Upcoming Performance
Jim Kimo West
We are pleased to announce that our friend Jim Kimo West recently received a Grammy nomination for his album Moku Maluhia: Peaceful Island - and that he is coming to the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts for a solo performance. West is recognized as one of the world's top slack key guitarists bringing his own unique musical perspective to this great acoustic guitar tradition.
Jim Kimo West's Grammy-nominated album
Moku Maluhia - Peaceful Island
Grammy - nominated Hawaiian “slack key” guitarist Jim “Kimo” West was recently one of four featured guitarists on the 20th Anniversary International Guitar Night Tour of North America. His music has garnered over 75 million streams over the years on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming sites.
He is a 2019 Grammy nominee for his recent CD, “Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island”, a 2008 winner of the Hawaii Music Awards and four-time Na Hoku Hanohano (the Hawaiian ‘Grammy’) nominee. He is also a two-time winner of the LA Treasures Award for his efforts in keeping this important acoustic guitar tradition alive. For his work with “Weird Al”, he has earned four Grammy’s and a Billboard #1 CD debut for 2015’s “Mandatory Fun”.
Jim Kimo West with "Weird Al" Yankovic and band
He is a veteran of Hawaii’s famed slack key festivals as well as the So Cal Slack Key Festival every year from 2008 through 2018. He has shared the stage with almost all the world’s top slack key players at one time or another.
His numerous CDs feature many original compositions as well as inventive arrangements of the genre's classic repertoire. His seventh CD, “Guitar Stories” goes beyond slack key, exploring other genres like West African guitar, Middle Eastern Music and Americana. “Slackers In Paradise” features duets with slack and steel guitar legend, Ken Emerson, and his latest CD, “Moku Maluhia-Peaceful Island” is a mix of “nahenahe” or very relaxing original compositions.
Kimo has also worked as a composer for film and TV for many years and maintains a sophisticated private studio in Los Angeles. He has composed music for features films, network TV shows and specials and cable shows. His slack key compositions have been used in a number of features, TV spots, cable, web and in many documentaries.
View additional information at:
https://jimkimowest.com/
View and purchase CDs by Jim "Kimo" West:
https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Kimo-West/e/B000BCJ3KA
View videos by Jim "Kimo" West:
https://tinyurl.com/yd5qt6sg
Ojai native and resident Maryann Cord, Co-Founder & CEO of Cord International Media Group is producing and promoting the concert for Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts cultural programming. Cord International's Hana Ola Records is known as the first name in vintage Hawaiian music, a music recording and licensing company passionately dedicated to preserving, restoring and releasing lost real Hawaiian music, with a huge catalog of recordings.
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