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<h3>✨ About</h3>
Blue Note Hawaii is a premier live music venue offering intimate shows with world-renowned musicians and local talent. Known for its versatile programming, the venue features jazz, reggae, rock, and traditional Hawaiian performances. The venue also offers a dining experience, combining great music with flavorful dishes and cocktails.
<h3>⭐ Review Summary</h3>
4.5 (240+ reviews analyzed) Visitors consistently praise the intimate atmosphere and high-quality musical performances. Many highlight the variety of genres and the opportunity to enjoy big-name artists in a smaller setting. The food and drink offerings receive mixed reviews, with some attendees recommending dining before the show. Seating arrangements can be a point of contention, with some preferring booth seating for the best view and comfort.
<h3>🎯 Good For</h3>
Music lovers, couples, locals, and tourists seeking live entertainment and an intimate concert experience.
<h3>👍 Popular Mentions</h3>
Intimate venue with diverse music genres, friendly staff, great sound quality, and cocktails.
<h3>💼 From the Business</h3>
Blue Note Hawaii delivers an unforgettable entertainment experience, offering two shows nightly featuring world-class artists. It combines stellar performances with a dining experience in the heart of Waikiki, creating the perfect spot for music lovers.

Reggie Watts is an internationally renowned Musician/Comedian/Writer/Actor who currently stars as the bandleader on CBS&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Late Late Show with James Corden. Using his formidable voice, looping pedals, and his vast imagination, Watts blends and blurs the lines between music and comedy, wowing audiences with performances that are 100% improvised.
Watts&rsquo; first Netflix special&nbsp;Spatial released to massive critical acclaim, with the New York Times calling it &ldquo;a giddy rush of escapist nonsense&rdquo; and dubbing Watts &ldquo;the most influential absurdist in comedy today.&rdquo; The A.V. Club described Spatial as &ldquo;signature Watts, meaning it&rsquo;s alternately exhilarating, silly, exhausting and transcendent,&rdquo; and Exclaim! Magazine called his performance &ldquo;engaging, absurd, thoughtful and, most importantly, wholly unpredictable.&rdquo;

Reggie Watts

In 2025, Foghat celebrates 54&nbsp;years of rock &lsquo;n&rsquo; roll history. This legendary band released their latest album,&nbsp;Sonic Mojo, in November 2023, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Blues Charts and as of June 2024, the album had remained on the charts for 27 weeks. Known for their infectious boogie rock, Foghat continues to captivate audiences, delivering high-energy performances that are just as thrilling today as they were in 1977 when their classic multi-platinum album,&nbsp;Foghat Live, broke them worldwide.
Foghat's timeless appeal spans generations. Their concerts attract Baby Boomers, Gen X&rsquo;ers, Millennials, and younger fans alike. Whether discovered through the video game Guitar Hero III, the movie&nbsp;Dazed &amp; Confused, or the inclusion of "Slow Ride" in&nbsp;Top Gun/Maverick (2023), fans unite under the band's electric energy and boogie-inducing music.

Foghat

&ldquo;No second-guessing, no overthinking. The way I want to live my life is by doing the things that are important to me, and I think everyone should live that way,&rdquo; says Mei Semones of her strengthened self-assurance. Through continuously honing in on her signature fusion of indie rock, bossa nova, jazz and chamber pop in a way that highlights her technical prowess on guitar, the 24-year-old Brooklyn-based songwriter and guitarist is quickly establishing herself as an innovative musical force. Since the release of her acclaimed 2024&nbsp;Kabutomushi&nbsp;EP, a series of lushly orchestrated reflections on love in its many stages, Mei has gone on to tour extensively across the US, cultivate a dedicated following, and write and record her highly anticipated debut album,&nbsp;Animaru. Inspired by the Japanese pronunciation of the word &ldquo;animal&rdquo; in Japanese,&nbsp;Animaru is the embodiment of Mei&rsquo;s deeper trust in her instincts &ndash; a collection of musically impressive tracks that see Mei sounding more adventurous, more vulnerable and more confident than ever before.

Mei Semones

Zoltan Kaszas&nbsp;is an award-winning stand-up comedian known for his sharp, observational humor and love of cats. Born in Hungary, Zoltan and his mother immigrated to the United States in 1991, first settling in Pittsburgh before moving to the&nbsp;trailer&nbsp;parks&nbsp;of San Diego. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Kaszas, who&nbsp;The Atlantic&nbsp;called a &ldquo;breakout star,&rdquo; has been featured on several&nbsp;SiriusXM comedy channels,&nbsp;Laughs on Fox, commercials from Manscaped,&nbsp;Netflix Is a Joke&nbsp;radio &amp; festival, has had hit&nbsp;Dry Bar&nbsp;comedy specials &ldquo;Cat Jokes&rdquo; and &ldquo;Average Intelligence,&rdquo; as well as headlined comedy clubs and theaters across the country. He won the Seattle International Comedy competition, a month-long event held in Washington state. Kaszas also rocked first place gigs at the San Diego Comedy Festival, San Diego&rsquo;s Funniest Person contest and the Rockstar Energy Drink Comedy Throwdown plus spent a month in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Fringe Festival. However, it was Kaszas&rsquo; riff on why cats are better than dogs that quickly went viral, racking up over 68 million views on Facebook. The video traveled the globe, even landing in&nbsp;The Guardian&rsquo;s (UK) as one of the &ldquo;ten funniest things I&rsquo;ve seen on the Internet.&rdquo;

Zoltan Kaszas

The core of the Wailing Souls is the duo of Winston &ldquo;Pipe&rdquo; Matthews and Lloyd &ldquo;Bread&rdquo; McDonald, generally augmented by one or two additional vocalists as the occasion demands. Friends of Bob Marley &amp; the Wailers since their early days singing together in Trench Town, they were&mdash;along with the Abyssinians, the Gladiators, and Burning Spear&mdash;one of a number of roots vocal groups that began to record for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One in the early 1970s. The Wailing Souls brought a poignant, yearning sound associated on one hand with musical traditions of the Jamaican countryside and on the other, with African-American soul outfits like the Impressions and the Temptations, who inspired the formation of scores of Jamaican vocal groups. Many of the latter had perfected their gentle harmonizing singing rock steady&mdash;the romantic, soul-inspired Jamaican music that, for two or three intense years, set the stage for roots reggae. But by the early 1970s, they had abandoned the smooth crooning of rock steady for a raw, less affected vocal quality, typified by the rough voices of Pipe, Bob Marley, and Burning Spear&rsquo;s Winston Rodney.

Wailing Souls

Alfred Robles is a stand up comedian and cat dad known for his observational humor and wild interactions with audiences. Originally hailing from East Los Angeles, Alfred caught the attention of Gabriel Iglesias who offered him an opening spot on his tour. After opening Gabriel&rsquo;s shows across the country and internationally, Alfred set out on his own tour which quickly gained steam when clips from his crowd interactions went viral and amassed millions of views on social media.

Alfred Robles

The only way for a story to progress is to turn the page. John Ondrasik -- the songwriter and performer known as the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, Five For Fighting -- knows this well. In the two decades since his first major single, "Superman (It's Not Easy)," hit the stratosphere, the artist has both evolved and come back 'round full circle. Creativity, if nothing else, is paradoxical.
To date, Five For Fighting, has released six studio LPs, including the platinum certified America Town and The Battle for Everything; and the top-10 charting Two Lights, along with an EP and live albums.
Ondrasik has penned major hits, including the chart-topping "100 Years," "The Riddle," "Chances," "World," and "Easy Tonight," which have earned tens of millions of streams and place him as a top-10 Hot Adult Contemporary artist for the 2000s. The reflective "100 Years" has joined "Superman (It's Not Easy)" as part of the American Songbook and continues to stand the test of time at weddings, birthdays, graduations, memorials, and many a home video. Five For Fighting's music has also been featured in more than 350 films, television shows, and commercials, including the Oscar-winning The Blind Side, Hawaii Five-O, The Sopranos and the CBS drama, Code Black.

Five for Fighting

Hailing from the vibrant music scene of Denver, Colorado, Steely Dead is a national touring band that has satisfied the curiosity of music lovers with their unique blend of Grateful Dead and Steely Dan. Comprised of four exceptionally talented musicians &ndash; Dave Abear on guitar, Matt Abear on bass, Chris Sheldon on drums, and Dylan Teifer on keys &ndash; Steely Dead has gained a dedicated following with their electrifying performances and soulful interpretations of classic tunes. Steely Dead&rsquo;s repertoire is a carefully crafted fusion of Grateful Dead and Steely Dan songs, between the arrangement and precision studio recordings of rock legends Steely Dan, cross-pollinated with the Grateful Dead&rsquo;s free-flowing, melodic improvisation and masterful song segues. Steely Dead merges these major concepts together infusing the influence into each band, all the while creating an original jam element with the song segues. Steely Dead&rsquo;s performances are a musical journey that takes audiences on a nostalgic trip through the golden era of rock and roll. As a national touring band, Steely Dead has built a loyal fan base that eagerly anticipates their shows and follows them from city to city. Their performances are not just concerts, but communal gatherings where fans come together to celebrate the music they love, dance, and create lasting memories. Steely Dead&rsquo;s performances are a testament to the power of live music, bringing people together and creating an unforgettable experience that resonates long after the last note fades. Steely Dead is not just a band; it&rsquo;s a musical experience that captures the hearts and souls of music lovers everywhere

Steely Dead: A Musical Infusion of The Grateful Dead & Steely Dan

For over 50 years, Tower of Power has delivered the best in funk and soul music.&ldquo;We were a Soul band called The Motowns.&rdquo; recalls Emilio Castillo. &ldquo;Rocco was the bass player, I was in there, and my brother was the drummer. I met &ldquo;Doc&rdquo; Kupka back in 1968, and gave him an audition. He came in the band, and we eventually changed our name to the Tower of Power.&rdquo;
East Bay Grease&nbsp;defined their sound and landed them with Warner Brothers.&nbsp;Bump City,&nbsp;their 1972 debut for the label, was a hit on both the Billboard 200 and the R&amp;B Albums chart, and netted them the hits &ldquo;You&rsquo;re Still A Young Man&rdquo; and &ldquo;Down to The Nightclub.&rdquo; The 70s were a boom period with radio classics like &ldquo;So Very Hard to Go&rdquo; and &ldquo;What Is Hip?,&rdquo; and the band continued to tour and record over the years. Castillo says their love of the stage is the same today as it was back in 1968.

Tower of Power

Kate Voegele is an LA based singer-songwriter, recording artist, and content creator. She is also an actress, starring on the hit CW show One Tree Hill, a painter, and business owner of the blog and lifestyle company We The Dreamers. Along with playing thousands of shows touring internationally for the last decade, Voegele has released 4 studio albums to date, selling over 500,000 copies in total and racking up millions of streams. In addition to her most recent release, &ldquo;The Best Part (French Version),&rdquo; a single in collaboration with indie band Bien, Kate has recently released several singles with her band, Your Future Ghost, in anticipation of a debut album drop this summer.
From portraying Elvis Presley in&nbsp;Walk the Line&nbsp;and garnering a cult following as musician Chris Keller on the CW hit TV show&nbsp;One Tree Hill, to writing and touring with the likes of Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum and Joe Cocker, Tyler Hilton has enjoyed an award-winning career spanning music, film and television.

Tyler Hilton & Kate Voegele: Celebrating the Music of One Tree Hill

Hawaiian singer-songwriter John Cruz engages audiences with rich storytelling through songs ranging from Hawaiian to blues, folk, R&amp;B and more. Cruz is a&nbsp; multi-time Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award-winner and contributed a composition and song to the GRAMMY&reg; award-winning album "Slack Key Guitar, Vol. 2." Captivating guitar playing, soulful vocals and a compassionate, genuine heart make Cruz one of Hawaii&rsquo;s most beloved artists.
On stage, he fully embodies every song with this alluring energy translating to his acclaimed albums, "Acoustic Soul" (one of the best selling Hawaii records of all time) and "One of These Days" (bowed at #4 on Billboard&rsquo;s World Music chart). Today, over one million people stream Cruz&rsquo;s music every year as he enjoys regular plays on SiriusXM, prominent features on hit Playing for Change videos (&ldquo;The Weight,&rdquo; &ldquo;Jokerman&rdquo; and &ldquo;All Along The Watchtower&rdquo;) and a new, long-term concert residency at one of Hawaiʻi&rsquo;s top listening rooms, ProArts Studio in Kihei, Maui.

John Cruz With Blayne Asing

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Becky Robinson is an LA-based comedian, writer, actor and voice-over star that has gone from viral sensation to a sold-out theater act.&nbsp;
You may also know her as the &ldquo;Entitled Housewife&rdquo;, the outspoken viral golf character Becky created who co-starred in the two virtual comedy variety specials she self-produced to help spread laughter during the yearlong pandemic. Becky&rsquo;s explosively unique character antics and viral videos have racked up millions of views across social media and garnered fans across the country (and the country clubs!). In 2022, she released the original song &lsquo;Mama Needs a Claw&rsquo; that can be heard on the radio or any major streaming service.&nbsp;

Becky Robinson | Members Only Tour

Charlene Kaye&nbsp;is a musician, comedian and actor based in New York. Under her rock persona KAYE, she has toured the world and opened for Arctic Monkeys, alt-J, St. Vincent, and Metallica.
As a comedian, she is currently touring her solo show &ldquo;Tiger Daughter: Or, How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame,&rdquo; presented by comedy icon Margaret Cho. Tiger Daughter played to sold-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and it will soon be filmed as her first comedy special.
On the internet, Kaye might be most known for creating the wildly viral &ldquo;Every Taylor Swift Song,&rdquo; which has over 100M views and which made fans out of Questlove, Anderson .Paak and Fred Armisen. Rolling Stone recently profiled her with the headline &ldquo;Why Everybody Loves Breakout Comedy Star Charlene Kaye,&rdquo; and she was just interviewed by CBS mornings on how she &ldquo;turned pop parody into viral gold.&rdquo;

Charlene Kaye: Tiger Daughter | Opening Set By Party Foul

If you&rsquo;ve ever been in love, then you&rsquo;ve heard the name All-4-One and their timeless songs &ldquo;I Swear&rdquo;, &ldquo;I Can Love You Like That&rdquo;, &ldquo;So Much In Love&rdquo;, &ldquo; I Turn To You&rdquo;, &ldquo;These Arms&rdquo;, &ldquo;Beautiful As You&rdquo; and much more. The Grammy Award Winning group All-4-One is internationally known for making beautiful love songs that not only chart radio airwaves but also garner countless awards. All-4-One&rsquo;s very first single &ldquo;So Much In Love&ldquo;, scaled to RIAA Gold Sales and top 5 pop status.
The California based quartet soon marked their place in the industry as premier balladeers. Their second single, &ldquo;I Swear&ldquo;, claimed the billboard &ldquo;Hot 100&rdquo; #1 spot for 11 consecutive weeks, while sales skyrocketed to hold the #1 selling single status in 1994 and third most successful single of the rock era. &ldquo;I Swear&rdquo; STILL holds a spot on Billboard&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hot 100&rdquo; as one of the most successful singles of all time and has been named by ASCAP as one of the greatest love songs of the 20th Century. &ldquo;I Swear&rdquo; is recorded in history with an imprint in the Guinness&rsquo;s World Book of records (as the biggest selling single of 1994). The group&rsquo;s second album was highlighted by &ldquo;I Can Love You Like That&rdquo;, a mid-tempo that hit the top 5 on the Billboard &ldquo;Hot 100&rdquo;.

Valentine's Day With All 4 One

Julian Marley is the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Barbados-born Lucy Pounder. Growing up as a youth in a musical atmosphere, the Grammy Award Nominated roots-reggae musician, singer-songwriter, producer and humanitarian quickly adopted a musical lifestyle, and at an early age and became a skillful, self-taught musician mastering the bass, drums, guitar and keyboards.
In 1996, Julian released his debut entitled, Lion in the Morning, which launched him into the public eye. The album was a conscious effort and culmination of his musical development to date and reflected Julian&rsquo;s growing maturity and musical sophistication.
Julian Marley ranks higher in the consciousness movement of music than most reggae artists recognized today. In the same tradition as his father, Julian is a devout Rastafarian whose music is inspired by life and spirituality. And while Julian has built a formidable reputation by transcending musical genres, we can be sure that all future endeavors that the music visionary embarks on will remain spiritual, moral and with a global mission. Julian notes, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t plan the next step, I just continue on with Jah Works and somehow things seem to just come together naturally that way.&rdquo;

Julian Marley

To watch Stella Cole perform is to be transported back in time.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her sense of joy and wonder is infectious &ndash; one look at her massive social media following makes this clear. Take a quick scroll through the comments of any of her many viral videos and you&rsquo;ll see not only her irresistible charm, but an ability to expose fans of all ages to the wonders of the Great American Songbook, especially when these timeless stories are told honestly by an artist with an uncanny ability to transcend generations.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Stella Cole

Local artist Keith Batlin pays tribute to the the legend, Bob Marley, on the day before what would have been his 81st birthday.

A Bob Marley Birthday Tribute With Keith Batlin

Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro returns with pop trio Pure Heart!
Over the past two decades, Jake has proved that there isn&rsquo;t a style of music that he can&rsquo;t play. While versatility for any musician is impressive, what&rsquo;s remarkable about Jake&rsquo;s transcendent skills is how he explores his seemingly limitless vocabulary &ndash; whether it&rsquo;s jazz, rock, blues, bluegrass, folk or even classical &ndash; on perhaps the unlikeliest of instruments: the &lsquo;ukulele. Responding to the urgent calls of his fervent imagination, Jake has taken the &lsquo;ukulele to points previously thought impossible, and in the process he&rsquo;s reinvented the applications for this tiny, heretofore underappreciated four - string instrument, causing many to call him &ldquo;the Jimi Hendrix of the &lsquo;ukulele.&rdquo;

Jake Shimabukuro & Pure Heart

With the drop of his deeply soulful, uber infectious second full-length album As Is, multi- talented singer/songwriter and producer Aaron Night takes his artistry and career to an inspiring new, sharing both his infectious &ldquo;Aloha spirit&rdquo; and more introspective aspects of his personality on a dynamic 10-track collection fusing retro sonic sounds and cultural elements of his Hawaiian heritage with his ever-evolving multitude of talents as a pop, R&amp;B and dance/electronic artist and performer.
Adding to Aaron&rsquo;s fast-growing list of accolades, As Is, released by Universal Music Group/ Dauman Music/Virgin/Downtown, quickly charted at #1 on Amazon Music, prompting an effusive, gratitude filled Instagram outpouring characteristic of his exuberant energy and positivity: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been spinning in circles for no reason at all afternoon &ndash; this still doesn&rsquo;t feel real&rsquo; before thanking Amazon music, everyone streaming the album, &ldquo;every supporter, every believer, every share, every voice. This win is ours!&rdquo;
Hitting the pole position on Amazon Music extends an exciting streak of international chart success that began with his 2021 hit &ldquo;Flares,&rdquo; penned by Ryan Tedder which reached the Top Ten spot on Music Week&rsquo;s UK Pop Chart and #1 on the German Dance Charts. &ldquo;Through It All,&rdquo; the second single from Aaron&rsquo;s debut album Be Patient, was popular across the U.S. continent, debuting at #1 on Chicago radio its first week of release.

Aaron Night

Local trumpeter and bandleader Mike Lewis returns to the club with his 17-piece big band!

Mike Lewis Big Band

Portland, OR-based singer, songwriter, and producer John Craigie adapts moments of solitude into stories perfectly suited for old Americana fiction anthologies. Instead of leaving them on dog-eared pages, he projects them widescreen in flashes of simmering soul and folk eloquence. On his 2022 full-length album,&nbsp;Mermaid Salt, we witness revenge unfurled in flames, watch a landlocked mermaid&rsquo;s escape, and fall asleep under a meteor shower.&nbsp;

John Craigie

The ever-evolving musical vehicle for notorious psych-rock musician Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has endured numerous phases and iterations since arriving in the mid-'90s, becoming something of an independent institution in the process.
Early highlights like 1996's Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request showed Newcombe's propensity for melding late-'60s psychedelia with textured shoegaze, while later standouts like 2015's imaginary soundtrack Musique de Film Imagin&eacute; took a more cerebral and experimental approach. Undoubtedly, the band's most visible period followed the release of the 2004 documentary film DIG!, which focused on the contentious relationship between Newcombe and Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor. With the film criticized by members of both groups for what they considered to be an unfair portrayal, the Brian Jonestown Massacre nonetheless survived the media attention and moved into a particularly fertile period of creativity throughout the 2010s. The band's first release of the next decade was 2022's Fire Doesn't Grow on Trees, quickly followed by 2023's Your Future Is Your Past.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Sarper G&uuml;ven first gained worldwide attention as a reality TV star on TLC&rsquo;s hit show 90 Day Fianc&eacute;, where his bold personality and unique humor made him an unforgettable cast member. His presence on the show built him a strong international fanbase that now follows him to the comedy stage.
Quickly breaking into the U.S. stand-up scene, Sarper delivers nearly one-hour sets filled with sharp, unapologetic takes on relationships, the struggles of marriage, and the shocking cultural differences of American life. His high-energy, fearless style and international perspective have already made him one of the fastest-rising comedians to watch.

Sarper Güven

Lenka has spent much of her time on this earth making music to soothe her own heart and hopefully yours. Her early career as an actress spiked everything with a sense of drama. Her education in fine art peppered all with visual expression. Her love of nature began with a blissful early childhood in the Australian bush. Career highs saw her tour the world extensively and perform on live TV around the globe. Motherhood has brought her back to the Australian countryside, where she now resides and continues to make music.
After releasing seven albums, through Epic Records and her own label Skipalong Records, Lenka is getting ready to release a full-length album of new music in 2026.
Lenka&rsquo;s songs have been featured in many global film and TV placements such as Moneyball, Ugly Betty, Grey&rsquo;s Anatomy, Old Navy, Windows and Coke, to name a few. Her work on Decoder Ring&rsquo;s Somersault soundtrack won the AFI for best song from a film. And Billy Crystal once sang her song at the Oscars.
Lenka has a passionate fan base that continues to grow worldwide, with avid listeners across the globe, especially Asia and Mainland China.

Lenka

Whether behind the piano on a windswept mountainous cliff, at a hallowed venue such as Carnegie Hall, or playing shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the most legendary musicians in history, solo pianist Holly Bowling subverts convention with virtuosic playing, emotional immersion, and a thirst for invention. Acclaimed by&nbsp;Rolling Stone,&nbsp;Billboard,&nbsp;Relix, and more and sought-after by icons such as Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and Warren Haynes, she once again flips the script on her 2020 album and second reimagining of Grateful Dead staples entitled&nbsp;Seeking All That&rsquo;s Still Unsung.

Holly Bowling

The Mountain Goats are, for all practical purposes, the endlessly clever and prolific John Darnielle and whomever he chooses to work with at the moment, which means the sound may change from project to project, but the overall tone and feel of his work remains remarkably consistent. Darnielle writes finely observed, impressionistic vignettes that blend a clear, realistic sense of detail with mildly surreal imaginings, giving his work a literary flavor that suits his status as a songwriter who is also a successful novelist. His early Mountain Goats releases were lo-fi, cassette-recorded efforts cut with a rotating cast of musicians, such as 1995's Nine Black Poppies and 2000's The Coroner's Gambit. By 2005's The Sunset Tree, his recordings had become cleaner and less cluttered, but his character studies were just as vivid. As the Mountain Goats cohered into a stable lineup (with Darnielle joined by Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster), they recorded tuneful, thematically unified albums such as Beat the Champ (2015) and Jenny from Thebes (2023) that ranked with their finestwork.

The Mountain Goats

Eli-Mac&rsquo;s story reads like a fairytale&ndash; it&rsquo;s a musical journey which has turned into an impressive career that took flight with her debut release of her hit five-song EP, entitled Dubstop EP in 2014. A Filipino native, who moved with her family to Hawaii as a youngster, Camile (Eli-Mac spelled backwards) Velasco was a rebel early on, combining her island music roots with her love of R&amp;B and hip-hop. At the age of 18, Camile landed a spot on the hit TV show American Idol as a Top 10 finalist on Season 3. From there, Eli-Mac has been touring relentlessly across the US and beyond, and currently working on a new studio album to release in 2026.
&ldquo;I am proud to incorporate my upbringing in Hawaii into my music,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;That culture remains important to me.&rdquo;

Eli-Mac With Special Guests The Linkz

Derrick &ldquo;Duckie&rdquo; Simpson the &ldquo;Gong Gong Gullie&rdquo; is the founder and leader for reggae&rsquo;s Black Uhuru. Although going through numerous lead singers and musicians they have remained to be one of the most recognized and prolific reggae band for over 50 years.
The roots of Black Uhuru were formed in Kingston Jamaica&rsquo;s Waterhouse district also known as &ldquo;Firehouse&rdquo; in the early '60s. Though considered to be one of Jamaica&rsquo;s toughest neighborhoods it&rsquo;s home to several other reggae singers and musicians. It was where Duckie Simpson grew up and learned to sing from boyhood friends Winston &ldquo;Pipe&rdquo; Matthews and Lloyd &ldquo;Bread&rdquo; McDonald of Wailing Souls and Bob Marley. He recorded four tracks with Wailing Souls before forming his own group.

Black Uhuru

Josh Tatofi returns to Blue Note Hawaii as the 2026&nbsp;artist-in-residence. Known as the "Polynesian Luther Vandross," Tatofi's music, blends traditional and modern elements, resonating with a broad audience. He has received multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awards, highlighting his significant contributions to Hawaiian music. Dedicated to preserving Hawaiian culture, Tatofi uses his platform to promote the Hawaiian language and traditions, bringing the aloha spirit to a global audience through his captivating performances.

Josh Tatofi

TOPS &mdash; musicians David Carriere, Jane Penny, Marta Cikojevic, and Riley Fleck &mdash;&nbsp; write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. Bury the Key, their first full-length since 2020 and with new label home Ghostly International, is a captivating reintroduction for the Montr&eacute;al band: ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evolving and testing themselves against different, at times darker tones. The album faces feelings once locked away, engaging the give-and-take between happiness, hedonism, and self- destruction. While often inhabited by fictional figures, their glowing, grooving, self-produced songs draw from personal observations: intimacy (both inside and outside the band), toxic behavior, drug use, and apocalyptic dread. When recording started, they noticed a shift and leaned in, jokingly dubbed "evil TOPS," says Penny. "We're always kind of seen as a soft band or like naive or friendly in a Canadian way, but we made it a challenge to really channel the world around us." Through the lens of a looming epoch and the clarity that comes with age, TOPS dip into a more sinister disco realm with Bury the Key, giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.

TOPS

Over the years, Peter White has maintained a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape. Armed with an unparalleled combination of lyricism and energy, he combines elements of jazz, pop and classical guitar to create a sound that is singular and at the same time accessible to a broad audience.
In a career that spans nearly four decades, over a dozen solo recordings and countless performances, White insists that it&rsquo;s the faces in the crowd and the fans that keep the experience fresh. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll play a live show, and someone will come to me afterward and say, &lsquo;Oh, I loved this CD,&rsquo; or &lsquo;This song helped me through a bad time,&rsquo;&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;Or I get emails from people saying, &lsquo;Oh, I love the way you covered one of my favorite songs on your record back in 1994.&rsquo; The idea that someone can write me an email and tell me about something I did on a record that was released fifteen years ago &ndash; you can&rsquo;t buy that. That&rsquo;s priceless. That&rsquo;s what keeps me going &ndash; the idea that people out there really care about what I do, the idea that I&rsquo;ve made a difference for someone.&rdquo;

Peter White

&ldquo;A good time romp&hellip;raucous blues with high-energy soloing, mixtures of careening slide and razor-edged bursts, all delivered with unflagging enthusiasm and wit.&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;Rolling Stone
&ldquo;Rousing, down-home, feel-good music&hellip;spunky rhythms and razor-sharp slide&hellip;Bishop&rsquo;s a superb guitarist of great strength and skill&hellip;a rockin&rsquo; good time.&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;Guitar World
On the title track of his new album,&nbsp;Can&rsquo;t Even Do Wrong Right, legendary blues guitarist, songwriter and singer&nbsp;Elvin Bishop spins a tale of a not-too-smart criminal getting caught by his own foolish missteps. The shaggy dog story, fueled by Bishop&rsquo;s down-home delivery and deep blues slide guitar, is an affirmation of the Chicago Sun-Times&rsquo; ebullient praise: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s impossible not to like Bishop. He&rsquo;s always singing something lowbrow and uplifting.&rdquo; With his buoyant and deceptively loose-sounding ensemble behind him, he&rsquo;s also playing some of the most spirited and distinctive blues slide guitar today.

Elvin Bishop

Maui Pranksters - Let It Rock!
The Maui Pranksters play both kinds of music - that of the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia. Headed by guitar-wielding, band leader Troll Garcia, the Pranksters&rsquo; performances and spirit serve as a powerful catalyst, creating a joyous, judgement free environment that breaks through today&rsquo;s pop culture and declares &ldquo;all are welcome&rdquo; and &ldquo;love and community are paramount.&rdquo;
It&rsquo;s a continuation of the culture fostered by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/ken-kesey-merry-pranksters">Ken Kesey&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters">Merry Pranksters</a>, the Warlocks, Grateful Dead and Deadheads, and a recognition of the wonderful opportunity provided by the foundation of Hawaiʻi and Maui communities, aloha.
In recent years, the Maui Pranksters&rsquo; headlight has grown bright, shining through Maui&rsquo;s mountain rains and deep valleys in grand fashion thanks to countless shows, including escapades at Joey &lsquo;Electric&rsquo;s&rsquo; glorious New Year&rsquo;s Eve parties, that have left the coconut wireless fully lit.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The Maui Pranksters&rsquo; March 13 concert at Blue Note Hawaiʻi is their debut performance in Waikīkī - bright lights, big city - leaving the Pranksters with only one choice of what to do.
LET IT ROCK!&nbsp;

Maui Pranksters

<div>Irie Love returns to the Blue Note Hawaii stage with new music and new energy. Irie Love is a Hawaiian reggae artist, also known as the Queen of Island Reggae. She released a new album on December 5, 2025. She returns to the Blue Notes stage to share her message of unity and aloha through sweet reggae melodies alongside her soulful vocals. Irie Love&rsquo;s mission is to empower young women through her Mana Wāhine Movement. Join us for a magical night of music and positive vibrations.</div>