Hawaiian Music
Dancing
Cat Records Hawaiian Slack Key Book
"Ki ho`alu, which literally means
"loosen the key," is the Hawaiian-language name for
this unique finger-picked style."
Gabby Pahinui
It is hard to overstate Gabby's importance to the best of Hawaiian music. He died in 1980, before our first trip to the islands in 1988, so I mostly know of him from his recordings , his videos, and meeting his late son Cyril in 2015.
The Pahinui Family & Friends
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Big man's music lives on
Iz's
fans not alone in world
Israel Kamakawiwo`ole: The Voice Of Hawaii
Tribute to
"Bruddah Iz"
"Kamakawiwo`ole recorded three songs that night
... "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World."
It's the last song -- a snapshot of the artist at his
gentle, poignant best -- that has come to redefine the way
the world listens to Hawai`i and to elevate Kamakawiwo`ole
to unprecedented success some five years after his
death."
Somewhere
Over The Rainbow
E
Ala E
Hawai`i
78
Ledward Kaapana (Dancing Cat
archived) :
"Perhaps most importantly, Led blends his
virtuosity with an infectious joy for performing, a generous
spirit and a kolohe (rascally) sense of humor."
(Led Dancing Cat
current)
LedKaapana.com
July 5, 2017: Kennedy Center Millenium Stage
June 24, 2011: 2011 NEA National Heritage Fellow
Led Kaapana and Konabob at Pahala Workshop '06
A Prairie Home Companion January 5, 2002
A Prairie Home Companion October 12, 2002
I ain’t never heard you play no blues
(Ledward's manager asserts that Ledward plays blues sometimes, but I wait to hear that for myself.)
Vintage
Hawaiian Music -- The Great Singers: 1928-34
If I could own only one Hawaiian CD, this might be the one.
It had been very hard to find, apparently due to a distributor
bankruptcy, but now seems to be available again.
Tau and Rose Moe
Family
Kalama's
Quartet
"The Kalama's Quartet was what Hawaiian music
was supposed to sound like, falsetto, tenor and bass voices
singing in harmony, punchy guitar and uke with two steel
guitars weaving musical leis for the ears."
Lei E Hula
Biography by Craig Harris
Hawaiian
Steel Guitar Classics
Sol Hoopii - Master of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar (Rounder
5672)
"Sol Hoopii's music is where traditional
Hawaiian music meets American jazz."
Dennis
Pavao
"formed the legendary Island trio, Hui Ohana ,
along with his cousins, Nedward and Ledward
Kaapana, and he was instrumental in the renewed popularity of
the male falsetto voice (known in Hawai`i as "ka leo ki`eki`e")."
Hui Ohana at party for Tina Kaapana
Hui Ohana at 1986 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards
ki ho`alu - That's
Slack Key Guitar (DVD)
"The story is told not by a narrator, but by
each musician telling their story in their own words
..."
I treasure getting to visit with
Genoa Keawe
through the years at her weekly residency at the Waikiki Marriott.
E Mama E
Among My Hawaiian Souvenirs
Johnny Noble
Keawe ‘Ohana
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