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Topic: Steel Guitar Week at the Halekulani Hotel |
Derrick Mau
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 1:48 pm |
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I called the Halekulani Hotel about the annual Steel Guitar week which is normally held in the 2nd or 3rd week of September during the Aloha Week Festivals. The hotel said the event was cancelled. No reason was given. Lack of steel players? Hotel cut-backs?
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Rick Alexander
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Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 2:39 pm
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That's not cool - what's their number?
Let's all call them!
RA |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 4:21 pm
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| Alan Akaka usually coordinates this event with the Halekulani. I'll have to find out from him as to what happened. |
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Kevin Bullat
From:
Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 6:20 pm
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| Last time me and my wahine were at Halekulani, saw Greg Sardinha and his group. Man, that braddah can play. Nice guy too. [This message was edited by Kevin Bullat on 25 September 2005 at 07:20 PM.] |
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Kevin Bullat
From:
Huntington Beach, CA
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 6:24 pm
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It kills me to see a lack of steel guitar in the islands. I don't understand. It's their instrument. You hear nothing but that Jawaiian Reggie stuff and top 40 this and that.
I sometimes feel as though we, typically white folks, are the torchbearers for a soon to be gone aspect of Hawaiian culture.
What a shame...[This message was edited by Kevin Bullat on 25 September 2005 at 07:25 PM.] |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 6:38 pm
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| Jerry Byrd told me this all started happening when the new money people hired all German managers for their Hawaiian hotels.... They didn't care and even tried to screw the musicians out of the money they had earned. How about that for diversity? |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 25 Sep 2005 10:55 pm
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Ray wrote, and Jerry also informed me... " all started happening when the new money people hired all German (sic "food")managers for their Hawaiian hotels.... They didn't care and even tried to screw the musicians out of the money they had earned. How about that for diversity?"
...Right on Skip ! We have been going to Hawai'i for some 25 years and have noticed in the past 5 years the deterioration especially in what they did to Walter Mo'okini, Jerry, Kalani Fernandes, and a host of other great names who were let go. The "House Without a Key" seems to have changed its policy from the good olde days. They used to support the steel guitar.As steel guitar fans, we used to be able to just wander in, select any table at random, sit under the big tree and enjoy. Now we have to register at their hallway entrance. Is this all because of 9-11 and the posibility of insurgents raiding the place ?
Ja-Waiian is really a "nothing" music and personally, I hate the the stuff...(generally a 3 chordal structure), whereas pure Hawaiian music played on the steel guitar takes patience, study and skill plus real talent from which many young locals prefer to cop out and do it the easy way with used oil drums. I wonder if in Jamaica they now play Haw-maican music ?
I recall having great difficulty finding pure Hawaiian music played in the open at small shops, on the beach or on the sidewalks...everywhere we went we encountered those damned steel drums ! Is THIS is now the REAL Hawai'i of 2005 ???? Come on, all you local musicians....rise up and put a stop this trashy Ja-waiian. It is NOT your music and certainly the valued tourist industry from whom you derive the majority of your economy doesn't travel thousands of miles to romantic Hawai'i to hear so-called Hawaiian music being played on discarded oil cans!!
 [This message was edited by George Keoki Lake on 26 September 2005 at 12:08 AM.] [This message was edited by George Keoki Lake on 26 September 2005 at 12:10 AM.] |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 26 Sep 2005 9:29 am
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These managers may be German, but the hotels are owned by Japanese.
It would seem that because the Japanese people love Hawaii, and Hawaiian music, that an appeal could be made by letter, phone calls, e-mails to the Japanese owners. This might do some good.
Or maybe peaceful demonstrations in front of their hotels might get their attention.
Enough of this kind of suppression of true Hawaiiana. 
What do you think about this input?
Aloha,
Don
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David Yannuzzi
From:
Pomona , New York, USA
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Posted 26 Sep 2005 10:13 am
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I went there mid Aug and caught a set by the Aloha Serenaders.It was great
I am not sure who the steel player was
Anybody know?
There was a some little drizzle/rain and the most beautiful rainbow .Of course I forgot my camera that night.
When I called to see who was playing they said they had steel guitar music almost every night.-Dave
[This message was edited by David Yannuzzi on 26 September 2005 at 11:16 AM.] |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 27 Sep 2005 12:05 am
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I believe that would be Lem Aweau or Paul Kim playing the Hawaiian steel guitar. They alternate.
You can know for sure, David, if you come to the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Convention in Joliet. Paul Kim is the featured guest artist. He will sing Hawaiian falsetto and play steel.
Aloha,
Don |
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Todd Weger
From:
Safety Harbor, FLAUSA
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Posted 27 Sep 2005 6:46 am
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Hawaiian Steel Guitar Convention...
...in Joliet.
[This message was edited by Todd Weger on 27 September 2005 at 07:46 AM.] |
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Gerald Ross
From:
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 27 Sep 2005 12:21 pm
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Todd, Yes the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Convention is in Joliet, which is considered the Eastern part of Hawaii. 
There is also a HSGA convention every other year in Honolulu which is the central part of Hawaii. 
By the way, my bumper sticker says Hawaiian Steel Guitar Assn. goes around the world!!!
Aloha,
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Derrick Mau
From:
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 27 Sep 2005 4:40 pm
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Dave,
The Aloha Serenaders perform on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The group consists of:
Harold Hakuole (guitar) Heyleen Woodward (bass) and Paul Kim (steel guitar)
Lem Aweau subs in for Paul on the steel when Paul gets called away for Coast Guard duty. |
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Jeff Strouse
From:
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 27 Sep 2005 6:53 pm
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| Lem plays a D-8 Fender and has a really sweet tone. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 27 Sep 2005 9:10 pm
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| Don K. Woods...........my bumper sticker says the same thing! |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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