Folkies in Hawaii?

Subject: Folkies in Hawaii?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 21 Dec 99 - 10:57 PM

On another thread some time ago somebody mentioned a pub in Lahaina, Maui, where live folk music happens. I've lived on the Big Island for 5 years and haven't gotten to Maui yet, though I hope to go soon. But I'd like to know, are there any other Mudcatters or other folk music types in Hawai'i Nei? You can send me a personal message if you don't want to go public and risk having folks invite themselves over. (If anyone wants to invite himorherself to Hilo, let me know.)

Mele Kalikimaka, Hau'oli Makahiki Hou. (Merry Christmas, Happy New Year -- I don't know if there's a Hawaiian word for millennium)

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Folkies in Hawaii?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 21 Dec 99 - 11:23 PM

Aloho Mark
Do you play the ukulele?
Eventually I would like to buy a vintage ukulele.
I have a funny story for you. Recently I spent two weeks on the Big Island near Pohoiki. I took some interesting looking lava rocks home. I know the Goddess Peli is not happy when her lava is removed.
After I came home, I felt so guilty about taking the rocks, that I mailed the lava back to The Godmother Restaurant in Pahoa.
I had a great meal at that restaurant and hoped they may be kind enough to put the lava back.
I bought 2 CDs there I really enjoy
Manaolana by John Keawe and Mauna Kea by Keola Beamer
I enjoy Hawaiian slack key guitar
I also have an exhusband floating around Maui somewhere.
He changed his name from Lenny to Lion and fell in love with a girl named Tiger. (But we won't go there)
I also met some very interesting people in Pahoa to say the least.
Did you know it is cheaper for me to buy macadamia nuts here?
But the guava bread, oy, it taste like pink challah.
All the best in the New Year to come,
Bonnie

Subject: RE: Folkies in Hawaii?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 Dec 99 - 11:42 PM

Hi Mark, the Pub mentioned is the Pioneer Inn. It was more bluesy but it was the local liveaboards that hung out there that played folk/bluegrass/old timey/shanties music. Drop Drake Thomas, of Lahaina Wielding, a line he's the builder/designer of the Hawaiian Chieftain & a great singer of shanties & a pretty fair musician, there's also a family run catamaran business (at least a couple cats) where one of the brothers is a fine singer & musician. The rest I don't know where the winds have blown them since, I'm going back better than 20 yrs but there were quite a few musicians hanging out there then even though 3 of them jumped Island with me to sail across the Pacific. Happy Hunting, Barry

Subject: RE: Folkies in Hawaii?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Dec 99 - 12:07 AM

Thanks so much for the leads, Barry. I'll find a Maui phone book and give Drake a call. Boy, do I miss playing backup guitar for oldtime fiddle and banjo tunes. I left Seattle right after I'd learned how and never got back to it. I also really miss singing shanties. Maybe on Maui... I'll let you know if I find something.

Bonnie, I would also love to buy a good ukulele some day. No, I don't play but plan to learn. I am also trying to teach myself slack key. By the way, it's not too well known outside the islands that the word is pronounced oo-koo-lay-lay, not you-koo-lay-lee. It's generally translated "jumping flea", supposedly because of how the player's fingers move. But when a mother wants me to treat her child's "uku's", she's not talking about fleas, but rather an 8-legged critter. I guess "jumping louse" would upset the tourists a little too much.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Folkies in Hawaii?
From: Callie
Date: 23 Dec 99 - 12:41 AM

Anyone know the song "Kawaipunahele"? A friend put it on a tape for me and I like to sing it but I don't really know what it's saying or whether it's an old song or new.

Callie (Australia)