Hawaiian Guitarist Makana Sued for Breach of Contract

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Courthouse News Service has this story. Excerpt:

The Hawaiian guitarist Makana breached contract by refusing to work “when planet Mercury is in retrograde … approximately six months per year,” his former manager claims in court.

Tom Bunch dba TAB Management sued Matthew Swalinkavich aka Makana in Harris County Court (Texas). …

Bunch says he worked hard for his client. He claims he got producers of the George Clooney movie “The Descendants” to license three of his songs, resolved a dispute between Swalinkavich and a Japanese band, got his songs on iTunes and Amazon, and tried to set up a European tour for him.

But Swalinkavich was eccentric from the start, Bunch says. …

Bunch claims that Swalinkavich gave him fits by taking business advice “from his astrologer, friends and people he met at bars,” and disappearing when he was supposed to be completing a song. …

A request for comment from Swalinkavich was not returned.  …

Photo: Makana in Civil Beat newsroom, 2011. (Civil Beat)

—Chad Blair

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