Memories

Newspaper Articles:

• Honolulu Advertiser Sunday Aug. 18, 2002 Guitarists Gathering For Festival by Wayne Harada (Danny’s Note: The quote in this article attributed to Ron Loo was actually made by Milton Lau.)

• Honolulu Star Bulletin Aug. 18, 2002 Gabby Lives on at Sensational Slack Key Festival by Cheryl Tsutsumi.

• Honolulu Star Bulletin December 14, 2004 Classics From the Top by Gary C.W. Chun.

• From the Top Website Article and Music Performances by Danny online

• Midweek Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Boy With The Jaw-dropping Talent by Jade Moon

Danny’s clarification: As stated in this article, I had learned 80 songs by the time I had been
playing for about a year, but the songs I learned weren’t polished. I went to Uncle Ozzie after I
had been playing for about 4-5 months. At this point, I was playing about 12 songs, and was
pretty absorbed in Raymond Kane’s music. As Uncle Ozzie set me up and taught me more songs,
I continued to learn from recordings and video tapes of Led Ka‘apana and Raymond Kane, in
addition to my lessons.

• Honolulu Star Bulletin Friday, Aug 26, 2005 A Master Is Still Learning New Tricks by Gary C.W. Chun (Article about Danny’s teacher, Ozzie Kotani)

Letter of Recognition from Congressman Neil Abercrombie

Danny and Ozzie at the Maui Slack Key Festival

June, 2001

Danny with his guitar

built for him by his dad