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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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 Posted - 06/23/2007 : 8:40:21 PM
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Thanks, Jessie, brought up some really nice aloha in my heart.
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kanakaboy
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 06/25/2007 : 9:58:45 PM
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aloha jesse!
it's me kalae (bobo). remember me? anyway, i just have to say that i'm so happy to read about your experience. it's such a wonderful confirmation to know that i wasn't just going crazy when i first moved to the mainland and saw how different people's perspectives are of what hawaiian music is. you got to see the REAL DEALS and you also got to see that 'ukuleles aren't as common as they are here on the mainland. you got to see ONO music. well, poor me...now i live here in california and die to hear what i've been hearing all my life.
i'm not saying that the music's not good here. it's just NOT the same. even the mac salad is NOT the same here. yet...although there's no place like home, i still love it here in l.a.
anyway, just wanted to say mahalo nui for sharing your experience with all of the taropatchers out there. hope they all get to experience what you experienced. aloha! |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 06/26/2007 : 09:57:14 AM
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Hi Bobo!
I recognize how lucky I am to have had the money to travel to Hawai'i, to have Hawaiian family, to be able to experience a gathering at Kamehameha Schools, to meet and hear great musicians, to kanikapila with uncles and aunties who taught me old songs and to have many great friends at Taropatch.net who love the music enough to let me blather on about it all. One aspect of the experience was that I learned to slow down and learn whatever the kupuna were willing to teach at any given time, and then hold that in your heart until it is time to teach someone else. Many of us are in such a hurry to acquire musical knowledge but it is not always the maoli way.
Bobo teaches the maoli way and hope to learn from him again some day.
Although I enjoyed the music and networking, touching base with family was most important and that has, in turn, affected how I understand the music, for the better. Hawaiians and their Hawaiian-ness comes in every color and mixture and the better I understand it, the more I love the music.
Jesse Tinsley
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