Sweet Hollywaiians are based in Osaka, Japan.They were originally street musicians who share a common passion of Hawaiian,Swing,Ragtime,Blues,Calypso and Italian for the 1920s-1930s string band tradition in collecting the music of long forgotten legends like Sol Hoopii,King Bennie Nawahi,Roy Smeck and Eddie Lang.
This string quartet containing a dozen of string instruments like a Hawaiian steel guitar, banjo, tipple, ukulele, mandolin, a bass and guitars. Most of the members are multi-instrumentalist and they change their instruments song by song.
Since they founded their band in 2000, so far they have released four Albums,"Ticklin' The Strings","Hula Girl","'O Surdato 'nnammurato","Maile Swing". And they have gone to many over sea live performances and earn the great reputations from the audiences in the U.S.A, Canada, France, Belgium, Netherlands and of course Japan.
When you listen to their sound,you will be really very impressed by their level of musicianship, clever arrangements and feel for playing the '20s,'30s music.These guys are terrific!!
