Entries tagged 'music'
Hawaii Concerts: Jack Johnson @ Kokua Fest 2008
Kokua Festival -- perhaps the least-known, best music festival in the country. Best of all, you can take surf breaks between (musical) sets -- the Waikiki Shell was a five minute walk from big surf during the 2008 fest....
Hawaii Festivals: Mokihana Mele on Kauai
The Garden Isle is still a country cousin compared to the other three major Hawaiian Islands and its signature festival, the Mokihana Festival, is practically a backyard hoedown compared to Oahu's extensive and extremely crowded Aloha Festivals. The weeklong fest...
Hawaii Culture: Must Do: Brothers Caz 30th Annual May Day Concert at the Shell
Roland and Robert Cazimero have been top dogs in the contemporary Hawaiian music scence for three decades and their stellar chops and soulful songwriting and innovative adaptation of older tunes is unquestions. Each year, the Brothers Caz have rocked out...
Don Ho: Mob Ties Overlooked?
Fellow blogger Ian Lind is the only person I've seen willing to write about Don Ho's alleged close ties to a number of Mainland and Hawaii organized crime figures. If he walks like Sinatra and acts like Sinatra, etc. My...
Don Ho: R.I.P. -- Thanks for the Memories!
UPDATE: The Honolulu Advertiser has an enormous and well-done package on Don Ho, a veritble primer on his life and times. Don Ho, who had been suffering from chronic heart disease, passed on today. I was fortunate to catch his...
Hawaii Music: Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival Sold Out Save Pit Auctions
Jack Johnson's annual Kokua Festival on the North Shore of Oahu has become a perennial barn burner for locals and visitors. It is a rare chance to catch both Johnson and Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder in the same...
Eddie Kamae Update: The Man Can Play
After posting a note that Hawaiian music legend Eddie Kamae can be seen playing out regularly at the Elk's Club in Waikiki, two readers (and friends) wrote in or commented to tell me that actually there's a whole lot more...
Eddie Kamae at the Elk's Club: Hana Hou!
We had heard a rumor that Eddie Kamae, the phenomenal Hawaiian musician who was a sidekick of Gabby Pahinui, was playing a semi-regular guest gig at the Honolulu Elks Lodge in Waikiki. It was true. So we went down yesterday...
Don Ho: Waikiki's Original Donald
If anyone of you out there reading hasn't hummed along to "Tiny Bubbles" at some point in you life, then, well, your probably lying! This anthem to cheap champagne entered the musical anthology of America courtesy of Don Ho, the...
Top 5 Aloha Festivals Picks
It's almost September and that means time for the annual Aloha Festivals. The biggest cultural festival in Hawaii spanning all the major islands puts on 300-plus events from small-town Hana to big city Honolulu. It started 60 year ago,...
Mele Hawaii: Fab Lyrics Site
Browing through Digg, I found this site, called Tropical Storm, that has the lyrics to dozens of Hawaiian songs (as in, sung in Hawaiian language). Super handy for kanikapila or just for learning the words to the tunes you heard...
More Music Festivals in Diamond Head Crater
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Jimi Hendrix and other top acts rocked out in Diamond Head Crater, the iconic extinct volcano located just east of Waikiki. A natural amphitheatre with fine acoustics, the crater rivaled Red Rocks, the Shoreline...
