Like Akaka, Cortez started playing ukulele at 8 and inherited a ... steel guitar were outselling every other music genre in the nation. Hawaiian music started cropping up in Hollywood soundtracks ...

In 1916, Hawaiian records outsold all other genres, while ukuleles were so ubiquitous in college dorms and upper-crust nightclubs that the New York Tribune ran a full-page illustration of an ...

The evening concerts under the stars feature ukulele music across many genres from traditional Hawaiian to jazz, rock, and orchestral arrangements. Amateur ukulele players can show off their ...