Matisyahu goes acoustic at Blue Note Hawaii in February

The reggae singer brings "An Acoustic Evening With Matisyahu" to the 326-seat Waikiki club on Wednesday, Feb. 10.

Blue Note Hawaii seats about 326 people, which is roughly the size of a big wedding. On Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2027, it gets Matisyahu, stripped down: the show is billed as "An Acoustic Evening With Matisyahu."

The TicketWeb listing puts the show at 6:30 p.m. Hawaii time, with doors at 5, and tickets from $55 to $65. The Blue Note Hawaii site lists Matisyahu across Feb. 10–11, and the TicketWeb listing also notes a second show at 9 p.m., with second entry at 8:30; check the venue page for the exact show times you want. The date was announced Oct. 14.

A few house rules, from the listing: there's a $20 minimum per person, seating is first come, first served within each section, and there are no refunds or exchanges. The club is inside the Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort at 2335 Kalakaua Ave., and validated parking is available at the Outrigger Paradise, with the entrance on Kuhio Avenue. The venue says tickets bought through its own site or TicketWeb are the only authorized sources.

The acoustic format is the story. Matisyahu spent much of 2026 playing acoustic evenings — at the Boulder Theater in March and elsewhere — after touring behind *Ancient Child*, the album he released Oct. 3, 2025, on Fallen Sparks, per Brooklyn Bowl. On some of those dates he was joined by longtime collaborator Adam Weinberg on guitar. Without the full band, the songs lean on his voice — the cantorial swoops, the beatboxing, the way he stretches a melody — and a room the size of the Blue Note is where that kind of show makes the most sense.

Without the full band, the songs lean on his voice — and a room the size of the Blue Note is where that makes the most sense.

He's no stranger to Hawaii audiences. Matisyahu sat down with Dave Lawrence for Hawaii Public Radio's *Road Stories* in October 2024, and KHON2 has covered his acoustic evenings at the Blue Note before. Reggae has deep roots on the islands, and a Matisyahu acoustic show at the Blue Note draws from both sides of that — longtime fans of his early records and people who come for anything with an offbeat.

The Blue Note itself is a dinner-and-a-show room, tables close to the stage, the kind of place where a singer can hear the audience breathe. That intimacy cuts both ways: it's a great way to hear an artist, and with only about 326 seats, it doesn't take many buyers to make a night scarce. If there is a second night on the 11th, that helps, but it's still a small room.

If you want to go, buy through the venue or TicketWeb, arrive early enough to pick a good seat in your section, and budget for the food-and-drink minimum. It's a Wednesday night in February in Waikiki, and for a couple of hours, it'll be just a voice, a guitar and a few hundred people listening.

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