This is a nice throw back. 1975. Bill Lincoln and a very young Alan Akaka on Steel Guitar. Also Kauana Pukahi and James Papa
I’m almost 66 and could lose a few pounds, but otherwise healthy. Have been looking forward to my post-work years, however many years that is, but it’s getting very difficult to remain hopeful about the future.
Seeing a round of posts about to do apps again. Seems to cycle around every now and then. I haven’t change my set up in at least 10 years.
I’m not a gamer, so I came to “Last of Us” via the series. One of the attractions was Pedro Pascal. Regular shows don’t kill off the hero before the end, but this isn’t a regular show.
The first recording of Hawaiian music. 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The Royal Hawaiian Troubadours perform “Aole Wau E Paoina Iaoe”.
Came across this old Hawaii PBS show from 1980 with Charles K. L. Davis. What a talent.
If you’ve never heard the origin story of the song Heha Waipi’o that was the song Hālau Nā Kamalei o Līlīlehua performed in the Merrie Monarch `Auana lat night.
This was chicken skin by Hālau Nā Kamalei O Līlīlehua last night.
With all of the attention on Hilo, Take some time and watch this PBS Hawaii profile on Hilo from 1988. I fondly remember this era of Hilo. www.youtube.com/watch
Hālau Mōhala ʻIlima ‘Auana was so elegant. Love the choice of Alii ‘Iolani
When were driving to Hilo this morning I saw so many trucks with OC-1s on top heading to Kona. On the way back home this afternoon, we saw the same thing going back the other way. That was me for 20 years.
Since I started study old Hawaiian music I understand where these song we hear all of the time came from. Who wrote the song and when, who first recorded it and when. Most of the songs being danced to in Merrie Monarch are the same. In my head, I hear an earlier version in head.
Hālau Mōhala ʻIlima (My Daughter’s Halau) is doing “Alii Iolani” for their ‘Auana performace. I love that song. The Makaha Son’s version is popular, but I think they are more likely to use something closer to the John K. Almeida 1925 version.