Last night the 31st Na Hoku Hanohano awards show took place at the Hawai’i Convention Center. The biggest winner was 33 year old self-taught musician Hoku Zuttermeister. Napua Greig won for female vocalist of the year for her debut album “Pihana. The awards program will be rebroadcast at 5:30PM and 10:30PM on Saturday June 21st [...]

This week John Berger reviews the new release from the winners of the 2007 Ka Himeni Ana singing contest, Manoa Voices. He also reviews the third release from Herb Ohta Jr and Daniel Ho entitled 2 To Three Feet: ‘Ukuleles in Paradise 3.

This week John Berger from the Honolulu Star Bulletin reviews a new album release by Dani Girl (Waring) entitled It’s About Time, and a fund raiser project for ‘Iolani School called Live at the ‘Iolani School Fair Vol. 1 in his Island Mele column.

Finding Hawaiian Music Online is becoming easier and easier. You can now listen to territorial stations like KINE and KAPA even when you aren’t in the islands. These two stations now offer online streams of their broadcasts. If you’re on the mainland longing for home then fire up one of these streams and you’ll feel like your back in the islands.