of slack
key and steel guitar. The tune was also released on the
Hawaii Music Awards ‘Compilation of the Year 2003’
CD entitled “A Place Called Hawaii” www.cordinternational.com/a_place_called_hawaii.htm
produced by Aloha Joe www.alohajoe.com
and Michael Cord and is also on the Cord International
/ Hana Ola Records label.
Combs’
vocal talent was recently demonstrated on a backing vocal
performance with Norman Kaawa Solomon doing Cindy’s
Na Hoku Hanohano Awards ‘Song of the Year’
nominee, “I Love Kauai”. Originally recorded
on Jerry Santos’ 1990 Hoku winning ‘Album
of the Year’ “Expecting Friends” (Better
Days Records www.olomanamusic.com
), the song reappears on the recently released “Na
Mele O Kauai; The Best Songs of Kauai Volume 1”
produced by John Scott and Allan Thomas on the Songs of
the Islands label. www.songsoftheislandsmusic.com
Cindy recently
opened for Rickie Lee Jones at the Kauai Community College
Performing Arts Center with an ecclectic set of music
performed by Combs on piano and guitar accompanied by
Pancho Graham on bass, Phil Watts on sax. The set featured
the debut of Jessi Jardin’s hula choreography to
Combs’ composition “Moonlight.” lead
by Jessi with members of her hula school called Ha’awi
Hemolele ‘O Ke’akawaiola. www.kaimi.org/kauai.htm
Cindy is a
featured artist in the “Talk Story Series”
presented by KKCR Community Radio, Kauai’s community
radio station. It is an hour long CD of Cindy telling
stories of her experiences over the years coupled with
some previously unpublished music. Check it out at www.kkcr.org/news/talk_fund.html
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New projects
are in the works so thanks for visiting this site and
please return for updates!
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