Bobby Moderow and Maunalua, the award-winning Hawaiian group, were scheduled to play last evening in the lounge at Elks Lodge 616 on Waikiki Beach.

We arrived with friends before the 6 p.m. start, ordered drinks and something to eat, and settled in for the show.

Then came the bad news, followed by the good news.

The Bad: They couldn’t get the sound system working. And after a half hour or so, the musicians started dismantling and packing up their microphones and cables.

The Good News: Then Moderow announced they would be coming down from the stage, pulling up a few chairs, and going ahead with an all-acoustic program. The Elks is already an intimate space, and this made it almost an in-your-living-room experience.

Here are a few photos to give you the flavor.

And to top it off, a woman came up from the audience, spoke to Moderow, and then sang a couple of songs with the group backing her up. It made for a great evening.

It turns out that Momi Joy Lum performed in the Hawaiian Room of New York’s Hotel Lexington back in the 1950s. The venue was a hot spot in Manhattan for 30 years, according to a statement entered into the Congressional Record on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary.

Here’s one of her songs.