Hawaiian Music, Language and Technology. With A Dash of Ethnomusicology. Me te reo Māori. Kia kaha!
Kenneth Makuak?ne and I have been collaborating on a mele for a new Hawaiian music heritage program, “N? Mele No N? Pua” (which figuratively is defined as “Music for the Generations”). It will feature two,…
Dave has had a lot to say about the press, inaccurate and incomplete reporting and how some reporters have acted at his and others recently decisions to decline interview requests. I’m not in Dave or…
A group of Irish-Canadians have financed a Gaeltacht about 130 miles from Toronto. They have combined to buy 60 acres of land near the small but aptly named village of Erinsville, whose first five mayors…
My friend Rainer in Brazil and I had a long chat online last week about billboards. Here in Hawai‘i they are not allowed, and apparently the São Paulo city council approved a ban on them…
A baggage handler at Dublin airport was locked into the cargo hold of a transatlantic aircraft as it taxied down the runway in 2005. Fortunately he had a cell phone and was able to call…
My siblings and I have been told about our family connection to the town of Deerfield, Massachussetts many times. I started doing genealogical research on the family and with the help of distant relatives have…