The Green were the first local reggae group to reach any of Billboard’s mainstream charts. They will perform June 14 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Courtesy photo Kicking off their four-island ...

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 ...

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 ...