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Auntie Maria
Ha`aha`a
USA
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 Posted - 11/24/2003 : 10:40:24 AM
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Nice article about Keola Beamer and slack key, in today's Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
http://starbulletin.com/2003/11/24/news/story5.html
-- auntie maria
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AuntyD
Aloha
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Posted - 11/24/2003 : 10:10:27 PM
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Mahalo e Auntie Maria for this article's URL. I saw the article is sourced to Pa~hoa, my homevillage. How sweet that the teaching of ki ho`alu, thanks to Keola and Aunty Nona Beamer, has returned full circle to that little corner of Moku o Keawe (Island of Hawai`i).
In the 1960s, Uncle Fred Punahoa taught the young Led Ka`apana the art of slack key -- and playing with his teeth, feet, taps, hammer-ons and paper bag-swathed arm -- in Kapa`ahu, Kalapana, just southwest of Pahoa. I have sweet memories of Led, Ned, cousin Dennis and their brothers and sisters bringing their 'ukulele -- and occasionally guitars -- to school and playing their hearts out during recess and after school, as they waited on the steps of the Pahoa School gym for the blue bus to take them back to Kalapana. What we took for granted then!
Recently, when I watched Makana playing The Punahoa Special in my adopted hometown on the mainland, I was awed by Uncle Fred's far-reaching influence. His ripples have proved to be ever-expanding. The teaching goes on from Uncle Fred to Led to Makana to ...
Hau`oli Lâ Ho`omaika`i (Happy Thanksgiving) to you and yours and all here in the lo`i (taro patch):
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/6794/o-thanksgiving.html
Me ka Mahalo,
Aunty D http://hawaiianlanguage.com |
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duke
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 11/26/2003 : 6:44:58 PM
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Aunty D--
Your thanksgiving page made my day. Mahalo for sharing that!
Duke
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