Hawaiian island reggae meets country soul when Maoli brings his Island Vibe tour to Australia in March 2026. Following a sold ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...

Sunaina Keonaona Kale is putting reggae music in relation. Originally from Irvine, Kale is Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiian, and holds a doctorate in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara. The ...

A new documentary series is spotlighting the deep connection between reggae music and local culture in Hawai‘i. In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of Reggae in Hawai‘i is a three-part series from PBS ...

Singer-guitarist Walter Aipolani, better known as Bruddah Waltah, died Thursday after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 68. In a 40-year-plus career as one of Hawaii’s music superstars, a short ...

One of the most popular reggae bands to play in Hawaii, Rebelution returns at 6 p.m. Friday to Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s A&B Amphitheater in Kahului touring in support of its latest album, “Free ...

“Everything that I represent has to do with the culture and the lifestyle of Hawaii,” Glenn Awong says. “Bringing it out here is really easy for me. I’m just being me.” Awong is best known as Maoli, ...

Part 2: Jawaii steps into the late ’80s and early ’90s, a pivotal time when local musicians began to make reggae their own. They added slack key and ʻukulele. They sang about their own stories, making ...

Anchorage-based H3 has been playing in Southcentral Alaska for nearly two decades. The Hawaiian reggae band is named after a highway in Hawai’i and the three-part harmonies sung by the band's original ...

Award-winning Fijian-Hawaiian recording artist George Brooks Veikoso, better known to fans as Fiji, has died at the age of 55. Born in Fiji on May 10, 1970, Veikoso grew up singing in church. “The ...

“I knew him, but I didn’t really know him,” she said. “He was super low-key. He introduced himself as Walter Aipolani, and I didn’t know until a couple years later he was Bruddah Waltah. He would come ...

Tracing the popularity and evolution of reggae in Hawaiʻi, from roots to the Jawaiian era. In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of Reggae in Hawaiʻi traces the popularity and evolution of reggae in the ...