Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Behind the sounds of Hawaiian music stand a rich history that’s being explored by a Hawaii nonprofit. Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings celebrates the role and the ...

Quincy Cortez plucks at a slim black box laid across his legs, his fingers flashing silver. Steel strings twang with each ...

When Alan Akaka was growing up, a young musician in his teens and 20s in Honolulu, he played steel guitar with some of the top names in Hawaiian music. When they spoke, he listened: Genoa Keawe: ...