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Chinese New Year Festival Kicks off Feb. 1

On Feb. 1, Central Maui will come alive with excitement as the 23rd annual Chinese New Year Festival kicks off at the Maui Mall Village to celebrate the Year of the Snake. Cathy Yago, an advisor, news release and script writer for the festival, said the event started in 1999 on Market ...

Nurse John debuts his sold out Short Staffed show at the MACC

“I’m so happy that I can make people happy every single night,” Nurse John announced about his national “Short Staffed Tour” in a December podcast. Heading to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Jan. 26, John Dela Cruz, aka Nurse John, is in the midst of a major North America ...

Faith Ako, Tarvin Makia team for a special Kula concert

Acclaimed Hawaiian musician Faith Ako collaborated with Maui’s Tarvin Makia on “Ho’okanikapila, Mau’i” in late 2024 for her latest recording project. A collection of jazz standards with a few originals, the duo had fun injecting new life into classics like “Autumn Leaves,” “Fly ...

Dazzling update on a Sherlock Holmes murder mystery will delight audiences

Set in the English rural county of Dorset, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel “The Hound of the Baskervilles” starred Sherlock Holms and Dr. Watson solving a murder that took place amid the legend of a cursed, spectral hound. Doyle’s third Holms crime mystery, it was published in 1902. ...

Maui Onstage celebrates Stephen Sondheim with Jan. 25 fundraiser

A fundraiser for Maui OnStage, “Saturday with Sondheim,” will pay tribute to legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim with a musical journey through some of his most popular works. A cast of some of Maui’s most talented performers will regale the audience with Sondheim hits as ...

Virtuoso guitarist Muriel Anderson makes her Maui debut Jan. 17

Acclaimed by Guitar Player Magazine as one of the top 50 acoustic guitarists of all time, Muriel Anderson was playing in a Chicago hotel some years ago when Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page walked in. “He was staying in the hotel where I was playing in the lobby,” Anderson recalls. “He heard ...