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, ...

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, ...

Artist and musician Benjamin Fairfield spoke to HPR’s Maddie Bender about his new book, “Kani Ka ʻŌpala: How Can Garbage Sing ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - These aren’t ordinary string instruments. New instruments that were recently brought to Hawaii are made of fiber from flax plants. Belgium-based luthier Tim Duerinck ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Music just doesn’t serve as entertainment — it serves as a means of archiving as well, archiving the voices of old and the stories of their time. One of the largest known ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – Kohala based family, the Lim’s are honoring Hawaiian history and their home town with music, recognized by many across the state. Grew up in the Kohala area on the island of Hawaii, ...

Musician Eddie Kamae, credited as a pioneer of the resurgence of Hawaiian music, died Saturday on Oahu at age 89. A singer, arranger, composer and film producer, Kamae rose to prominence in 1948 as a ...

Aaron Mahi — musician, composer, conductor, recording artist, kahu and bandmaster of the Royal Hawaiian Band for 24 years — died Saturday just days before his birthday. He was 70 years old and had ...