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Ken
Aloha
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 Posted - 05/19/2005 : 06:49:10 AM
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Aloha Andy and All kiho'alo fans!
The Slack Key Preservation Society is preparing to schedule concerts and workshops in locales where there is an interest in kiho'alu.
After reading the thread concerning Portland, Eugene, OR performances, I believe that concerts/workshops in Oregon may be in the works for those area. Please contact SKPS, if you believe a concert and/or workshop in Oregon locales would be beneficial for the furtherance and enjoyment of kiho'alu.
In addition, anyone who thinks that there is enough interest in slack key in their area (anywhere in the U.S.)to schedule a teaching workshop and/or a concert should contact SKPS at: ken @ skps.org.
The Slack Key Preservation Society is a non-profit, public benefit corporation, classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity, whose purpose is the preservation and furtherance of slack key and Hawaiian cultural traditions. For more information regarding SKPS, see the website at: www.skps.org
Mahalo,
Ken Armstrong
The Slack Key Preservation Society
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
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Posted - 05/20/2005 : 10:55:04 AM
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Ken,
Is this your baby? Never heard of SKPS before JeffC mentioned it last week. I like the idea, but as i mentioned, in my neck of the woods, Alaska, we need to first have a Slack Key What-the-heck-is-that SOciety. THEN, maybe we can preserve it.
I am surprised nobody has posted a reply to your interesting message. You did ask that folks wold email you directly, but I have some questions that others may also wonder about. When you say "anyone who thinks that there is enough interest in slack key in their area", just what constitutes enough interest? two years ago i was negotiating with Keola Beamers agent to come to Faribanks for a concert, guitar workshop, and hula workshop. I put together a list of over 30 people who were ready to sign up for the guitar, over 50 for the hula workshops. That deal fell through, but the slack key concert with Dennis K., Cyril P., and Cindy Combs 15 months ago was a sell-out (OK, it was part of a concert series, but the folks loved it). We have a very active acoustic music promoter in town and she brings up lots of great acts (Greg Brown, Kelly Joe Phelps, Guy Clark, Patty Larkin to name a very few).
We also have a fellow in Tok, a little burg about 200 miles south of here, with maybe a population of 1500, who has a nationwide acoustic music show on the radio. He (Bud Anderson)too, brings up some of these folks, and getting anyone coming here on his radio show alerts the attentive listeners and concert-goers in our area to these events.
We have a wonderful hula instructor here who comes from the big island and wold be quite helpful alerting the island folks in the area as well.
So, what does it take to get something oging?
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Fingerpickin
Lokahi
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Posted - 05/24/2005 : 07:25:22 AM
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Ken,
You're off to a great start with your website. Keep up the good work in spreading this music everywhere. Not a day goes by that I don't thank the good Lord that I live in Hawaii; but we do need to share this with the entire world.
I think that everytime we play a song for someone new, we are in essence serving as ambassadors for Kihoalu.
Keep up the good work!
-Lance |
"Hey Lance, try watch." -Ozzie |
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