America’s interest in Hawaiian culture began during the last two decades of the 19th century and reached its peak during the ...

T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues ...

This article was originally published on October 8, 2025. In a small upstairs room of a Toledo church, Del Ray Grace is preserving a sacred piece of his Pentecostal upbringing. It isn’t an altar or a ...

“I subscribe to the book of Willie Nelson and Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark,” says Kapali Long, a Native Hawaiian musician who will perform Friday at Mulligans on the Blue. A self-described ...

Two decades after he’d been sickened enough to quit playing, Holden discovered he was a guitar hero. He picked up the guitar ...

Whether your tastes run to Brazilian pop, country, acoustic blues, classical jazz, or surf reggae, San Diego has a concert ...

Saxophonist Craig Roselieb performs with Little Big Band musicians. Courtesy photo Chicago-based saxophonist Craig Roselieb will return to Maui to head up shows in Lahaina and Kihei, including a New ...

Gaylord Rieta Sr., Hawaii-born musician and martial arts practitioner for more than a half-century, died Nov. 14 in Honolulu.

Almost 30,000 people attended the Fiji tribute concert Sept. 13 at the Tom Moffatt Waikiki Shell and in an enclosed area in Kapiolani Park. Thomas Pa‘a Sibbett, front left, and Jason Momoa posed for a ...

Walter Haynes, the prolific session musician who gained a reputation as “Patsy Cline’s steel guitar player,” died on this day (Jan 1.) in 2009. He was 80 years old and living in Bullard, Texas, ...

John Hughey, the session pedal steel guitarist who pioneered the distinct “crying steel” playing style, was born on this day in 1933 in Elaine, Arkansas. Hughey would have ample opportunities to show ...