Royal Hawaiian Band

The only real full-time municipal music group in america, the Royal Hawaiian Music group have already been performing an assortment of traditional Hawaiian music and fresh compositions since 1836. Shaped by purchase of Ruler Kamechameha III, beneath the path of Henry Berger, the group is currently a company of the town and region of Honolulu. A lot of the financing necessary to support the group is still raised by way of a nonprofit corporation, the Friends from the Royal Hawaiian Music group. Hawaii-born Aaron David Mahi, the Royal Hawaiian Band’s seventeenth bandmaster, offers kept the post since 1981. A graduate from the Kamehameha College in Honolulu, Mahi gained a qualification in music education through the Hartt University in Connecticut. Furthermore to leading the Royal Hawaiian Music group, Mahi offers performed and carried out the Hawaiian Symphony Orchestra as well as the Windward Symphony. The Royal Hawaiian Band’s concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall on July 16, 1988 was documented and released like a two volume arranged, Live at Carnegie Hall.