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Ahonui
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 Posted - 05/21/2024 : 11:11:36 AM
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Besides the hula show and Strum kanikapila at the festival, I've been asked to do a Slack Key Guiar workshop on Monday afternoon (Memorial Day), a sub for another workshop that cancelled. Questions, comments, ideas, whatever. Should be fun. I've done workshops for years at Folklife. Good venue to trade licks.
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Ahonui
USA
2168 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2024 : 08:28:43 AM
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| The pipi kaula, pipi stew an' rice, etc. |
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Ahonui
USA
2168 Posts |
Posted - 05/24/2024 : 08:25:54 AM
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| True! There were so many kanaka that came to the PNW to work for the Hudson's Bay Co, that to this day, Canadians are called 'Canucks" (Kanaka). In the Channel Islands north of the border between Victoria and Vancouver, BC, there are still folks who identify as Hawaiian. Friday Harbor on Orcas Island in the San Juans, was named for a Hawaiian nicknamed Friday. There were over 50 Hawaiians working at the HBCo post in Victoria, BC. |
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Earl
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 05/30/2024 : 08:42:04 AM
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| That is my understanding of the slack-key story too -- Mexican vaqueros brought in to teach ranching to the Hawaiians. But I was unaware of the Canadian connection. Interesting... |
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chunky monkey
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2024 : 05:30:27 AM
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| I wouldn't dismiss nor put much credence in any "legend" of how Slack Key originated. There is no historical evidence that Mexican cowboys had any more impact, possibly none, than did the missionaries, whalers, plantation workers, or anyone else who brought music to Hawai`i.There is no doubt about the influence on the Paniolo culture, but it's disingenuous to think that three vaqueros alone in 1830 could have started this. It's like trying to describe who started the Blues or Bluegrass. It does, however, sound like a pretty good story. Unless, of course, I'm completely wrong. |
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Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2024 : 09:40:22 AM
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| Taropatch tuning was (and is) known in Latin America. That tuning insprired an American to compose "Spanish Fandango". The Hawaiians did have chants, and a nose flute and rhythm instruments. The Protestand missionaries introduced hymns (himeni) and some harmony singing (most likely shape note, popular in the US at the time). Iberian style harmony (parallel 3rds and 6ths) came with Mexican vaqueros, reinforced in 1870s by Portuguese bringing also what became "ukulele". After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Ricans came in the late 1890s to work cane as well as Filipinos. Both groups had Iberian style harmonies. The mid-1880s saw the birth and developement of the steel guitar. |
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Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2024 : 1:54:30 PM
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Pardon my mispellings...
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NW Folklife Festival 2024
