Saturday is the last day of the 60th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival, with the Royal Parade in the morning and the last hula competition and crowning of the group champions in the evening.
Get ready, world. The Merrie Monarch Festival returns next week with full regalia for the first time since 2019, and there’s just two days left until the celebration of hula and everything Hawaiian gets underway.
Five years after declaring bankruptcy|!!| the newly renamed Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra is not only on budget|!!| it’s traveling to perform on the Neighbor Islands again|!!| hosting internationally renowned guest musicians and attracting new audiences. What happened?