A new hip-hop and R&B music festival is coming to Oahu, giving island fans a big-name concert experience without flying to the mainland.

• Love in Paradise debuts September 12 at Wet 'n' Wild Hawaiʻi, put on by local company Audio Playground.
• Headliners include Lloyd, Keri Hilson, and Soulja Boy, plus mainland and local DJs.
• Two stages sit inside the water park — one on the grounds, one above the wave pool — and tickets include access to the rides.
• Two pre-shows featuring Jay Holiday and others run at the revamped Hawaiian Brian's, now HB Social Club.
• The festival taps millennial nostalgia for early-2000s R&B, a genre seeing a live-music comeback.

Outlook: Organizers hope the debut draws island crowds and becomes a recurring event so locals no longer have to travel for major festivals.