Last year’s well-deserved Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Island Music Album shone a spotlight on Halemanu, one of Maui’s talented musicians. Describing his music as “jazz infused rock & roll with Hawaiian soul,” Halemanu produced the winning “So the Story Goes,” which featured a ...
The seeds for a future Maui version of Farm Aid were planted on Saturday at the Mahi‘ai Music and Food Festival held at Maui Country Club in Spreckelsville. Opening with his classic “Whisky River,” country icon Willie Nelson headlined the sold-out fundraising event which featured an ...
In the past we’ve heard Hawaii’s ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro play a few Beatle tunes in concert, and now we have an opportunity to see a band which entirely focuses on Beatles’ songs all played on ukulele when Beat-Lele performs in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s McCoy Studio ...
An enchanting new CD called “Himalayan Sessions” compiles contemplative compositions by the late world-renowned flutist Paul Horn, Hawaiian music icon Keola Beamer and Grammy-nominated musician Christopher Hedge, with selected inspirational words by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai ...
It was the autumn of 1965 and Paul Simon was staying in Brentwood, a small town outside of London. He had fallen in love with a local woman, who he put on the cover of his first solo album, “The Paul Simon Songbook,” and immortalized in “Kathy’s Song,” where he sang about, “. . . ...
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