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SOA Places First in Chorus Category, 19th Avenue Wins Most Entertaining Quartet at Far Western District Contest!
We were very honored and excited to have won awards in both the chorus and quartet contests at the 2025 Fall Convention of the Barbershop Harmony Society's Far Western District in Fresno, California, October 9-12! The chorus placed first in the Plateau A for similarly...
Another Year of Singing Valentines Fun!
The Sounds of Alohaʻs ever-popular Hawaii Singing Valentines program had yet another year of fun and success on February 13 and 14, 2025, of raising funds to support youth music. Our quartets delivered serenades from Hawaiʻi Kai to Waialua, whether at a school,...
Annual “Gift of Song” Tradition Continues!
Going back to 2018, the Sounds of Aloha Chorus has presented a free annual Christmas concert, "A Gift of Song" at the beautiful, historic, and acoustically wonderful Kawaiahaʻo Church. The church is directly across from the annual Honolulu City Lights in and around...
Highlights from Hawai’i Singing Valentines 2024!
Another busy and memorable year of romantic musical messaging by Sounds of Aloha quartets brought smiles, tears, and laughter to surprised Hawai'i Singing Valentines recipients! This was the kind of scene repeated all over O’ahu to unsuspecting lovebirds and delighted...
SOA’s First Holiday Cabaret Dinner Proves a Hit!
The Sounds of Aloha Chorus has had a very successful run over the years of sold-old cabaret dinners, where our audiences have been as enthusiastic about the quality of the food as the quality of the entertainment! Our latest cabaret broke new ground as…
SOA Continues Memorial Day Tradition
One of the favorite performances the Sounds of Aloha is the Mayor’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Pūowaina. For years, we have been proud and privileged to share our music with veterans, their families, milit…
SOA Shares Evening of Humorous Music with HPU Choir!
What a fun evening the Sounds of Aloha had as guest performers in the Hawaii Pacific University International Vocal Ensemble’s spring concert on March 31, 2023! Dubbed “Laugh Tracks,” the whole concert featured humorous songs. Our chorus and quartets d…
Announcing Our New Musical Leadership!
The Sounds of Aloha Chorus is proud to welcome our own Bryce Irvine as our new Interim Musical Director and Rob Hartley as our new Interim Assistant Musical Director!
Musical Director Mark Conching, who has led the Sounds of Aloha since 2015, recently …
Highlights of 2023 Annual Singing Valentines Fun!
Song and romance were in the Oahu air again for 2023’s round of Sounds of Aloha Hawaii Singing Valentines! This is always such fun for our singers as well as our recipients and customers. Plenty of laughter, smiles, tears, cheers, and blushing, as usua…
SOA Offers Gift of Free Christmas Concert
During the last two holiday seasons before the pandemic, SOA offered “A Gift of Song” free performances in collaboration with the Kawaiaha’o Church. These concerts were so warmly received that we expressed the hope this might become an ongoing traditio…
Sounds of Aloha Octet Sings for Veterans Day Ceremony Aboard USS Missouri
An octet from the Sounds of Aloha Chorus performed the “Star-Spangled Banner” and “Hawai’i Pono’i” at a special Veterans Day sunset ceremony onboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial at Pearl Harbor, an event that concluded Veterans Day observances acro…
SOA’s Dinner Cabaret Returns — with Love Songs!
The first Sounds of Aloha dinner cabaret since before the pandemic reminded everyone why we all loved this event! Another full house of diners, listeners, and sing-along-ers gathered on Saturday, August 26, at St. Pius X Parish in Mānoa Valley for a su…
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