 Kumu Hula and Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner Uluwehi Guerrero is this week’s guest on Pakele Live! with Tony Solis. Celebrating the release of his 3rd album (“Uluwehi Sings Na Mele Hula Aloha - beloved hula songs”), Uluwehi ("growing in beauty") will also bring some members of his award-winning hula halau (school), Halau Hula Kauluokala, to perform.
Awarded Best Male Vocalist honors for his second CD, “In My Heart,” at the 2001 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, Uluwehi’s first two CDs were nominated for Na Hokus a total of seven times. This long-awaited third CD may very well add to his list of nominations and awards. Nearly one hour in length, “Uluwehi Sings Na Mele Hula Aloha” includes some rarely-recorded traditional songs, some old-time favorites and some originals. All are sung in Hawaiian, with Uluwehi’s own rich, warm vocal harmonies.
In addition to his Na Hoku award, Uluwehi has won top honors at several falsetto competitions throughout the state of Hawai’i. And the man apparently never sleeps – here are just a few of his accomplishments: he teaches ’ukulele; has a large and talented Hawaiian choir; has judged many hula competitions in Hawai´i, the mainland, and Guam; has given popular hula workshops throughout Hawai´i, North America, the Pacific basin, and Japan; contributes his time and talents through concert performances to help numerous local organizations in their fund-raising efforts; and has lent his time and incredible musical and vocal arrangements to other recording artists, such as Keali´i Reichel and Lei´ohu Ryder of Maui.
Uluwehi has also performed for different halau at the Merrie Monarch Festival; was a Special Guest Soloist for the sold-out holiday concerts with the Maui Symphony for four years; has performed with the Honolulu Symphony as a special guest for their Pops Concert Series; has performed at Carnegie Hall; and is a choreographer and designer of hula attire. He has been critically acclaimed from California to New York, Canada to Japan. His large-scale solo Maui concerts in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 were all sold-out, standing-room-only gala events. He is a true cultural ambassador of Aloha.
Please join host Tony Solis in welcoming special guest Uluwehi Guerrero to the Pakele Live stage on Thursday, Sept. 10 from 6-8 pm at the Ala Moana Hotel (410 Atkinson Dr., Honolulu). It’s free, (no cover/no minimum), all ages are welcome, and there’s free parking next door at Ala Moana Shopping Center. Drinks are available for purchase.
If you can’t be there in person, watch live online at http://www.pakelelive.com/
Those in Japan can watch at: http://www.j-wave.co.jp/
You may email the show at pakele @ lava.net – mention your name and where you’re located - city, state – or country, if outside the U.S.!
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Uluwehi Guerrero at Pakele Live!
Posted - 09/09/2009 : 11:58:03 PM
