Slack key guitar virtuoso Makana is en route to Washington D.C. this evening to perform at a holiday reception hosted by the First Family at the White House tomorrow, press agent Scott Foster of Scott Foster & Associates said late this afternoon.

“He just called me and he doesn’t know all the details yet,” Foster said. “It was out of the blue.”
Foster said the 800 invited guests include friends, diplomats, and White House staff.
This is Makana's third visit to the East Coast and his second to Washington D.C. in 2009. His April 3, 2009, concert in New York's Sage Theater garnered a rave review in the New York Times.
This latest honor comes on the heels of Makana's two-month engagement at Waikiki's Royal Hawaiian Hotel reopening the legendary Monarch Room, which inaugurated the hotel's new “Curators of Hawaiian Music” series.
Makana's recently-released CD, “Venus, and the Sky Turns to Clay: The Instrumental World of Makana” celebrates his 20th anniversary as a slack key artist and is his first all-instrumental, all-original solo guitar collection.
Foster said other entertainers will be performing, but he didn’t know who at this time.
“I bet it will be an interesting list,” he said.