Territorial Airwaves..
Your Source for the History of Hawaiian Music !

ON THE ROAD BACK TO VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON.  HARRY B. SORIA, JR. WILL EMCEE THE HAPA HAOLE HULA COMPETITION at Esther Short Park, in Vancouver, Washington.  This year's "3 Days of Aloha" are to be held on July 29, 30, & 31, 2010.  Judges this year will include Robert Cazimero, Leialoha Amina,  & Victoria Holt Takamine.  Winning soloists and groups will again be showcased at the following day's Ho'ike and Hawaiian Festival during the finale of the Three Days of Aloha.  The memorable event is presented each year by Ke Kukui Foundation and PA"I Foundation.  Click on our gallery section to view photos of the 2009 event.

HULA O NA KEIKI 2010 at the Ka'anapali Beach Hotel, November 12 - 14, 2010.  The Ka'anapali Beach Hotel will celebrate 20 years of Hula O Na Keiki, Maui's only solo keiki hula compettion!  Territorial Airwaves consulted previously with the auana portion of the competition, but for the 20th annual event, Harry B. Soria, Jr. has been invited to assist Mistress of Ceremonies, Ekela Crozier at this exciting occasion.

TERRITORIAL AIRWAVES IS YOUR SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC!  Find the legends of Hawaiian music, hear their voices, see their faces, enjoy their music.  Follow the radio dials on this page to the legends of Hawaiian music!

THE ISAACS OHANA RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HOKU AWARD..  Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs and his three musical sons: Barney, Norman, & Atta, were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Na Hoku Hanaohano Awards Festival on Saturday, May 29, 2010.  Harry B. Soria, Jr. was given the honor of inducting the Isaacs Ohana into the Hokus.  To mark the occasion, check out our musical tribute to the Isaacs Ohana in our tributes section.  Click on the photo of Alvin Isaacs to the right, and enjoy the earliest known recording made by Alvin in 1934. As a bonus, we've included a second tribute, featuring Alvin and his 3 Sons performing, "Puka In Kalihi".  Congratulations Isaacs Ohana!

WAIKIKI BEACH WALK STEEL GUITAR FESTIVAL - SUNDAY, JULY 4th, 2010 --- The Outrigger Enterprises Group, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Waikiki Beach Walk, the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association, Embassy Suites Waikiki Beach, and Territorial Airwaves, with support from KeKulaMele.com proudly presented the 1st Annual Waikiki Beach Walk Steel Guitar Festival.  Sunday, July 4th, 2010, from 2:00 to 6:00 PM, at the Plaza Stage at Waikiki Beach Walk.  A steel guitar seminar preceded the concert at 1:00 PM.  The concert featured many of today's great Hawaiian steel guitarists in a special day to celebrate the signature sound of Hawaii.  Steel guitarists included Alan Akaka, Greg Sardinha, Jeff Ah Hoy, Casey Olsen, & many others.  Hosted by Brickwood Galuteria and Harry B. Soria, Jr.  It was a truly wonderful inaugural event celebrating the signature sound of Hawaiian music, the Hawaiian Steel Guitar !

WE'VE GOT NEW PHOTOS IN THE GALLERY SECTION!  Check out out recent photos taken at the 2010 Hoku Awards, Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, and latest Japan concert.  (Pages 18 and 19)

HARRY B. SORIA, JR. SERVED HALAU MOHALA ILIMA AS VOLUNTEER VAN DRIVER AT THE 47th ANNUAL MERRIE MONARCH HULA FESTIVAL IN HILO, HAWAII.  This was the 32nd year of the halau's participation in the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, under the direction of Kumu Hula Mapuana de Silva, and Harry B. was honored to be included in the halau's ohana.  Harry B. has documented the Merrie Monarch experience for you with his Sony camera April 7th through the 12th .  Click to see our latest Merrie Monarch photos on pages 17 & 18 of our Gallery section.

BACK IN JAPAN.  HARRY B. SORIA, JR. EMCEED A CONCERT IN SHINEGAWA, JAPAN.  Harry B. returned to Tokyo to emcee another beautiful concert of Hawaiian music and hula in Japan on Saturday, April 24, 2010.  Hawaiian entertainers included O'Brien Eselu & his male halau, Mapuana De Silva & her Halau Mohala Ilima, and musicians supporting each halau.  In addition, numerous Japan hula studios joined the Hawaiian entertainers on stage, plus Melveen Leed entertained.  Click to see our latest Japan photos on page 18 of our Gallery section.

HARRY B. SORIA, JR. EMCEED "MILITARY APPRECIATION NIGHT", "AN EVENING OF ALOHA", SPONSORED BY THE HAWAII CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT THE ROYAL HAWAIIAN HOTEL MONARCH ROOM.  Alan Akaka & the Islanders provided the music, and Harry B. took the dignitaries in attendance back to the time of WWII when the Royal Hawaiian served as a rest & relaxation facility for the US Navy.  Wednesday, April 28, 2010.

HARRY B. SORIA, JR. EMCEED THE CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ALUMNI LUAU.  Saturday, May 1, 2010, on the university campus in Honolulu.  Program featured the beautiful chalangalang mele of the Pua Melia Trio, with Pudgy Young, Francine Mamo Wassman, & Charlene Campbell, along with hula led by Lilinoe Lindsey & the keiki from her halau, Ka Pa Nani 'O Lilinoe.  Good fun luau!

DOROTHY "AUNTIE DOTTIE" THOMPSON, (88) MATRIARCH OF THE MERRIE MONARCH HULA FESTIVAL HAS PASSED ON, JOINING PATRIARCH OF THE FESTIVAL, GEORGE NA'OPE, WHO WE LOST LATE LAST YEAR.  KUMU HULA RAE FONSECA (56)  HAS ALSO PASSED AWAY.  AND WE RECENTLY LOST EMCEE & CULTURAL CONSULTANT UNCLE KEOLA BEAMER (80).  DON McDIARMID, JR. (89) THE PATRIARCH OF "HULA RECORDS" HAS ALSO PASSED AWAY.  TREASURES ALL....

WE'RE LOOKING AHEAD AT TERRITORIAL AIRWAVES.COM!  Keep checking this site regularly, and see if you can identify the subtle modifications that will enhance your overall Territorial experience.

Check out Harry B.'s  weekly radio program, "Territorial Airwaves",  in it's 31st consecutive year, (spanning 5 decades), broadcast at http://hawaiian105.com/markets/honolulu/ads/09territorial-airwaves.html, on the "Territorial Airwaves" page.   

CAN IT BE OUR 31st ANNIVERSARY ALREADY IN 2010!!!  IT WAS JUST JUNE 13, 2009 WHEN WE MARKED OUR 30th ANNIVERSARY OF CONTINUOUS BROADCASTING VINTAGE HAWAIIAN MUSIC!  Our first broadcast was on June 13, 1979.  Harry B. Soria, Jr. is pictured in the Territorial Airwaves studio  broadcasting the weekly program.  This photo accompanied John Berger's informative feature on Territorial Airwaves in the Friday, June 12th, 2009 edition of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.  (Photo: Dennis Oda)  Click on page 16 of our Territorial Gallery section to read John Berger's article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for our 30th annivesary, and even one from 10 years ago, for our 20th anniversary.

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES - TERRITORIAL AIRWAVES IN-FLIGHT SHOW.  When you are flying in and out of the Hawaiian Islands with our friends at Hawaiian Airlines, you can listen to Territorial Airwaves, you source for the history of Hawaiian music.  Territorial Airwaves In-Flight Show, Channel Number 6, Hawaiian Airlines.

Our trips to the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival in Hilo, Hawaii, are always via Hawaiian Airlines, "We'll Take You There".

ANNUAL LILI'UOKALANI PROTESTANT CHURCH LUAU IN HALEIWA, O'AHU, HAWAII.  Harry B. Soria, Jr. emceed the annual Queen Lili'uokalani Church benefit luau in beautiful Haleiwa on O'ahu's North Shore on Saturday, August 1, 2009, from 12 noon to 3 PM.  Harry B. has helped out at the annual event for nearly 20 years since he was asked by friend Dick Rodby, former owner of Kemoo Farms, to help out after previous emcee Charles K. L. Davis passed away.  There is always plenty of food, entertainment, and fellowship at the big luau! 

GOLDEN PRINCESS - SCHOLARSHIP @ SEA LECTURE SERIES FEATURES TERRITORIAL AIRWAVES.    Harry B. Soria, Jr. presented a 4 part port lecture series on the week-long Los Angeles to Hawaii leg of the TransPacific cruise on the Golden Princess of the Princess Cruises fleet. Harry B.'s talks about pre-Statehood Hawaiian music subjects were underscored by timely hula. (Click for more cruise photos on pages 13 & 14 of our photo gallery.) 

Click on the Sony feature to the right and hear the  radio spot voiced by Harry B. Soria, Jr. for the 40th anniversary Sony Hawaii Sony Expo in Honolulu.

HAWAIIAN MUSIC IN THE BIG APPLE!   THE MAKAHA SONS WITH HAWAII'S LEGENDS & JAPAN'S BEST!  HAWAIIAN MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY.    Harry B. emceed the concert in the Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage of Carnegie Hall in New York City on Saturday, May 31st, 2008.  Check out  our Gallery for more photos of our NYC adventure, including photos taken on Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the All Hawaii Annual Picnic held on Summit Rock in Central Park.

RADIO AIRCHECKS!  Check out our latest additions to our Radio section -- radio air checks from March of 1991.  Old friend Bob Ruseckas gifted us with airchecks that he made of the "Harry B. from 12 to 3" show on 1420 AM KCCN, Station Aloha, on a Sunday afternoon in '91.  Featured airchecks include a "Territorial Airwaves" spot, and the Top of the Hour ID. Click to the right to hear the airchecks.

HAWAIIAN MALE FALSETTO!  The finest falsetto collection available!  The ultimate Hawaiian male falsetto compact disc is now avaiable at Territorial Airwaves.com!  It's the long awaited and eagerly anticipated disc entitled, "Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln - Hawaii's Falsetto Poet".  This CD of beautiful restorations of original vintage recordings from the 1930s through the 1970s will surely please any traditional Hawaiian music fan.  Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln's music was written especially for the hula, and his arrangements are still embraced by Hawaii's musicians, singers, and dancers.  Click on the album cover to learn more!

BRUDDAH IZ!  Check out our Gallery pages to find a very young Israel Kamakawiwo'ole under the vintage "Territorial Airwaves" cap in 1983.  IZ  was performing with the "Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau" at the "Ranch House" restaurant in Aina Haina. 

Click on any of our album, radio, and tribute features to the right to learn more about the history of Hawaiian music!

You'll always find new historical exhibits at TerritorialAirwaves.Com, Your Source For The History of Hawaiian Music.   Our website is a companion to the longest continuously running radio program in the Hawaiian Islands, "Territorial Airwaves", now in its 32nd year. 

TerritorialAirwaves.Com provides a multi-media extension of the long running radio broadcast, taken from the 10,000+ recordings in the Territorial Airwaves Archives, by providing a virtual museum filled with displays devoted to the preservation and perpetuation of traditional Hawaiian music.  We honor Hawaiian music legends!                          

TerritorialAirwaves.Com now features an incredible lineup of Hawaiian music legends on our Radio Channel pages, including Genoa Keawe, Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole, Alvin Kaleolani Isaacs, Benny Kalama, Harry Owens, Sol Kekipi Bright, Randy Oness, Kahauanu Lake, Nina Keali'iwahamana, Mahi Beamer, Iwalani Kahalewai, Bill Ka'iwa, Melveen Leed, Jerry Byrd, Marlene Sai, Kawai Cockett, Leina'ala Haili, Kealoha Kalama, Kimo Alama Keaulana, Myrtle K. Hilo, Joe Keawe, Emme Tomimbang, Ron Jacobs, Myra English, Van Diamond, Nalani Olds, Gary Aiko, Don Ho, Boyce Rodrigues, Palani Vaughan, Buddy Fo, Clay Naluai, Karen Keawehawaii, Led Ka'apana, Ned Ka'apana, Bernard Kalua, Elaine Ako Spencer, Lawaiana Mokulehua Gonsalves, Rodney Arias, Noelani Kanoho Mahoe, Mona & Ethelynne Teves, Ka'upena Wong, Danny Kaleikini, Joe Moore, Prince Kawohi, George "Keoki" Matsushita, Keola Donaghy, Sonny Kamahele, and we keep adding more.....

Our Tributes channel pages at TerritorialAirwaves.Com feature Genoa Keawe, Raiatea Helm, Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln, Joe Keawe, Sol Ho'opi'i, Kalama Quartette, Johnny Pineapple, Greg Sardinha, Dennis Pavao, Hui Ohana, Ho'opi'i Brothers, Andy Cummings, Gabby Pahinui, Charles Kaipo Miller, Sonny Chillingworth, Marlene Sai, Sunday Manoa, Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom, Leina'ala Haili, Rainbow Serenaders, Halona, Danny Kapoi Trio, Pua Almeida, Gary Aiko, The Brothers Cazimero, Mikilani Fo, Iwalani Kahalewai, The Kahauanu Lake Singers, Holunape, and Na Palapalai!   Songs featured in our tributes include "Kawaihae Hula", "Leila", "Holoholo Ka'a", "Sweet Lei Lehua", "Ka Loke", "My Yellow Ginger Lei", "Waimea Cowboy", "Mahina O Hoku", "Aloha Kaua'i", "Moanikealaonapuamakahikina", and "Lei Ohu". 

TerritorialAirwaves.com features music and exhibits from all eras of Hawaiian music history, embracing the steel guitar, ukulele, hula, falsetto and harmony, chant and mele, traditional and hapa haole music, radio and television, with fresh new exhibits added regularly. 

Thanks so much for joining us.  See you on the radio!   We'd love to hear from you.  Email Harry B. here.