THEY SAID NO TO THE OVERTHROW

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I have come to realize that the degree of proficiency in anything, including songwriting, guitar playing, engineering and producing is in direct correlation with usually high amounts of time spent improving the skill. Once acquired, it needs to be additional time invested to just stay in the status quo.

In my songwriting consciousness, I continually search out new musical styles in any language to study rhythmic patterns, chord structures, vocal phrasings, and arrangement nuances. I’ve noticed that the current songs don’t draw in the listener like the older song arrangements. The intros into the first verse seem more like a plastic drum fill salad. There is no musical hook, some catchy instrumental melody or just breathing space the listener can grab on to from the beginning. I’m not bashing anything, only observing society-accepted changes. Seems that in a world of fast moving information, the listener wants to get down and dirty, sans the romantic lead-in; let’s skip introductions, what do you have to say to me.

As I have stated, I put in a lot of time listening to new sounds in order to keep pace with the current happenings. I do have style preferences, but I enjoy all kinds of music because I respect all forms of self-expression.

For every style there is someone out there who can relate. It’s that sympathetic vibratory physics thing that goes on in our energy fields. I have this acquaintance that doesn’t really care for the stuff on the radio but listens anyway. She was driving down the road, heard this singer emoting this song, started crying and had to pull over to regain her composure. She had no clue who was singing, what the name of the song was or anything else, so she later sang a bit of the melody to her daughter who immediately said it was a song called 100 Years by the group 5 For Fighting. Songs resonate in people, allowing their senses to truthfully overwhelm their physical being. This is the beauty of a song, the essence of life, the power of the human spirit.

Face it, I’m in the intangible business of moving air; how nuts is that!

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HAWAIIAN SACRED PLACE GONE WITHOUT A TRACE ON VOICES OF TRUTH – ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I’S FUTURE

It was one of those places you drive by all the time and never notice.

Overgrown and completely hidden, Hawea heiau sat there for hundreds of years until developers came along with plans for condominiums on the site.

That’s when Kaleo Paik and others knew they had to spring into action.

And that’s also when Kaleo saw Pahua, another ancient heiau sitting at the end of a dead end street in a Hawai`i Kai neighborhood – but completely and beautifully restored.

Having the largest fishpond anywhere in Hawai`i and once anciently home to thousands, Hawea will sit silent no more.

Join us on our amazing adventure as Kaleo takes us to see both heiau - Hawea before restoration, and Pahua as an example of what can be all this week on Hawai`i’s award winning Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future.

MONDAY, June 7th At 6:30 PM – Maui – Akaku, Channel 53
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"Moving Mountains – A Visit With Kaleo Paik"

“Listen to what the land has to say, because it will speak to you.” Those words kept coming back to Kaleo Paik as she contemplated the task of restoring Hawea heiau, one of Hawai`i’s ancient wahi pana, or sacred places. Kaleo shows us Pahua, a breathtaking heiau from 1400 AD completely restored today and reveals the surprising connection between the two. Don’t miss our amazing visit with Kaleo where you’ll get a real feel for what it was like to be in ancient Hawai`i - Watch It Here

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Moku O Keawe Foundation hails Na Hoku winner Zane

Posted on 2:08 am, Saturday, June 5, 2010. Tags: kuhao zane, moku o keawe

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The Moku O Keawe Foundation is pleased to announce Advisory Board Member Kuhao Zane has won the 2010 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Graphics, for his work on the album “Polinahe,” by Lorna Lim (Palm Records).

The title track from Lim’s CD also won Song of the Year, at the Awards presentation by the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts in Honolulu Sunday, May 31.

Zane, 28, is the son of designer Sig Zane and Kumu Hula Nalani Kanakaole, who are also Advisory Board members. He and his parents helped establish and continue to support the Moku O Keawe Hula Festival, which takes place each November at the Waikoloa Beach Resort.

Already an accomplished dancer and designer, the new Hoku-winner runs two companies of his own: Ethnic Creative and The Cutlery in Hilo.

The Moku O Keawe International Festival is sponsored by the Moku O Keawe Foundation. As a private nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing, enriching and educating the practice and development of hula and its associated arts, its focus is to build, strengthen and inspire the living cultural traditions of Hawaii.

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HAWAIIAN EDUCATOR WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD

Doctorate Dissertation Recounts First Encounters Between Nawaiians & Missionaries

Brandeisnow - April, 2010

For the third time in the past decade, a Brandeis doctoral dissertation has been judged the best in the nation by The Society of American Historians.

Noelani Arista, an Irving and Rose Crown Fellow who will be awarded her PhD at the university’s commencement in May, has won the 50th annual Allan Nevins Prize for her interdisciplinary thesis, "Histories of Unequal Measure: Euro-American Encounters with Hawaiian Governance and Law, 1793-1827," which she defended in December.

Arista joins an illustrious cast of past winners, including such luminaries as William Freehling and Mary Beth Norton. She also joins two other Brandeis Crown Fellow winners: Jeff Wiltse, PhD'02, won in 2003, and Jessica Lepler, PhD'07, in 2008.

“I feel very honored to win this distinguished prize, especially because my goal was to be able to write a dissertation about Hawai`i and early encounters between Hawai`i and the US in a way that brought Hawaiian history to the attention of the main stream of American history,” Arista said. “That a dissertation that emphasizes Native (Hawaiian) history was awarded this prize I believe is significant.”

Arista, who currently teaches in the History Department at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, says it was her academic background in Hawaiian culture and language that made her feel at home at Brandeis. “I felt that Brandeis with its own cultural and historical traditions would be a good fit for me in this stage of my development, and I have found it to be a culturally diverse and rich place of seeking after knowledge, a Hawaiian cultural value known as `Imi Loa," Arista said.

Arista was interested in illuminating this unequal history because she felt that American approaches to the study of Hawaiian history have always been written in English language sources and methodological assumptions. It was her goal to draw upon both English and Hawaiian sources to tell a different story about the transformation of Hawaiian government during this period.

“I argue that Hawaiians have their own conceptualization and reality when it comes to history and the interpretation of events, and also make the point that not only linguistic, but cultural literacy is central to telling this history well,” Arista said.

Maika`i!

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