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Evening Concert gives listeners a chance to unwind through the pau hana hours. You'll enjoy classic performances, along with weather updates and musical birthdays and anniversaries.

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Hawaii Public Radio is now offering on-demand listening for a few of our HPR music shows.  

Stream past episodes of Bridging the Gap HERE

Stream past episodes of Kanikapila Sunday HERE

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Classical Pacific presents classical music from pre-Renaissance to the current day, locally curated by Keali‘iloma (Louise Keali‘iloma King Lanzilotti). The program is live weekdays from 3-6pm Hawaiian Standard time, streaming live on  hawaiipublicradio.org and on the HPR mobile app.  

Playing a lot of tried and true favorites for this session of Bridging the Gap, because it's late, because I'm exhausted, and because it's my birthday (so I'm doing what I want). If you have the means to support public radio, please consider becoming a sustaining member.

A fresh set of feel-good and mellow indie sounds to bring us into the warm spring weather. Featuring newly released music from Real Estate, Big Thief, Xiu Xiu, Alicia Clara (pictured), L'impératrice, and more. 

Our Spring 2021 Fund Drive is underway, so I'm keeping the music close to home and playing a lot of favorites both old and new and trying to keep the music light and cool. If you have the means to support public radio, please consider becoming a sustaining member.

Digging through new Indie Rock and a few favorites for this session of Bridging the Gap.

Kanikapila Sunday features three hours of Great Hawaiian Music, including contemporary, traditional and hapa haole songs. You'll also hear slack key guitar and 'ukulele instrumentals. Plus, the Kanikapila Sunday Classic! Join host Derrick Malama TODAY from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Hawai’i Time (4:00-7:00 p.m. Pacific/7:00-10:00 p.m. Eastern on HPR-1. Listen online, on the HPR app, or ask your smart speaker to ‘Play KHPR’! Connect by Facebook.

Happy April, folks! Tonight's show is full of rare groove soul cuts, most which have been re-released over the past couple of years. A great listening experience to satisfy your soul.

So I'm clearing the music build-up of my virtual desk, and playing a few discoveries and a few other songs that I just can't get out of my head for this session of Bridging the Gap. Expect an eclectic blend of Indie Rock, World Music, and other tasty bits.

Ushering in warmer weather with a dreamy blend of Bossa, International Indie, African fusion and more for this session of Bridging the Gap.

Kanikapila Sunday features three hours of Great Hawaiian Music, including contemporary, traditional and hapa haole songs. You'll also hear slack key guitar and 'ukulele instrumentals. Plus, the Kanikapila Sunday Classic! Join host Derrick Malama TODAY from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Hawai’i Time (4:00-7:00 p.m. Pacific/7:00-10:00 p.m. Eastern on HPR-1. Listen online, on the HPR app, or ask your smart speaker to ‘Play KHPR’! Connect by Facebook.

Starting the show with a song entitled "Colouour" by Moses Sumney (pictured), and we will see where the rest of the night takes us. An assortment of mellow beats, celestial voices, and ambient sounds tonight on Bridging the Gap.

With this slightly rainy weather I'm gonna 'hana hou' this older session of Bridging the Gap from last year which was a chilled and mellow selection of Jazz, Bossa, and Downtempo.

Spring is finally here! So we're celebrating with a selection of seasonal Indie, Jazz, and maybe a little Classical.

Kanikapila Sunday features three hours of Great Hawaiian Music, including contemporary, traditional and hapa haole songs. You'll also hear slack key guitar and 'ukulele instrumentals. Plus, the Kanikapila Sunday Classic! Join host Derrick Malama TODAY from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Hawai’i Time (4:00-7:00 p.m. Pacific/7:00-10:00 p.m. Eastern on HPR-1. Listen online, on the HPR app, or ask your smart speaker to ‘Play KHPR’! Connect by Facebook.

Celebrating this (socially distanced) St. Patricks Day on Bridging the Gap with a few Irish favorites and a bunch of other randon treats.

Paige Okamura and I switched spots this week! Selecting songs on the fly tonight and featuring genres such as soul, r&b, funk, jazz, and more. 

You can listen to Paige's show this week Thursday at 10pm on HPR1.

The description is a little bit of a lie, as this session of Bridging the Gap is going to be an eclectic mix of Downtempo, remixed Jazz, World and other tasty bits.

Kanikapila Sunday features three hours of Great Hawaiian Music, including contemporary, traditional and hapa haole songs. You'll also hear slack key guitar and 'ukulele instrumentals. Plus, the Kanikapila Sunday Classic! Join host Derrick Malama TODAY from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Hawai’i Time (4:00-7:00 p.m. Pacific/7:00-10:00 p.m. Eastern on HPR-1. Listen online, on the HPR app, or ask your smart speaker to ‘Play KHPR’! Connect by Facebook.

Tonights show doesnt pertain to a certain theme, but songs that I listen to when I want to relax to or dance to during these rainy times.  Expect to hear some Soul, Indie Rock, World music and much more.  Just another tibit of music to get you through the night.

Some psychedelic rock with hints of the blues to get you through the rainy night...

I love these types of shows. Stringing together a bunch of (mostly) new music thatʻs been stuck in my head or sitting on my desk waiting for you to discover it. Expect new music from Common, The Marias (pictured), Caoilfhionn Rose, and more.

Celebrating International Womenʻs Day with an eclectic selection of Americana, Soul, Rock, and World all voiced by strong women.

Kanikapila Sunday features three hours of Great Hawaiian Music, including contemporary, traditional and hapa haole songs. You'll also hear slack key guitar and 'ukulele instrumentals. Plus, the Kanikapila Sunday Classic! Join host Derrick Malama TODAY from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Hawai’i Time (3:00-6:00 p.m. Pacific/6:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern on HPR-1. Listen online, on the HPR app, or ask your smart speaker to ‘Play KHPR’! Connect by Facebook.

Tonight is in tribute to a family friend who pasted away just a day before my first show.  Deems Tsutakawa was a jazz pianist from Seattle Washington whom my dad was very close to.  Tsutakawa has performed around the world including in the atheron studios here at HPR.  The setlist will be primarily focused on Jazz with some Indie Rock, Funk, and Soul mixed in between.  R.I.P. Uncle Deems. 

BBE Records recently released J Jazz Volume 3: Deep Modern Jazz from Japan. It's an excellent compilation featuring rare recordings from the height of Japan's jazz era, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Tonight, we will hear some tracks off this release, and from other well-respected Japanese jazz musicians... some from my personal record collection.

We lost the last Wailer. Bunny Wailer, one of the three original members of The Wailers passed away at 73, so this session of Bridging the Gap is going to be a quick sampler of Reggae and Ska.

Sticking with the familiar territory of Downtempo, Bossa and World Music for this session of Bridging the Gap. Expect new music from The Menahan Street Band, Poolside (pictured), Manika Kaur, and more.

Kanikapila Sunday features three hours of Great Hawaiian Music, including contemporary, traditional and hapa haole songs. You'll also hear slack key guitar and 'ukulele instrumentals. Plus, the Kanikapila Sunday Classic! Join host Derrick Malama TODAY from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Hawai’i Time (3:00-6:00 p.m. Pacific/6:00-9:00 p.m. Eastern on HPR-1. Listen online, on the HPR app, or ask your smart speaker to ‘Play KHPR’! Connect by Facebook.