Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

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, ...

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 ...

Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each ...

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: ...

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

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 ...

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 ...