HAWAII THEATRE CENTER

Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame presents

The Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame is proud to announce the 30th Annual KA HIMENI ANA Hawaiian music competition.. Come watch and listen to the beautiful sounds of this year's contestants as they perform in the traditional "nahenahe" style, each group with their own distinctive twist. In the past, Ka Himeni Ana has served as a proving ground for artists who went on become some of the most well-known names in contemporary Hawaiian music, including Holunape, Ho'okena, Pilioha, Ku'uuipo Kumaukahi, Kanialau and many others.

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Hapa Haole songs were the rage from the early 1920's through the late '50's. Pai Foundation's founder, Victoria Holt Takamine, notes: "My kumu, Maiki Aiu Lake, performed with Pua Almeida at the age of 14 at Club Pago Pago in a cellophane skirt performing hapa haole mele. As a student of Maiki, I also performed many songs from this genre of music and dance at Halekulani Hotel and at the Moana Hotel, where Maiki still performed as a solo dancer with Pua Almeida. Our Hapa Haole Festival is intended to celebrate this genre of Hawaiian music. Native Hawaiians who were never taught to speak their native tongue, whose language was stolen away from them, wrote some of these songs. Others were written by songwriters as far away as Tin Pan Alley in New York City who had never visited our islands but imagined and romanticized through their song writing."

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Hawaii Pops Concert Series presents

Join Matt Catingub and the Hawaii Pops Orchestra as they embark on their popular "Concert Series." This season features two of Hawaii’s most beloved performers, Amy Hanaiali`i & Willie K, in November; An Evening of Romance and Love Songs in February; and Smooth Jazz Superstar, Dave Koz, in April.

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