His dissertation “Pewa: I Ola ke Mele Hawaiʻi i kona Mele ʻia” (“Pewa: The Life of Hawaiian Music in Its Song”) braids ...

Play some Hawaiian music and soon the sounds of aloha float by on a gentle tradewind. You smell the perfume of plumeria in the air and hear the whispering of palm trees. Perhaps its soothing, relaxing ...

Celebrate Hawaii: The 17th Annual Southern California Slack Key Festival is a start-the-year musical tradition, one that will bring the beauty of Hawaiian music, and the timeless ki ho'alu guitar, to ...

Celebrate the holidays with King’s Hawaiian’s 75th anniversary twist on Bing Crosby’s classic ’Mele Kalikimaka,’ featuring an ...

With its breezy island rhythm and welcoming aloha spirit, Hawaii has a way of bringing people together through song and dance ...

Each year, the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts presents the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards to honor new artists, albums, singles ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Seattle Center Festál: Live Aloha Hawaiian Cultural Festival, taking place ...

Hawaiian music legend Keola Beamer will team up with Henry Kapono for the Artist 2 Artist series March 27 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Photo courtesy Mustafa Bilal Continuing his Artist 2 ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...

Maui-born musician Anthony Pfluke, who plays a mix of Hawaiian, contemporary and reggae-influenced songs, pays homage to the sacred places of his home island in his next album project, “Singing to the ...

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: ...