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Pupule
USA
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 Posted - 06/14/2005 : 6:22:45 PM
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Amy Hanaiali`i Gilliom, slack-key guitarist Brian Kessler and dancers from the Polynesian Cultural Center are in China. From the photo, looks like guitarist Chino Montero is there too.
http://starbulletin.com/2005/06/14/news/index2.html
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 06/14/2005 : 7:35:43 PM
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I love cultural cross-fertilizations.
However .... what a market! |
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islandboo
Lokahi
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - 06/15/2005 : 05:17:01 AM
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| My brother is currently in Beijing taking classes for a summer law school program. I sent him over with some slack key CDs, but had no idea there would be an audience for them outside his dorm room! |
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2005 : 05:22:36 AM
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What a market, indeed. Plus, cross fertilization is really big in China right now. There are supposedly over 300 rock bands in Beijing alone and when I was in Shanghai last year middle agers (anyone over 30 and younger than I am  ) ball room dancing under the stars (and sometimes the sun) on the Bund were common. Lots of Filipino musicians in Shanghai, although they tend to play up-tempo pop and rock. There must be a niche for Hawaiian Style, especially kihoalu, in the urban areas of the Middle Kingdom, although it might be too nahenahe for some of the younger set.
Sandy |
Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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Reid
Ha`aha`a
Andorra
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Posted - 06/15/2005 : 07:37:46 AM
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Sarah's brother (a professor of theater at UC Santa Barbara) just got back from teaching a theater course (with a stage production) at Beida (kinda like Harvard, he said of the student quality) in Beijing. He said he had about 400 students (!), all smart, all hard working, although not all had the requisite language skills to perform. But, they all wanted to.
China is affecting us all economically (both good and bad)right now, and will be more and more important in lots of ways as time passes.
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