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The 2013 Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila
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ALOHA NO! Please join us for the Sixth Annual Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila!
More info at: www.GabbyPahinui.com, Cyril Pahinui on Facebook, and Gabby Pahinui on Facebook
WHAT: The 6th annual GABBY PAHINUI WAIMANALO KANIKAPILA is a gathering of musicians to celebrate and perpetuate Hawai‘i’s unique musical identity and to honor Gabby Pahinui’s contribution and acknowledges the musical heritage of the Waimanalo community. This free event featuring more than 150 of Hawai‘i’s best musicians and hula dancers also includes: community organizations that have educational and informational booths, music workshops, cultural demonstrations and displays, lomi lomi massage, food booths that support athletics and community groups, and some craft vendors. At: 41-741 kalanianaola Hwy Waimanalo, HI 96795
WHEN: Saturday, August 10, 2013, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Slack Key and ukulele Workshop on August 9, at 1:00 at the Waimanalo Beach Park Pavilion
WHERE: The GABBY PAHINUI WAIMANALO KANIKAPILA is held at the Waimanalo Beach Park where Mayor Fasi dedicated the pavilion in Gabby Pahinui’s name the park is located near the Waimanalo Hawaiian Homestead community where Gabby lived with his family.
COST: The Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila is FREE and open to the public. The event is supported through t-shirt sales. T-shirts are available for purchase at the event or in advance online at gabbypahinui.com.
WHY: During Gabby Pahinui’s life, weekends at the Pahinui home in Waimanalo were a continuous jam session, hosting dozens of musicians, both young and old, who came by to jam with “the Master.” Memorable guests included slack key masters Leland “Atta” Isaacs, Sonny Chillingworth, and Ray Kane, along with David “Feet” Rogers, Joe Marshall, Aunty Jenoa Keawe, Jessie Kalima, Palani Vaughan, and Peter Moon to name only a few. With a welcoming pot of beef stew and rice always on the stove, his Waimanalo home became the perfect setting for a rejuvenation of Hawai‘i’s musical traditions. As Gabby’s fame grew, attendance at the weekend jam sessions mushroomed — sometimes hosting a hundred or more musicians and fans. The jam sessions would begin early on Friday morning and continue straight through to Monday morning.
During the early 80’s, Kanikapila sessions were again founded at “Pop’s” Gabby Pahinui’s namesake Waimanalo Park Pavilion to feature and perpetuate Gabby’s contribution and his Hawaiian style kiho‘alu-slack key music. It has long been the dream of the Pahinui Ohana to acknowledge Waimanalo as a focal point of Kihoalu and Hawaiian music by reestablishing these musical gatherings and their ability to perpetuate, and preserve the uniqueness of Hawai‘i’s musical identity. And most importantly to recognize Gabby’s contribution at the pavilion dedicated in honor of him and everything he stood for.
The Pahinui Ohana along with the Na‘alehu Theatre, and the Waimanalo community, feel that Gabby “Pops” Pahinui and everything that he has done for the State of Hawai‘i, the City and County of Honolulu and the renaissance of Hawaiian music, language and culture played an important role in our past and continues to play an important role in our present. We strongly believe that by presenting the Annual Gabby Pahinui Waimanalo Kanikapila we will preserve and support a thriving Hawaiian Culture, Hawai‘i’s continued music industry growth and our unique identity as a world-class destination while, at the same time, developing and strengthening community pride and partnerships among Ohana, Community Organizations, Businesses, and Government Agencies.
CONTACT: Please feel free to contact me with any requests or questions by phone: 808-722-8575 or email: cyril@cyrilpahinui.com
Maps:
Lineup for the day includes:
MCs
- Billy V.
- Kimo Kahoano
- Jackie Skylark Rosetti Laau
Pule
- Rev. Herbert Sniffen
Performers
- Maka‘ala
- Bernard Kalua
- Barry Kimokeo
- Alika Odom
- Ryan Tang
- Halau Mele Hawai‘i O Pahinui
- Kawika McKeague
- Frank Colburn
- Cy Irvine
- Roy Nakamura
- Sean Robbins
- The Carmen Haugen Quartet
- Keith and Carmen Haugen
- Ron Miyashiro
- Frank Uehara
- Kaiholu
- Nathaniel Mahealani Stillman
- Hanale Ka’anapu
- Al Roland
- Kanakapila
- Ben Kaili
- Victor Chock
- J.J. Ahuna
- Dwight Tokumoto
- Jeff Petersen
- Dennis Kamakahi
- Doug Fitch
- Moon Kahele
- Lance Takamiya
- Ricky Hana
- Olomana
- Jerry Santos
- Haunani Apoliona
- Wally Svenaga
- Hi‘ikua
- Kamuela Kimokeo
- Kalehua Krug
- Blake Leoiki-Haili
- Mike Kaawa
- Greg Kekipi
- Analu
- Jessie Kalima Ohana
- Kaliko
- Zac
- Nikki Hines & Friends
- Alan Akaka
- Gary Aiko
- Momi
- Sherrie
- David Kahiapo
- Dean Willhelm
- Walt Keale
- Michael Keale
- George Kuo
- Dickey Boy Cantohos
- Bo Cortez
- Bla Pahinui
- Peter Moon
- Jeff Au Hoy
- Patrick Landenza
- Donald Kauwila
- The Aloha Boys
- Isaac Jesse Waipulani Ho‘opi‘i
- Irv Queja
- Glen Hirabayashi
- Greg Sardinha & Kailua Bay Buddies
- Gordon Freitas
- Rick Gonzalez
- Makapu‘u Sand Band
- Albert Kaai
- Ken Fischer
- Ray Fuegas
- Nathan Ioane
- Loli‘i
- Andy Lianos
- Bobby Ingano
- Pat Paaoao
- Kimo Naylon
- Kealoha Kalima Ohana
- Pomaikai Kalima
- Bumbo Kalima
- Ipo Kalima
- Hawaiiloa
- Eddie Palama
- Herb Lee
- Bobby Kahihikolo
- Pahinui Hawaiian Band
- Kunia Galdeira
- Sonny Lim
- Cyril Pahinui
- Greg Sardinha
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