Palm Records is a multi-award winning record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 based in Kamuela on the Big Island of Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

. It is known for its acoustic guitar trio Kohala

Kohala

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, its catalog of slack key guitar recordings, and as the first recipient of the Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

for Best Hawaiian Music Album: "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2", Producer, Charles Michael Brotman (2005). Grammy Award winner Brotman is Palm Records' producer and all recording is done at Brotman's Lava Tracks Recording Studio, the home of Palm Records, located in the heart of paniolo country where the slack key guitar style originated.

Roster

• Kohala
• Charles Michael Brotman
• John Keawe
• Sonny Lim
• John Cruz
• Charlie Recaido
• Randy Lorenzo
• Ken Emerson
• Bryan Kesler
• Jeff Peterson
• Keoki Kahumoku
• David Tamaoka
• Rupert Tripp, Jr.

External links

• Palm Records
• http://www.facebook.com/PalmRecords