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: ...
A true Polynesian performance creates a connection between dancers and audience members. So say members of Mana Polynesia, a traditional and contemporary South Pacific dance and musical ensemble on ...
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 ...
Each year, the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts presents the Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards to honor new artists, albums, singles ...
George Brooks Veikoso, widely known by his stage name Fiji, has passed away at the age of 55. The news of his untimely demise was confirmed on July 23, 2025, by Polynesian Music via social media, ...