If you’ve spent time roaming the streets of Waikiki, chances are you have encountered Streetlight Cadence.

Playing some old-school and rarely seen instruments, including accordions, foot percussion and violin, band members Chaz Umamoto, Brian Webb, Jonathon Franklin and Jesse Shiroma have taken Waikiki street performance to a new level. Streetlight Cadence has built its fan base by performing on the tourist destination’s busy street corners, engaging locals and tourists alike with affable indie-pop.

Saturday, the band performs twice in a “farewell for now” to local fans. After a handful of other appearances (check the band’s Facebook page, fb.com/streetlightcadence, for announcements), the guys are going to Los Angeles to further their career.

Recent milestones for the band include a tour to Japan, an appearance at the Kauai Music Festival and a successful Kickstarter fundraising effort, to the tune of $20,000, to fund production on the band’s upcoming third album, “Beyond Paradise.”

In 2014, Streetlight Cadence took home the Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Alternative Album of the year, for “Kalakaua Avenue.”

Hawaii Public Radio, host of their farewell show, gave some background on the players:

» Blond-haired, Kansas-born violinist Franklin grew up in Houston, and came to Honolulu’s Hawaii Pacific University on a full music scholarship.

» Shiroma, who plays accordion and foot percussion, grew up in Hilo. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a double major in history and German, and proved his love for the accordion by spending a year abroad in Germany working for Hohner, his favorite accordion manufacturer.

» Kalihi boy and guitarist Umamoto graduated from UH-Manoa, where he studied writing.

» San Diego-born Webb, a curly-haired cellist with a wide grin, is an HPU grad.

In advance of their leap to the mainland, we spoke to Umamoto.

STAR-ADVERTISER: Tell us about your Na Hoku award-winning album, “Kalakaua Avenue.” What was your songwriting process like?

CHAZ UMAMOTO: Our previous album, “Kalakaua Avenue,” was named in homage of where we’re from. Being the band that played on the sidewalks of Kalakaua for the last five years, we thought it was fitting to name the album after the place where the music came together. In our songwriting process, we charge each member of the band to write one song each per week. We then take the best of these songs and perform them for our test audiences on the streets. Over the course of time, we figure out what songs work and which ones are not appealing to total strangers.

SA: Your next album is to be called “Beyond Paradise.” Tell us about the album, and your plans for the band.

CU: The title “Beyond Paradise” was chosen as a point toward where we are now going. We like to assume every album could be our last and (consider) how their titles engage future interviews. The majority of our fans have been collected on the streets of Waikiki, so naturally they do not understand why we as musicians would choose to leave Hawaii (paradise) in order to pursue a career elsewhere. The band has come to a crossroads, where we know we can continue to play more private functions and make a decent living as performing artists — but truly, one of our goals is to grow as recording artists. We want to see if we really have what it takes to survive where the action is, in L.A. This month we will be closing up shop and moving to Santa Monica.

A total of 40 songs have been written for “Beyond Paradise.” As a band it was really important to us to record a new album with the best quality of songwriting … a necessary step we must take in order to make an album that will stand the test of time and hopefully get some radio airplay nationally.

Of the 40 songs, we will choose the best 15 to record and release. One of our Kickstarter rewards allows fans to receive all 15 singles as they are completed before mastering, on top of the mastered digital and physical album prior to the commercial release date.

SA: I like your style — 40 songs is a high number to choose from. Tell us about some of your favorite songs that have emerged from the writing process.

CU: “Rooftops” — this song is for those who never thought they would encounter true love. … When it happens you can’t help but express it everywhere you go. This song is the first example of what the album could sound like. “Rooftops” has already been released on ITunes, Spotify, Amazon, etc. YouTube videos can be found of us performing this track with the HPU Orchestra and at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards.

“Summer” — what album is complete without a summer anthem? But we wanted to focus on a universal summer song that can be sung and used throughout the year. “She makes it summer all over again” is sung throughout the choruses. This particularly track also has backup vocals done by our good friend, singer-songwriter Dustin Pacleb.

“Roger’s Song” — this is a song off of our very first album, “Thinking of You.” There’s been great demand over the last three years for us to rerecord this song, with our live arrangement. “Roger’s Song” is a true story about a college friend of Jonathon’s who would drunk-call him at 2 a.m. every night. Note: Roger is just a pseudonym, and although the song chronicles a very depressing true story of the man, he is doing all right.

“Runaway Satellite” is an old title of a song the band used to do back in 2011 with original member Daniel Duncan. But the current version has been rewritten and re-inspired by the movie “Interstellar.” The song talks about a man (a farmer) and the love of his life (an astronaut) who leaves him for the opportunity to explore the great unknown, only to find in the end that her love for him was the true “final frontier.”

“Don’t Let Go” is a mash-up of Pachelbel’s “Canon” with some original lyrics. We really wanted to write a song that represents our classical training as musicians.