Music

Hip-hop has been a platform for oppressed and marginalized communities, especially Black Americans. Now, Filipinos have taken the genre to tell their stories in the diaspora. HPR’s Cassie Ordonio has more.

A local festival spotlighting Filipino culture wraps up this weekend with the winner of NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest as its headliner.

Chinatown musicians spoke to HPR's Maddie Bender about the local band scene and looking for practice spaces.

Honolulu Councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, who represents the new downtown financial district and Chinatown, discusses concerns about pushing the negative elements further into Chinatown as a result of creating the Downtown Honolulu Business Improvement District; Chu Lan Schubert-Kwock takes HPR on a walking tour of Chinatown

Three of the minds behind the Symphony of the Hawaiʻi Seas, Takuma Itoh, Beth Lenz, and Kalilinoe Detwiler, spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the free musical and visual performance showcasing Hawaiʻi’s oceans later this month.

The Hawai‘i Youth Symphony has performed a music score for a short film about Micronesian kids in Kalihi, which will premiere at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival this month. The recordings were done at HPR's Atherton Performing Arts Studio.

Artist and musician Benjamin Fairfield spoke to HPR’s Maddie Bender about his new book, “Kani Ka ʻŌpala: How Can Garbage Sing?"

Today on the program, we're revisiting a few of our interviews with accomplished and creative harpists.

Musician Ash Bu spoke to HPR's Maddie Bender about her feature on the nationally syndicated classic radio program "From the Top."

Legal experts discuss how specialty courts have shaped Hawaiʻi's judicial system; A Hawaiʻi guitarist showcases her unique sound on the national classical program "From the Top"