Multi Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winning musician Nathan Aweau performs solo at George Kahumoku, Jr.’s Slack Key Show. Courtesy photo One of Hawaii’s most accomplished musicians, Nathan Aweau, began ...
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaiian music entertainers around Hawaii are mourning the loss of a beloved figure of the community. Keli Viernes was known to many as ‘Gobbles’. She spent many years ...
When you picture Hawaii what comes to mind? For me, it was busy beaches and towering resorts. Then I visited Kauai, the ...
KAILUA, Hawaii – Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each pull from the metal rings – wearable guitar picks – adorning ...
Raiatea Helm will sing songs from her acclaimed album “A Legacy Of Hawaiian Song & String Volume One” with the Pops Orchestra. Courtesy photo For her upcoming “Nā Mele o Hawai’i” concert with the Maui ...
Considering that his father’s band performed immediately before Jimi Hendrix took the stage at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969, it’s not surprising Brian Witkin grew up dreaming of becoming a ...
When Alan Akaka was growing up, a young musician in his teens and 20s in Honolulu, he played steel guitar with some of the top names in Hawaiian music. When they spoke, he listened: Genoa Keawe: ...
The ukulele, with its relatively tiny size and four strings, could be thought of as a simple instrument, but it has a rich history within the Hawaiian islands. And native Hawaiian Jake Shimabukuro ...
— -- Anuhea Jenkins has made a name for herself as an island reggae singer, but she says her career could have taken a completely different direction. When she was growing up, the Hawaii native ...
Two decades of research into his family's place in Hawaiian history inspired a Michigan Tech professor of music to create the tone poem "Kalaupapa" — his first musical composition. Researchers often ...