I’m a voting member of The Recording Academy, which is responsible for the Grammy Awards. It amazes me how few Irish artists get entered. There are a few this year, including Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, whom I had only known as a member of Danu. I checked out her website and her CD sounds awesome. I ordered a copy and got a nice email from her. Susan McKeown, Lunasa, and Solas are on the Traditional Folk ballot, and Enya on the Album of the Year, which has hundreds of entries. Any Irish artists I’m missing? I’ll hold onto my ballot for…
Net Visionary Awards
Conn and Bernie have both been nominated in the Net Visionary Awards run by the Irish Internet Association. Like they used to say in Chicago, “Vote early and vote often.” Just kidding, one vote per voter.
Baby Steps Toward Eire
I’ve been making slow progress on refining my topic for Ph.d. research and perhaps narrowing down my choices regarding a location for studies. I just completed a Fulbright scholarship application last week that would go a long way toward paying for my Ph.d. in Ireland. I have been considering the ethnomusicology programs at both University College Cork and Queens University Belfast, but had to chose to specify only one since you are only allowed to chose one country. Care to guess which one I chose? I’ve been told that the applications are whittled down and sent to the host country…
UH Football Warriors = “The Island Native People” In Navajo
The New Mexico State – Hawai‘i football game will be broadcast in the Navajo language, as have other NMS state games since last year. I would love to see someone broadcast those kinds of games in Hawaiian as well. But no, I’m not volunteering to do it.
Earthquake DID generate tsunami – a 4 inch one
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Sunday’s 6.7-magnitude earthquake off of the Northest coast of Hawai‘i island generated a 4-inch tsunami that was measured by Kawaihae Harbor’s tide gauge at 7:17 a.m.
All Shook Up: Earthquake Strikes Hawai‘i
Hawai‘i experienced its largest earthquake in 23 years today, it was centered a few miles off-shore along the Kona coast of our island. No tsunami was generated, and thankfully this was determined quickly. According to news reports it would take an earthquake of over 7 to generate one; this was was reported as something between 6.3 and 6.5. There has been some infrastructure damage, some roads on our island or closed or cut down to single lane traffic. No fatalities have been reported, though there were some unverified injury reports. The North Kohala Hospital has been evacuated. Electricity was out…