Hawaiian Arts &

Cultural Series

Presents

Uncle George Kahumoku Jr
Uncle George Kahumoku Jr, with opener, Nāmaka Cosma

Filmed at the live performance held on Friday, February 11th at 7pm.

PLEASE NOTE: The videos appear in TWO PARTS that run one after the other in our Vimeo Player.

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Music by Uncle George and opener Nāmaka Cosma, with a Talk Story session with both artists.

 

There’s a reason he’s been called Hawaii’s Renaissance man: George Kahumoku Jr. is a multiple Grammy Award winning master slack key guitarist, songwriter, world-traveling performer, teacher, artist, story-teller and writer, farmer and entrepreneur. He hosts a weekly show on Maui called George Kahumoku Jr’s Slack Key Show: Masters of Hawaiian Music. Around all of this he cultivates taro and raises sheep on his upland Maui farm.

 

Nāmaka Cosma is an upcoming Hawaiian artist (guitarist and vocalist) based in Maui. Her father was Pekelo Cosma, a renowned slack-key guitarist and Nā Hoku award winner who was born and raised in Hāna, Maui. She grew up surrounded by Hawaiian music, at the young age of three she was running up on stage to sing with her father. Nāmaka is now a Hawaiian Studies major and a graduate of the Institute of Hawaiian Music program at UH Maui College. She plans to follow in her fathers footsteps through learning the art of kī hōʻalu with her uncle Kevin Brown, and pursuing her passion of singing traditional Hawaiian mele.

 

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This Series has been made possible in part by a grant from the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Series do not necessarily represent those of the Hawai’i Humanities/NEH.

 

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Celebrated trio Kūikawā

Filmed on Sunday, May 15, 2022

Celebrated trio Kūikawā perform as a part of our Hawaiian Arts and Culture Series. Talk Story with our host and Cultural Consultant, Keola Donaghy.

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Kūikawā is comprised of Joshua Kulhavy-Sutherland, James “Koakāne” Mattos, and Lukela Kanae. They met in 2016 as students in the Institute of Hawaiian Music at the University of Hawaii Maui campus. As avid fans of Hawaiian music and lovers of good harmony, they quickly formed a group and began to play their favorite songs, attempting to copy the arrangements of their idols (Makaha Sons of Niʻihau, Brothers Cazimero). Since then their musicianship has grown and they have begun to gig frequently around the island of Maui. You can find out more about this talented group at KuikawaMusic.com

 

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This Series has been made possible in part by a grant from the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this Series do not necessarily represent those of the Hawai’i Humanities/NEH.

 

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Lono Music
Lono Music

Filmed at a live performance on Saturday, April 23rd at 2pm.

Celebrated musician Lono traveled from Moloka’i to join us for our Hawaiian Arts and Culture Series, including a Talk Story with our host.

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About the artist: “During my 20 years on Maui I recorded 6 albums up at Melodyline in Pukalani with Tom Hall. The first 5 were island style; then we moved to traditional Hawaiian. Myself, Eddie Kamae and Richard Hoʻopiʻi played for the Kaunoa Seniors throughout the islands. We have a total of 9 albums in the Hawaiian, 5 in the island style, and 2 live recordings– 1 here and 1 in Chicago. All recorded during my time as Lifeguard at Kamaole 1 Beach Park and at the opening of Makena Beach. Now here on Molokai we completed 7 more Hawaiian albums of Molokai history and events.”

You can find out more about this talented group at LonoMusic.com

 

 

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Traditional Hawaiian Carvings by Master Craftsman Kenneth Hiraoka
Traditional Hawaiian Carvings by Master Craftsman Kenneth Hiraoka

Filmed on Sunday, May 15, 2022

Exhibit now on display and a 30-minute documentary on the artist is now viewable as Episode 1 of our Hawaiian Arts and Culture Series.

 

In-person viewings can be scheduled at 808.463.6550. Artwork available for purchase, with all proceeds going directly to Uncle Ken.

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Uncle Ken has over twenty years of experience in his craft and has exhibited throughout the islands, including at the Maui Ocean Center, the Celebration of the Arts Festival at Kapalua, the Andaz Maui, the Made in Maui County Festival, Maui Hands, and as a part of the Juried Exhibitions of Hawai’i Craftsmen at the Honolulu Museum of Art School. He has been featured in the Maui News, Maui Nō Ka ʻOi” Magazine, Maui Today TV, and Maui Now, among other outlets. He has also taught Cultural Arts at University of Hawaiʻi Maui College.

 

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Made possible in part by the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.

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Lono Music
Kathy Collins Storytellers Evening

Filmed at the live performance held on Saturday, March 19th at 7:30pm

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Kathy Collins joins our Hawaiian Arts and Culture Series for an evening of storytelling, both as herself and her beloved character, Tita

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This Exhibition, a part of our first presentation of our Hawaiian Arts and Culture Series, has been made possible in part by a grant from the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.

 

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