Every few songs it would happen: The ukulele launched into a furious strum, the bass began to gallop, the guitar jangled to life, and the three powerful voices behind those instruments erupted into a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Behind the sounds of Hawaiian music stand a rich history that’s being explored by a Hawaii nonprofit. Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings celebrates the role and the ...

Steel guitar music started on the island of Oahu — and teachers there are working with the next generation of students to continue the tradition. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Quincy Cortez ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A celebration of all things ukulele is happening today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kapiolani Park Bandstand. Oaokaena Kirkland, Director of Hawaiian Culture and Arts for Kala ...

Demand for Hawaiian music grew rapidly, and by the 1920s, virtuoso performers like Sol Ho’opi’i were incorporating these techniques into different popular jazz and blues forms. Two of America’s ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Music just doesn’t serve as entertainment — it serves as a means of archiving as well, archiving the voices of old and the stories of their time. One of the largest known ...

Raiatea Helm is a multi-Na Hoku Hanohano award-winning singer and the foremost female Hawaiian falsetto vocalist of her generation. “We had a list of 15 to 17 songs for the album, and then we decided ...

Six-time Grammy Award-winner and Honolulu native Daniel Ho is best known for his performances on ukulele, slack key guitar, piano, and vocals. Now based in Los Angeles, his multifaceted career ...

Solo artists Robert Cazimero and Kuana Torres Kahele became a duo after the pandemic hit. You can hear them Oct. 9 in Edmonds. Robert Cazimero and Kuana Torres Kahele are solo artists, but COVID-19 ...

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is replacing musical instruments stolen from a school that many Native Hawaiian children attend. OHA officials visited Stevenson Middle School Thursday to present a ...

Ledward Kaapana has been playing music for 50 years. On Thursday, we told you the local musician was asked by a security guard to stop playing at Honolulu International Airport. The law says people at ...