"His transfixingly agile slack-key technique and genre-crossing music have relit a fire for live music in Waikīkī." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Makana provided a textbook illustration of slack-key style"… "dazzling." - NY Times
"Slack key guitar music, indigenous to Hawai'i, has been around longer than the blues, and Makana is considered the greatest living player." - Esquire Magazine