Stephen Inglis, left, and Dennis Kamakahi’s album of songs about Kalaupapa “Waimaka Helelei,” won a Na Hoku Hanohano Award in 2012. Valerie Monson, executive ­director of the nonprofit Ka ‘Ohana O ...
A virtual concert to help raise funds to build the Kalaupapa Memorial will be presented at 1 p.m. Oct. 17, with Brother Noland, Melveen Leed, Stephen Inglis, Kevin Brown and Lopaka Ho’opi’i paying ...
HONOLULU — The rich history of music written at Kalaupapa will be celebrated by some of Hawai‘i’s most well-known musicians in a virtual concert, “The Music of Kalaupapa,” airing at 1 p.m. on Saturday ...
The late Kalaupapa musician Sammy Kuahine (top row with bass) and fellow musicians are pictured with some of the Sisters of St. Francis who served the community — and enjoyed music, as well. — Mother ...
Save money, live better, travel more.Kyong Son Toyofuku, left, her goddaughter Yunra Huh, center, and husband, Lance Toyofuku, walk into St. Philomena Church during a tour of Kalaupapa. The church was ...
This was the face of leprosy in Hawaii. And this was the place that became a prison for the sick beginning in 1866. State administrator Mike McCarten says of Kalaupapa, "Well once it was a place of ...