12/7/2023 0 Comments Beamer and kaponoSubscribe and save! Tickets start at $40.25, or $32 with a subscription package of 3 or more shows. Tour Schedule I will be touring first with my hnai son, Jeff Peterson, and my wife, hula master Moanalani Beamer. Keola Beamer, Henry Kapono, Jeff Peterson, and Moanalani Beamer team up again to share their music and aloha It’s wonderful to share music. Take a trip to the islands with these Hawaiian legends – without leaving the state.Īloha attitude and a hibiscus in your hair 1: Keola Beamer Winter Tour January to February 2020. The New York Times called Beamer “the quintessential Hawaiian slack-key guitar master” and his album “Honolulu City Lights” is still the best-selling record in Hawaiian music history, almost 40 years after its release. Kapono is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, and was half of the wildly popular Cecilio & Kapono. This music was part of a crucial movement to revive language, hula, and other aspects of Hawaiian culture that were fading away. In the 1970s, Beamer, Kapono and their peers fused traditional Hawaiian music with laid-back rock. Both musicians were at the forefront of a major American musical moment - the Hawaiian Renaissance. (With Kapono Beamer) Honolulu City Lights, Paradise Productions, 1978. (With Kapono Beamer) The Music of Hawaii, National Geographic Society, 1974-75. (With Kapono Beamer) Hawaii Then and Now, Music of Polynesia, 1974. The concert by the legendary musicians Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono provided isle expatriate Californians longing to return to Polynesia with an opportunity to dust off our Aloha shirts and bask in a cascade of ono (delicious) Hawaiian music at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center Eli and Edythe Broad Stage. Touring together, Beamer and Kapono, with Keola’s wife Moanalani performing hula, have been greeted by wildly enthusiastic audiences, celebrating their original songs that have become beloved contemporary Hawaiian classics.We all owe a big mahalo to Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono. (With Kapono Beamer) This Is Our Island HomeWe Are Her Sons, Music of Polynesia, 1973. Today, as a solo artist, Kapono is a Grammy-nominated and award-winning singer and songwriter.ĭespite their common history, Beamer and Kapono only performed together for the first time in 2014, when Kapono invited Keola and Moanalani Beamer to be part of Back in the Day, a successful annual show featuring the musical greats who shaped Hawaiian music from the ’70s on. With laid-back contemporary rock, they voiced the feelings of an entire generation in Hawaii. Henry Kapono helped forge the sound of ’70s Hawaiian music as part of the wildly popular duo Cecilio & Kapono (aka C&K) with Cecilio Rodriguez. Today he is one of Hawaii’s premier singer-songwriters, arrangers, composers, and masters of the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. Beamer and Kaponowith Beamer’s wife, Moanalani, performing hulacelebrate their original songs, which have become beloved contemporary Hawaiian classics, and share the. His 1978 release, Honolulu City Lights, is the largest-selling recording in the history of Hawaiian music. Keola Beamer’s contributions to slack-key guitar (k-h‘alu) during the 1970s sparked public interest in the style and launched a revival of the tradition. Keola Beamer’s contributions to slack-key guitar ( kī-hō‘alu) during the 1970s began to spark public interest the style, launching a statewide revival of the tradition. Kapono is one of the great island songwriters of his generation. He’ll bring the spirit of the island to the concert. He’s an exceptional musician, a very good player and beautiful singer. The Quintessential Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar Master
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