THE TREE
REMEMBERS

MOANALUA GARDENS · EST. 1884

THE TREE
IS 110 YEARS OLD

The Great Banyan of Moanalua Gardens has spread its roots across Hawaiian soil since 1884. Its aerial roots — some thick as telephone poles — have witnessed generations of ceremonies, gatherings, and the quiet passage of time.

On Halloween night 2026, the tree witnesses something new: 5,850 people becoming one organism beneath its canopy. Underground electronic music as ceremony. As offering. As memory made sound.

HALLOWEEN · OCT 31 · 18:00 HST

THE VEIL
BREAKS TONIGHT

In Hawaiian tradition, Samhain and the old Hawaiian spiritual calendar converge at this time of year — when the membrane between worlds grows thin. The ancestors walk among the living. The dead are not gone; they dance.

We chose Halloween not for its costume-party energy, but for its ancient truth: the night when music becomes prayer, when bass frequencies align with something older than language. A portal, made of sound.

THE OPENING

A SHINTO CEREMONY
UNDER HAWAIIAN SKY

As the Hawaiian sun touches the Pacific horizon at 18:00, a Shinto priest from Japan performs お祓い — a purification ritual — at the roots of the Great Banyan. Taiko drums echo across the garden. The first electronic note drops at sunset.

This is Japan meeting Hawaii meeting underground culture — a collision of ritual forms that has never existed before. The festival doesn't start with a DJ. It starts with silence, then drums, then everything.

THE CAST

THREE ARTISTS.
THREE WORLDS.

Each artist was chosen not for fame, but for resonance. For what they do to rooms at 2am. For why their music belongs under a 110-year-old tree.

ADDITIONAL ARTISTS TO BE ANNOUNCED · LOCAL HAWAII ARTISTS FEATURED

THE SPECTACLE

300 DRONES.
ONE TREE.

As WhoMadeWho hits peak hour, 300 synchronized drones rise from the garden floor and form the silhouette of the Banyan tree itself — 300 golden points of light, suspended above 5,850 upturned faces. The tree made of light, born from the tree of wood. Captured by 400 phone cameras simultaneously.

DRONE FORMATION MIRRORS THE GREAT BANYAN · SIMULTANEOUS MUSIC SYNC · ZERO PYRO

IN MEMORY · 坂本龍一 · 1952–2023

THE KEYS
STILL SING

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who passed in March 2023, spent his final years obsessed with a single question: what is the relationship between nature and electronic music?

He left his Yamaha piano in the forest for a year. He recorded trees. He said: "The rain is already a great musician." SOLUNA FEST is an answer to his question. DJ Nobu will perform a dedicated set in his memory. The tree will listen.

"I don't want to express emotion. I want to exist in the emotion itself."
— Ryuichi Sakamoto

THE EVENING

EIGHT HOURS.
ONE PROGRESSION.

OCTOBER 31 · 2026 · OAHU, HAWAII

5,850 SOULS.
ONE TREE.
ONE NIGHT.