Hawaiian Concert Guide Show 670 - Baked Alaska Too

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On tonight's show, we share Shane Cahalihau's new album, Ka'onohi'o Kala.

Harmonica, harmonica, chromatica.

All that and hot Hawaiian tips right here on Hawaiian Concert Guide, show number 670, Baked Alaska 2.

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And welcome to another Friday night Concert Guide edition of the Hawaiian Concert Guide.

And today is August, Ki Rumba August the 16th.

2024.

And this is show 670.

Aloha, Kako.

670. Aloha, aloha, blah, aloha, rada, teri, Eastern Birra chief.

Ooh, hey, it's been a few weeks here again. Sorry guys.

Yeah, life got in the way.

Yeah, it sure does.

The death of the family.

Yeah, Purvis Minor, log in.

So much more.

Yeah, mahalo'opiko.

Yeah, well, you know, I think it's just, you know, it's, I ran back off to Florida again, folks, yeah, so, yeah, so, and then Florida had ransomware, and so they couldn't produce death certificates for weeks, and it's just, it's been a bit of a nightmare, but we're back again.

Again.

Yes, so, yeah, so, and then, and then stuff is happening again.

Yeah, what are you doing with your people this time?

So, because our kids are homeschooled now, one of the options available to us is to take the kids on trips or cruises that we can use as educational opportunities, and so Vivian is, has been a travel agent now for just about a year,

and

so she is getting us hooked up on some amazing travel deals, and so she set us up with this really awesome pan-pacific cruise going from Southern California all the way up to Alaska over to Japan and then up to Korea, and then we'll do a trip around Korea for about a week or so, and then we'll all kind of head back home after that, but, yeah, so,

Wow.

Wow, that's quite a trip.

Right, so, and so as part of this, you know, Gabriel is in high school, and part of his high school requirements is he has to take some sort of humanities, foreign language class, and he actually decided that for the school year, rather than continue with the Spanish, which he's been doing for years, that he actually wants to switch to Korean, and then, so then he was like, okay, here we go.

And so they have been getting into it hot and heavy, and actually Vivian's been doing it too.

she's been wanting to learn some korean so now both of them all day long they're chitter-chattering

in korean back and forth just to try and learn and remember as much as they possibly can

and gabriel's even doing all of the hungul the written language as well he's getting that kind of

well underway so he can be able to start being able to read some of the the writing on signage

and things like that so yeah so so the education is continuing we'll be doing uh yeah lots of

things to learn and then uh actually even uh johnny's going with us too he's actually starting

school college his junior year and some of his schooling he'll be doing remotely on the cruise

so he'll be attending college remotely on the cruise as well and then gabriel's got

school work that he will be doing

as well during the cruise and then you know so i'll spend mornings doing uh educational things

and i'll be doing like what i've been doing i'll be doing uh consulting work like i do and then

and no radio shows uh while you're cruising yeah unfortunately that would just be way too hard to

try and carry everything we're already going to carry for it's about three weeks yeah i want to

know absolutely absolutely that's the next show a month away so you'll be doing all that and i'll

you'll be there until the end of july 2nd so you know if you hardly understand anything you get

ahead of it you'll be doing the show again i'll be doing it again i'll be doing it again in july 2nd

so yeah and i think that's that's the last thing i'll be doing and then the last thing is

this month is the last thing that's happened so we're going to be doing the next week is the new

foreign exchange students we'll have valeria from madrid spain will be joining us on thursday or

excuse me wednesday the 21st and then on the 20th i have sofia from the southern calabrian area of

So, I'm going to be running around Chicago, giving them a bit of an experience.

Another Chicago River boat ride out into the lake, which was really cool this last time.

It's the first time we've ever done that.

Well worth doing it again.

So, we're going to have some fun with the girls, show them around.

The company that I work for gives you what they call VTO, volunteer time off.

And it allows you basically three days a year to volunteer for a non-profit.

And the organization it brings the girls over is also a non-profit.

Oh, so I qualify.

Yeah, I got it approved that I can use those days to show the girls around.

And a little bit of culture, a little bit of Chicago-style pizza, which is not Italian, by the way.

But it's deep dish, right?

It's deep dish, yes.

I love Chicago pizza.

I haven't had that in ages.

I was joking with them.

You know, the girls are days away from leaving their country.

And so, they're all sort of, you know, sad, but excited, and all those kinds of things before they leave.

And I said, yeah, it's very understandable that, you know, you're going to miss all your relatives, that they have a big family.

At least Sophia has a very large family.

And I said, but think about it.

You know, the stories are going to be great.

And you're going to be able to tell when you get back in 10, 11 months from now that, you know, about these strange Americans that put pineapple on their pizzas.

Oh, stop.

Come on.

It's Hawaiian style.

No, which is actually Canadian, by the way.

Yeah.

I love pineapple.

It was first discovered in Canada.

So good.

But she says, well, you know, don't tell me.

Blame Canada.

Sorry.

Blame Canada.

Don't tell anybody that she's got a very Italian uncle who likes pineapple on his pizza, too.

There you go.

See?

And we converted Vicki last year.

Universally accepted.

Yeah.

I love pineapple on my pizza.

That's right.

So it's, sorry about that.

In fact, here, you know, you take your Chicago deep dish and you sprinkle pineapple on it.

And that is, mwah, shit's kiss.

That is a pizza.

Adds a little bit of sweet to that.

Yeah, it's a smudge.

Yes.

I must admit.

I do like my house and pineapples from time to time.

But I do have an allergy to fresh pineapple.

There's an enzyme in it.

There's an enzyme in it that actually doesn't.

That's the reason you don't typically find preserved pineapples, preserves and those kinds of things.

It's not easily done because the enzyme keeps it from, you know, gelling.

And so if it's been cooked, I can eat it.

But if it's raw, I get the fuzzy throat thing.

Oh.

It's not so much anaphylaxis, but it is, you know, that's the only thing I know of that I'm allergic to.

Holy cow.

And I love it so much.

I mean, I'll make myself sick eating all that pineapple.

So you can have it, but it's got to be cooked pineapple, right?

But on the pizza or something.

Yeah.

Okay.

Wow.

So Smuckers and a few others do make pineapple preserves.

They cook it and I don't know how they neutralize the enzyme and allow it to gel and that kind of stuff.

Okay.

Yeah.

But I, yeah, there's, there's like three jars of it out in our pantry because, but I'll use it for hams and all sorts of other kinds of things.

So.

Well, I've got six of them growing right out in the front yard.

So hopefully one of those.

I tried.

I, I always wanted to do that.

Yeah.

And, um, we grew some when we lived in California, we grew some and they grew really massively large.

They were getting ready to blossom and we moved.

So that ended that.

Oh, yeah.

Um.

My brother-in-law's neighbor in St.

Pete, Florida had about four pineapples growing in his side yard that you could see in the perfect little beautiful shaped pineapple until the squirrels got to it.

Yeah.

You got to put it in a cage.

Munger in cages right now.

Partly for animals and partly for humans.

Hopefully.

You know, the sad part of all that is that you still grow pineapple in the islands, but they don't can it commercially anymore.

Yeah.

Uh, Dole is still there.

You can go to the, you know,

you can see the pineapple field, but again, it's Maui golds and those kinds of stuff that's usually sold to the tourists or locals.

Um, it's just not like there used to be a lot of things you think of the wine isn't macadamia nuts.

Aren't Hawaiian, you know, those kinds of things.

Yeah.

Australian, I believe.

Um, so yeah.

Yeah.

So yes, it's, it's going to be a busy month.

I'm building a new studio in the basement.

Just.

Uh, a fabulous studio with a guest seating as a guest audience seating stage system.

Yeah, believe it or not.

Yeah.

You can have a live band down there.

Oh yes, I could.

I'm actually wiring it, uh, you know, 20 amp.

So we'll have plenty of power, multiple circuits.

Yes.

It's going to be done nicely.

You have a concession booth outside selling popcorn and drinks.

Well, there is a home theater going in.

Just a couple off to the side of that, which I'll be soundproofing, but, uh, there is, uh, it's plumb for a bathroom.

So the bathroom is going to go in with tub and all that kind of stuff.

So ticket, but I'm going to run the water to the back of, uh, right behind the home theater.

So yeah, there will be a concession stand popcorn.

Um, my son works for a food concession company.

And, uh, so I'm going to get one of those icy machines and margarita machines.

The big ones.

Yeah.

So, so, so Hawaiian concert guide will be recorded before a live audience.

Yeah.

There you go.

For the first time in a long time.

Yeah.

I don't get too many, you know, occasionally I'll get George Kahumoku Jr.

Coming through town.

Jake will come through town.

Right.

So, yeah, I may, I may have to put them up.

I'll have to offer accommodations for a concert for our show or something like that.

That would be cool.

That would be fabulous.

Bring, uh, the Makani girls up from Chicago.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, Kaleo and, um, but they just recently, I saw they put something out.

I haven't, I got to go look, see what it was, but, uh, yeah, there's some neat stuff going

on there.

Speaking of neat stuff, I, and I'll start with an apology.

I haven't updated the calendar in a little while, but if you were to go check out hawaiianconcertguide.info,

you'll find lots of stuff out on our calendar still that we've been putting up there for

weeks and weeks, including a lot of kind of capilas.

Um, there is, uh, the surf city strummers and over in, uh, what was it?

Long beach.

I'm trying to pull it up real quick here over in Huntington.

Excuse me.

Yeah.

Well, the beaches and sand, sun, water, you know, that kind of stuff.

It's next door.

You're close enough.

Oh, okay.

Island Bazaar ukuleles.

They, they have a number of, of events going on.

The surf city strummers, they have beginners nights.

They have.

All sorts of really, really great fun.

And, uh, I, I believe you said something about going to visit that site yourself to see what

it looked like.

Yeah.

You know, of course this was the original home of the Kolohe ukulele club, which still

is, is going along.

They are still going strong.

In fact, they just did a show, uh, just this last weekend.

I'm a part of their Facebook group and they, uh, they still perform all over the place

and it's still, uh, led by Doug Ramsey, who, uh, who took over when I stepped up.

So, uh, I'm a part of the Kolohe ukulele club and, uh, I'm a part of the Kolohe ukulele club.

So, um, uh, a very old friend of mine, uh, who is now suddenly retired, he, uh, he sold

his auto, uh, automotive transmission repair business, but retained the building very smartly.

So he leases it out.

So he has this very cushy retirement going on and he called me up, uh, a few, uh, months

ago and he says, Hey man, I'm, I want to learn how to play ukulele.

Can you help me get going?

I said, yeah, man, let's do it.

And so, yeah.

So he's been over here a few times and I've been giving him some lessons and we've been

talking about kind of ukulele to play.

And then I said, okay, we need to make an homage over to Island Bazaar because they

have an amazing selection of ukuleles.

The entire room of the showroom there is surrounded by just about every kind of ukulele you can

imagine anywhere from 50 bucks to 3000 bucks.

You can just fine tune your budget.

And there's some really nice, nice ukuleles.

There's a bunch of ukulele over there.

And so we head over and we met up with Shirley Orlando, who is the owner and operator there.

And we joined the Surf City Strummers, which meets on Sundays, uh, there at two.

And it was great to catch up with some of the folks who I still remember and they still

remember me.

Uh, but then also most importantly, uh, to see Shirley again.

And at first she was gum, gum swaddled and was like, what, who are you?

Oh, he called me.

Um, but yeah, so we got caught up really quick and then, uh, we, uh, joined in with their

ukulele group.

And then, um, my buddy spent, uh, a couple of hours there looking at all the instruments

with one of the, uh, sales clerks.

And then I joined in with the, the Strummers group and then actually Shirley invited me

to, uh, go up on stage and sing one of the Hawaiian numbers.

And so I did.

Ulupalakua.

And, uh.

And, uh, that was great fun just performing again.

I hadn't sung like that on stage in, I don't even know how long, 10 years, 12 years, 15

years.

Wow.

That's a long time.

That, but that was really a blast.

That all came back, all the parts, all the harmonies, yeah, that was, that was great

fun.

And, and, um, so my, my buddy, uh, chose an ukulele, he bought a Kala, uh, uh, kind of

a tenor size ukulele.

And it looks and sounds great.

Yeah.

It sounds great.

And, and he is super charged and he is ready to move forward in, uh, this new hobby of

his learning how to play ukulele.

So we're going to start getting together more often and we're going to try to get some of

our other buddies who are now also retiring to see if they can come out and come hang

out over here so we can do some more, uh, ukulele, uh, cross training and, and fun times.

Yeah.

So in other words, you'll put me up if I suddenly show up, you know, with my ukulele, one of

those sessions.

You got it.

I'm, I'm resembling that retired, uh, group here, possibly.

Yeah, man.

Come on now.

Might even have a spare bed.

Uh, Jonathan's going back to college in, uh, by October, I think is when his, uh, rental

is going to be ready.

Uh, so after that, he's going to be, that room's going to be empty, I think.

Well, I may bring six, uh, exchange students along, you know, for the ride.

Yeah.

That's going to be tough.

Yeah.

I think Vivian would have a heart attack.

Me too.

Oh, no.

It sounds like wonderful.

Yeah.

Check out the Huntington Beach.

Yeah, definitely.

Island Bazaar, man.

If you're even just kind of thinking about getting into ukulele, they, they do have the,

uh, beginners group, which I don't remember what day is that, Mondays or something, but

they, they meet all regularly and it's the perfect opportunity to very, very nice people

that, that come out here and they're just full of aloha and they just really want to

share what they're doing and just have a pleasant time and really just hang out together and

play, uh, music on ukulele.

Surf City Strummers is not strictly a Hawaiian group.

It's more kind of hapahauli, but then also just like regular stuff too.

They do like jazz standards and things like that.

So it's, it's not strictly a Hawaiian group, which is, I think Kalohe is more of a Hawaiian

group.

But, uh, yeah, great, great opportunity if anybody's thinking about, you know, in the

Huntington Beach, Southern California area and thinking about getting into ukulele, I

highly recommend it.

Yeah.

The Island Bazaar Ukuleles.

But that's not the only place you can find on our calendar that does these kinds of things.

We have the Norco in Norco, California as well, over there, uh, they have on, well,

for example, on Tuesdays, they have the.

We have the Makua Kane or Wahine hula classes from six to seven.

They got beginner hula from seven to eight on Tuesdays.

And then, uh, so you, you can go learn hula and those kinds of things as well.

Um, I know there is also one at the end of the month, there's a monthly up in the Bay

area as well.

The Odd Fellows Hawaiian over in Cupertino, uh, Odd Fellows Cupertino Lodge 70, uh, over

in Cupertino.

That's in the Bay, South Bay area.

So they're playing music jam sessions as well, um, on a monthly basis.

Uh, this next one's the 28th of August.

So go check that out as well.

Um, um, there's still a few other concerts on our, and I got a list of things up on my

screen here.

So I'm going to read a few of these.

On the 25th, we have the Ho'ohamana mini concert going to be going on over, uh, San Jose, um,

4th Street Bowl in San Jose.

So go check out that.

They've got four CDs out there, so they're no doubt, you know, you'd be able to pick

up a nice CD, some really great music.

On the 31st of August, uh, we have the Aloha Beach Festival in Ventura.

So that's actually starting on the 31st, that's a Saturday, Sunday, that's the Labor Day weekend.

So you might want to check that one out in Ventura as well.

Surfers Point Shoreline Drive.

Um.

So, but if I look around some, you know, try to do this by region a little bit, Jake Shimabukuro

looks to be on a bit of a hiatus right now, but he could back September 5th, right after

Labor Day weekend over in Hopewell, Virginia.

He goes on the 6th of September into Easton, Maryland.

On the 7th of September, he's in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The 8th, he's in Alexandria, Virginia.

And then on the 9th, he's in Philadelphia.

And then.

And then the show dates just continue.

Jake just recently put out more of a blues album, um, you know, he's, he's, looks like

he's merging away, he's doing all the Hawaiian, he grew up with the Hawaiian.

He actually, um, raises money as well as provide ukuleles to a lot of the schools in Hawaii.

Um, but now he's beginning to dabble in all sorts of other kinds of music.

He was doing flamenco for a while and now he just released a blues album as well.

So there's all sorts of stuff out for, for Jake.

It's, it's a ukulele kind of thing.

Uh, I've seen Jake a number of times and it's, the shows are always just incredible, but

it's called Blues Experience.

Jake Simubukuro and Mick Fleetwood.

So that's a matchup that's, that's going to be, that would be really good CD.

I may pick it up myself here shortly.

Um, let's see, what else do we got?

Las Vegas is coming up.

Um.

In August.

The Summer Concert Series, let's see, Capena, uh, backing up, they don't have it in sequential

order.

Uh, Capena is going to be on September 21st over the, their Virgin Hotel and Casino in

Las Vegas.

And I'm scrolling down now through all of this.

Kayla Beamer is going to be there in January, January 25th at the Smith Center of the Performing

Arts.

So, you know, you might want to check, check that one out on your calendar so you don't

miss Kayla Beamer.

He's been around for a long, his family is iconic in Hawaiian music as we've been talking

about.

We're actually playing one of his CDs a little bit later on in the show.

Um, they have Las Vegas Three Day Sacred Lomi Workshop.

Hmm.

That's the interesting one there.

Um, Learn to Hula.

They got a number of Learn to Hula classes.

August 17th, um, is going to be, that's tomorrow, it's going to be a little late now, but that's

over at Enterprise Library.

Learn to Hula.

The 24th of August, they have a Learn to Hula, it's 1030 to 1230.

And then they have September 7th.

I imagine if I could look out a little bit further, you probably have a number of Learn

to Hula.

So, you know, I mean, Hula is not just for, you know, the, well, women, it's men, it's

children, it's, it's, uh, and a lot of great exercise as well.

Um, I wish I had the knees for it, unfortunately.

Um.

I, uh, not that my knees are hot, it's just they're firefighting and EMT, being an EMT

really played a havoc on my knees over the years.

Um, if I look out in Florida, the Hawaiian Luau and Live Music at the Plum, Pludge Beach

Resort, August 28th, over in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.

That would be a cool one.

Uh, Hawaiian Luau, August 21st, at Clement, Florida.

John Cruz.

Now, John, John plays a lot of music.

He plays a lot of music.

He plays more traditional music, um, but he's got a deep, deep Hawaiian roots.

He supports a lot of Hawaiian artists and, um, Hawaiian up-and-coming people with recording,

studio, time, and all those kinds of things.

So, if, uh, you know, listen to a little bit of John Cruz if you like it.

I got a number of his albums that he's autographed for me over the years.

He's gonna be at the Blue Jay Listening Room in Jacksonville, Florida, August 17th.

Whoops.

I'm gonna be there tomorrow, or for me it's in an hour.

Um, Hawaiian Luau at The Villages in Florida, uh, August 23rd.

Um, there's all sorts of other events coming up for Florida.

Let's see, what else do I have up here?

Um, California.

We have all sorts of other kinds of things.

We have the Ho Ho Mana Hawaiian Band Mini Concert that I mentioned before, August 25th.

Ohana Festival, September 29th, over in Dana, Florida.

They're finally at the on point point.

And there's, they're covering a little bit of everything.

Ventura's got the Aloha Beach Festival.

Uh, August 31st, through September 2nd, Labor Day weekend.

Uh, then we see Spam Jam, the seventh, uh, Which is gonna be in Los Angeles.

Spam Jam is a spam festival in Hawaii, is something to be seen, for sure.

Um, and, a lot of really good food uh, see.

Hawaiian.

August 18th, which is in a couple days here, Aloha Hawaiian Barbecue in Sausalito.

Slacky Ohana, September 29th in Temecula, California, at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater.

Slacky Ohana.

So there's all sorts of wonderful stuff.

Let's see, the last one I'll throw in here, there's the Aloha by the Bay up in San Francisco.

It's going to be August 17th.

That's again tomorrow.

Sorry, guys.

Let's see what else we have up here.

Oh, back to school.

How about this?

In Arlington, Virginia, there is a back to school Hawaiian ice party.

We're talking about shave ice here.

It says, stop over, chill with us in our shave ice soda party.

August 29th, 1 to 5 p.m.

And that's over in Arlington, Virginia.

So that's coming up at the end of the month.

It says, join us for a fun.

Fill afternoon with shaved ice and specialty sodas.

We have Cocos again and wildly popular Hawaiian ice and specialty sodas.

Feel free to bring a friend and have some fun.

So there's that in Virginia.

All over.

Everybody's getting into the act, it seems, today.

Looking up in Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, August 24th, third annual Oregon Aloha Festival.

Saturday, 7 p.m. on August 24th.

That's in Eugene.

We also have a Holoholo Music Festival in Tacoma, Washington, on the 9th of November.

You know, 9th of November here in Wisconsin, it would be under snow, unfortunately.

But we'll see how that goes.

October 5th, the annual Eala E Hula Exhibition.

Which is going to be in Beaverton, Oregon.

Masters of Hawaiian Music with George Kahumoku, Jr.

is going to be at the Alberta Rose Theater on September 26th.

Again, all of these will end up on our calendar over a little bit of time here.

But there's a few things.

Kalani Pea, excuse me, December 6th.

It's going to be over in Beaverton, Oregon.

So it just means these guys are on tour and I just got to find the rest of their tour schedules.

And I'll get them.

I'll get them posted up there for you.

So there's a sampling and check out our Concert Guide page at hawaiianconcertguide.info.

And it's going to be, I'll get it back up to chock-full of just about everything imaginable.

Anything I missed there, Pico?

Yeah, you know, so I got an email from our good friend, Jim Kimo West.

He has a new album out that he recorded in cooperation with a guy named Joss Jaffe.

And the name of the album is called Santi, S-A-N-T-H-I.

And he sent over a link that will play some samples.

Oh, so.

You can hear that Indian influence.

So it's a series of samples and there's no volume controls.

I have to kill it.

Anyway, so it says here, Santi, the Lana McGuigan album from Kimo and Joss is out today.

We'd like to thank the following stations for playing them.

The physical CD will be available from Kimo's website, jimkimowest.com.

As well as from Bandcamp.

For those of you in the L.A. area, our record release show will be with our Grammy Award winners, Opium Moon and Masood Ali Khan.

It is Sunday, this Sunday, 7 o'clock in Venice.

Everyone who buys a ticket gets a free CD.

Woo-hoo!

There it is, right there.

Exactly.

So the songs follow in the footsteps of our last album, Am Aqua.

Which was a play on words combining the Hawaiian word amakua, which is a spirit animal, and then the Sanskrit word for om.

This album features the slack key guitar along with Indian tablas and African nangoni instruments, but also introduces the handpan, tuned tabla tarang, and other melodic percussive instruments as well.

So it's an interesting mix of Hawaiian and Indian musical instrumentation.

I think it's all instrumental, though.

I don't think there's any singing.

Although I know Kimo can sing.

He does choose not to.

He did my first live guest ever on Hawaiian Concert Guide dang near 20 years ago.

It was Kimo.

He came all the way down here to the studio, and he did sing one song, and it was cool.

It was really awesome, but he does not usually sing.

No Gorky Cup involved.

No, and he has a deeper kind of a gravelly voice, but it came out really cool when he did it.

I'll have to go find the recording and play it one of these days.

Anyway, so that's...

Yeah.

So then the show, August 18th.

Yeah, so sorry, this is going to be two days hence, so you guys probably won't even see this.

We'll get it into the calendar anyway.

Just Jaffe and Jim Kimo West with Opium Moon and special guest Masoud Ali Khan doing a performance at The Lab, 14-0-24 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, this Sunday.

It doesn't say what time, so who knows?

Contact the venue for more details.

And then the other, I got a nice message from our good friends of the show, Kurt Scott and his daughter.

Amazingly talented.

Madison.

And Makana Ukaku Scott has a new album out.

What an amazing and prolific artist this young lady has been recording Hawaiian music for years now.

And this is her latest release.

This is an all-Hawaiian album, and all of the music is all-Hawaiian language, and all written by her.

And she has been studying the Hawaiian language for, I think, at least 10 years now.

It's been quite...

Quite, yeah, quite a long time.

And so she has become very prolific at the Hawaiian language.

She can speak natively now.

And quite often they'll go visit the islands, and they'll go visit some immersive schools,

and she'll walk in and start conversing with the students.

And they're massively blown away that this young lady can not only sing and play a piano beautifully,

but also can speak Hawaiian language.

And I have the entire album.

It's called Lei Hiva Hiva.

And it is out to some extent now.

It says available from Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, and Deezer.

I don't know if there's going to be a physical CD.

I try to hold out.

I think Madison has performed with nearly every professional Hawaiian artist that there is.

They have a tendency to tour the islands and visit everybody and sing.

And play and just have a good time.

Yeah, so here's some samples of some of the songs that are on the album.

Here's track one, Kei Akua.

Kei Akua

Iku'u ku'a nani

Makamai no o'u e

He nani no ku'u ala

O'u naona ika'i o

Eiku'u ku'a

Wow, she's really showing a lot of maturity these days. This is great.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Eiku'u e

Ku'a nani

Makamai no o'u e

He nani no ku'u ala

O'u naona ika'i o

Eiku'u ku'a

Yeah, that's great.

Okay, so we'll work on getting this album downloaded

and we'll try to play it into our normal rotation

once things get progressing.

Damn, we got another new album this week

with Shane Kahalehau.

You know, who won some of the Nahoku Hanamano Awards.

Retea Helm has a new CD as well.

It's in our cube.

So we've got some really great music coming up here

as we finish off a couple CDs here in the next week or so.

All right.

And did we do it?

We probably should play some actual music, right?

Yeah, well, that's time.

I mean, we got Sean's coming.

To be honest, I had to look up Sean.

He's actually a radio personality for Maui Radio Station.

And so this is his first venture into a CD.

It's only, what, five tracks long, I think it is.

But he won the Nahoku Hanamano Award

for the most promising artist of the year.

And so you'll soon hear why.

He DJs at KPOA 93.5 on Maui, the Aloha Morning Show.

Okay, well, let's get things started here with Brother David Jay

as we kick it up to feature the Hawaiian music on the show.

You are listening to the Hawaiian Concert Guide.

Your host, Pico, provides you with the best in contemporary

and traditional Hawaiian music.

Now back to your number one destination for island music.

Here's Pico.

All right, thank you, Brother David Jay.

Okay, let's pick it up here with new album this week,

Shane Kahalehua.

No, Kahalehau. Wow, okay.

And this is Kaunohiokala.

Track one.

Inikinikimalie.

Waikapu.

E Maui e.

Makani Kokololio.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

Waikapu.

E Maui e.

Makani Kokololio.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

Wailuku.

E Maui e.

Makani Lavemalie.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

Waiehu.

E Maui e.

Makani Hohehaili.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

Waiehu.

E Maui e.

Makani Kilihohohu.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

E Maui e.

Haina.

E Maui e.

Maianaka tuhuana.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

Haina.

E Maui e.

Maianaka tuhuana.

Makani Hohohili.

Inikinikimalie.

I know inúp the long high.

No.

Same here.

It's going to be fun.

Speaking of Maui,

I did a little bit of research and

again,

we love going to the Islands.

If I can go there every year I would.

But with all of our Exchange students in the

last few years...

two of our exchange students again one from italy one from spain uh we wanted to do it again this

year but i'm not sure i'm going to be able to find a space for six six of the exchange girls

and then my wife and i so eight people on the island it's like brady but um yeah well i started

looking around all the islands for a place but uh this would be interesting they range from

everywhere from at that time it would be 15 to 18 years old um but one of the things i i did run

across was the old banyan tree in lahaina um it's it's probably been a long time since you've been

uh to maui but the the banyan tree is just uh just seared into my memory it's just incredible

um in the part well it says the 151 year old banyan tree is doing

fine a year after the devastating fire it's it's got leaves it's looking well it's uh forming fruit

on some of the branches and so uh it is it is uh looking good it's not out of the out of the woods

yet so to speak yeah tree out of the woods um but it's been a year august of 2023 it was that

devastating fire where over 100 people died in lahaina and it's just it's incredible the tree

itself is 150 years old

and they've they've fitted it with 16 sensors around the tree to be able to monitor excuse me

14 sensors around the tree to you know watch the the movement of the sap in the tree and

make sure that it's doing perfectly healthy and it lost all its leaves and so that's how

it produces food so they were you know really afraid that the thing was going to go so they

had fed it they were feeding it like five to ten thousand gallons of water a day

try to keep it you know hydrated they really went out of their way and it's responding really

really well right now so the iconic banyan tree appears to be able to come back and it'll be the

center of lahaina really once they continue to build around it and that kind of stuff i want to

go back and see it again i really do it's just not going to be the same lahaina was like yeah all the

buildings are coming yeah justngedim

yeah it's just the all the old wood the old hawaiian because it was an old whaling well one

it was the original capital city for hawaii um two it was an old whaling town as well because of its

location between molokai lanai and maui it was a safe harbor and a lot of the whales come in and

those kinds of stuff so it was a whaling town originally there's some whaling museums and those

kinds of things so incredible place but uh it was really good to see that the tree is coming back

super super fascinating that there's but you know still there's a sad aspect of this whole

thing and that they're not getting anywhere near the support from the federal government in fema

after all of this mess to help them get back on their feet so there's a lot of

a lot of people that are very

upset with how things are going how they're being treated over there so

hopefully uh cooler heads will prevail and and some support will come you know there are people

who who are still prevented from even going back to their own homes even though they're not actually

damaged but they're all being blocked from re-accessing their their property that they own

so that's it's a very weird political

scenario going on

there yeah yeah it really is really is and don't let that stop you from going back to the island

maui needs your support just to get a lot of don't go to line up yeah yeah yeah and uh there's a

lot of other places on that beautiful island to go to you got haleakalā uh and you got Hana and you

have lots of beautiful places to go and they they they live off of tourism that's their main industry

in the in the islands um and so they need you to come they they opened up their doors relatively

quickly there was a lot of criticism over that as well but uh you know you need a healthy island

to bring back lahaina it'll just never be the same but uh you know we'll see we'll see how that goes

all right let's do some more of this okay so that's the new album uh starting uh with this

show and uh we're going to continue that album through completion here over the next few shows

in the meantime we have a few albums we've been featuring for a while next up is uh kalama okawai

this is songs of nathan kalama volume one no less and uh quite a few tracks we've already spent so

far this now is oh here's track three sorry so this is mark yamanaka a nice hero boy and this

is this kapua

E ho'i mai ka ua

Ka pua hālahi nāno

O lau e nani e

O he'a male'o e

E ho'i mai ka ua

E ho'i mai e pili

Pili pa'a ke aloha

Me ke aloha pau o lai

O he'a male'o e

E ho'i mai e pili

Pili pa'a ke aloha

Me ke aloha pau o lai

O he'a male'o e

Me ke aloha o ya'o

Sweetness

Ulu wehi wehi a'u

Me ke ia lehi fa'i a

O he'a male'o e

Me ke aloha pau o lai

O he'a male'o e

Me ke aloha pau o ya'o

Sweetness

Ulu wehi wehi a'u

Me ke ia lehi fa'i a'u

Ha'ina ka puana

Puana mele aloha

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

He'a ka pua hala hinano

Aloha o ya'o

Aloha

Yahweh

Ahu

Ahala

Hina

Nice

That's the kind of stuff

I love to hear

Yeah, it was really, really beautiful

Now I believe, you know, Mark

is like a 14

time Nahoku Hanohano

award winner

He has won many, many awards

and so

incredible artist

I remember the time I was walking

through Waikiki, it was Spamfest or

something, back to the Spamfest

which is August

but

I heard this voice, you know

as I'm walking down the street

and I immediately recognized Mark

Yamanaka, who's up on stage

and he brings out one of his children

and

to be with him on stage

in that kind of an environment

it's just incredible

I also believe that, you know, when you

go to these kind of concerts, buy their CDs

when you can't have them, autograph them

because that's where they make the most money

I believe

isn't Mark a car salesman?

Yeah, that's his day job

He sells cars

That's his day job, you know

and then the beautiful music

Kupo Owa is a big supporter

of Mark and helping recording

students

studio time

and Lee Howell and Kellen

do a lot to help bring his career along

so really, really great stuff

Yeah, his album

The Pua Kinikini, that is such

an amazing album

if you don't have that already

go get it, man, it's available everywhere

iTunes, Apple Music

Amazon Music

all of those things

Pua Kinikini

So speaking of Kupo Owa

they're next up on the same album here

the Kalama O Kaua'i

the songs of Nathan Kalama

this is Gingers in the Water

by Kupo, here we go

Gingers in the water

full of sunlight rays

palm tree kie'ke'e

waterfall cascades

gingers in the water

reflections met for two

shadows disappearing

and visions then of you

ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Gingers in the water, pool of sunlight rays,

palm tree kiekie and waterfall cascades.

Gingers in the water, reflections

meant for two shadows disappearing.

And visions then of you.

Nā pua avapuhi, māloko kawai.