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HPD Serves Up Aloha-tastic Lip Sync Challenge Video
By CATHERINE CRUZ • SEP 21, 2018 TweetShareGoogle+Email CREDIT TWITTER It may brighten your day if you take a few minutes and check out the Lip Sync Challenge started earlier this summer. Some say its the kinder gentler side of law enforcement–but hey–that’s okay. Honolulu’s finest jumped in this week, spreading a little aloha with some help from the Manao Brothers. Don Faumoina often is on … Continue reading HPD Serves Up Aloha-tastic Lip Sync Challenge Video
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Revolutionary Music Licensing Legislation Passes Unanimously
September 19, 20185:17 PM ET ANDREW FLANAGAN Twitter On Tuesday evening, the Music Modernization Act (renamed the Orrin G. Hatch Music Modernization Act at the 23rd hour — in honor of the retiring Utah politician who also happens himself to own a platinum record), was passed unanimously in the Senate, as it was earlier this year by the House. In an age where political and … Continue reading Revolutionary Music Licensing Legislation Passes Unanimously
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Carrie Underwood Earns Best Sales of the Year for a Woman with a No. 1 Album
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Travis Scott Joins the List of Musicians Paying Tribute to Mac Miller
IT’S THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF HEARTFELT SALUTES TO THE YOUNG RAPPER PATRICK HOSKEN 09/24/2018 Ever since Mac Miller’s tragic and untimely death at age 26 earlier this month, fellow musicians have paid tribute to the young rapper and producer with a slew of heartfelt messages. Some came via social mediashortly after the news broke. A whole host of Mac’s fans, meanwhile, assembled in … Continue reading Travis Scott Joins the List of Musicians Paying Tribute to Mac Miller
Is the Decline of Classical Music Precisely What It Needs?
Charlie Albright says new approaches to classical music are the route to its revival. Story highlights Charlie Albright: Classical musical audiences are waning; concerts have become too formal, stiff He says new venues, improvisation, conversation are bringing the fun back Charlie Albright is a classical pianist and recipient of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award. The opinions expressed in … Continue reading Is the Decline of Classical Music Precisely What It Needs?
The Importance of Making Creative Arts Part of the Curriculum
A plea from members of the National Association for the Teaching of Drama, and a reminder that artists can often be persuaded to visit schools for nothing Sun 1 Jul 2018 18.01 BSTLast modified on Sun 1 Jul 2018 18.05 BST Pupils warm up before a drama class at a Bournemouth school. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Andria Zafirakou and her Artists in Schools project are … Continue reading The Importance of Making Creative Arts Part of the Curriculum
Does Musical Training Determine Success?
What Makes “Real” Hawaiian Music?
By Ben Gutierrez – bio | email HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – It’s been just a few weeks since the Grammys announced it was dropping the Hawaiian Music category. And now, the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts is getting ready to celebrate, Hawaiian style, with it’s annual Na Hoku Hanohano awards. After that controversy, we decided to see if there’s any one definition of Hawaiian Music. Tia … Continue reading What Makes “Real” Hawaiian Music?
How Innovations in R&B Are Changing the Music Scene in Hawaii
SOURCEM SWIET PRODUCTIONS/ROBINOLIMB/GETTY Because there’s more to Hawaii than hula. By Nick Fouriezos THE DAILY DOSEJAN 26 2018 Travelers can get the quintessential Hawaiian experience at the House Without a Key restaurant in the Halekulani Hotel. Seemingly every evening, the sun sets redder than a postcard, and the wine is divine, as is the lau lau chicken. Meanwhile, uke-pickers croon out a rendition of “Over … Continue reading How Innovations in R&B Are Changing the Music Scene in Hawaii
5 Hawaiian Musicians That Need to be On Your Next Playlist
Young trio Keahou is an up-and-coming group to watch, after they swept 2017’s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. PHOTO BY MATTHEW HEIRAKUJI 5 young Hawaii musicians we know you’ll love These talented Hawaii artists need to be on your playlist. BY TIFFANY HILL OCT 10, 2017 Each decade brings forth a new crop of talented Hawaii musicians. In the 1970s, Gabby Pahinui, the Sons of Hawaii … Continue reading 5 Hawaiian Musicians That Need to be On Your Next Playlist
Big Names in EDM Encourage Fans to Hit the Polls
9/25/2018 by Kat Bein It’s National Voter Registration Day, and as the United States inches near a very important, swing-y Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 6), many electronic musicians are urging fans to make sure they can hit the polls. A lot of congressional and gubernatorial offices are up for grabs, and tensions between the Republicans and Democrats are high under the current administration. Each vote … Continue reading Big Names in EDM Encourage Fans to Hit the Polls
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