HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kawika Pangelinan is fascinated by the haunting sound of the Hawaiian nose flute. “It’s a very gentle sound,” he said. ”It catches people’s ear. It’s not something that they ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

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 State Department of Accounting and General Services hosted a free, sold out concert using vintage instruments meant to transport the audience to the sounds of the 1800s - the century in which all ...

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 his right thumb, ...

On Friday, around 12:41 a.m., officers responded to a vehicle crash in front of Wendy’s in Wahiawa. Kimo Alameda, who's been in office for just over a year, highlighted accomplishments that he says ...

Celebrate Onipaʻa month with a sold-out Hawaiian music event featuring rare monarchy-era instruments. Watch Kekoa, Isaac Woodward, and Lina Girl perform Queen Liliʻuokalani’s song By and By, Hoʻi Mai ...

The Kohala Girls in 1935. Letritia Kandle is seated (second left) with a national resonator guitar. Letritia Kandle and Paul Whiteman standing next to the grand letar at the Chicago Drake Hotel in ...