Jazz Maui’s 2018 East Meets West Festival will kick off a series of concerts Friday at the new King Kekaulike Performing Arts Center with a “Best of Blue Note Tribute” featuring the Mike Lewis & Friends Quartet with award-winning jazz and R&B vocalist Ginai. Lewis and Ginai are ...

Heading to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Sunday for the annual slack key guitar festival, Makana recently attended the South by Southwest conference/festival in Austin, Texas, where he performed an official showcase and took time to attend a bunch of strategic lectures and panels about ...

A phenomenally talented ukulele virtuoso, Taimane has developed a flamenco-inspired strumming technique that is breathtaking. In concert, her hands often blur in motion as she passionately strums while dancing around the stage. It’s an intoxicating experience both visually and aurally that ...

There’s a moment early on in Michael Franti’s brilliant new documentary, “Stay Human,” where he ponders the struggle we often face between feeling pessimistic about life and maintaining hope in our divisive, conflicted world. “How do we thwart cynicism and encourage optimism?” he ...

In between recording and touring with Neil Young as a member of Promise of the Real, the Particle Kid, aka Micah Nelson, spends his time outside the mainstream of rock, creating innovative hybrid music which is often both edgy and sweet, experimental and familiar. On a creative roll beginning ...

When flooding recently hit Kauai, triggering the escape of a buffalo herd, Malani Bilyeu of Kalapana fame spent a couple of weeks helping round them up. Living on Kauai for around 27 years, Bilyeu has divided his time in recent years between music and ranching. “I work at a ranch by the ...