MAUI, Hawaii – Clipped into hair and strung into leis, fresh plumerias fill the banquet hall with a sweet scent. Soon, the dim stage lights brighten and the audience quiets. A group of 10 or so ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The stage at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center is set for the 2024 Queen Liliuokalani Keiki Hula Competition and Festival running this Thursday through Saturday. More than 500 of ...

A new hula competition is taking center stage in Hawaiʻi — one that’s all about the students. The ʻAʻa I Ka Hula Competition was created to give haumāna (students) from DOE, private, and charter ...

HILO, Hawaiʻi (Island News) -- Hula Hālau ʻO Kamuela was named the overall winner of the 2025 Merrie Monarch Festival. This hālau, under the leadership of Kunewa Mook and Kauʻionālani Kamanaʻo, was ...

Maui Iokepa-Purdy won Mr. Hulu Maui in the 2024 Kū Mai Ka Hula contest. The 18th annual Kū Mai Ka Hula will be Friday and Saturday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Courtesy photo Maui’s adult hula ...

The 23rd Hula O Na Keiki, Maui’s only children’s hula competition, is set for Nov. 8-10 at Ka’anapali Beach Hotel. Tickets are available at Ka’anapali Beach Hotel’s Ohana Fun Center, 667-0129. Prices ...

Thirteen-year-old Kekoa Arucan performs a playful opening hula of the George Na’ope Hula Festival, set to a song originally composed for the opening of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, on Friday.

Jun. 23—The stage is up at Edith Kanaka 'ole Multi-Purpose Stadium, and the halau are in Hilo for their isolation period as they prepare for the esteemed Merrie Monarch competition. The hula ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Thousands of hula lovers will flock to Hilo this week for the 60th annual Merrie Monarch Festival. Millions more will watch online. It’s the hula world’s biggest stage — but ...

The 61st Annual Merrie Monarch Festival hula competition wrapped up Saturday evening at Edith Kanaka‘ole Multi-Purpose Stadium in Hilo with group hula ‘auana (modern hula) performances. The halau ...

To the observer, dancing the hula looks easy. After all, it’s just shaking your hips, right? For the members of Longview’s Halau, Na Anuenue Uia Lokelina (The Beautiful Rainbows of Roselina), the ...

Youngsters skipped, jumped and whirled with ease in their hoops of many colors at Clapp Park this morning, but their watching parents must have felt a little old when the children failed time and ...