M i g h t y J

Aloha and welcome!

I have to apologize for not blogging lately, kala mai peeps.  However, within this past week, Hawai’i’s most cherished legendary majestic icons have passed.

Aunty Genoa Keawe.  Uncle Raymond Kane.

With Aunty’s falsetto and in depth spirit, she continued Hawaiian music without compromising or conforming what Hawaiian music is and what it means to be a Hawaiian and to do just that is soul breaking~!  Mahalo Aunty for giving to Hawai’i and to your ‘ohana, to everyone that you encountered your generous aloha (that’s sort of redundant :)) , but truly what a beautiful life you have shared with us all!  We bid you the warmest farewell and our love goes to your ‘ohana and to Papakolea!

And to Uncle Raymond, a legendary master of ki ho’alu and Hawaiian song, Hawaiian culture and our stories of old.  Mahalo nui for sharing and all you have given!  For much of the world, Ki Ho’alu is still something new and still in its introductory stages, but years ago when the kika (guitar) first came to this island, Hawaiians grabbed hold of this instrument and put our own tuning to it.  Who knows how and why, we just heard something centuries ago and thought this is what it needs to sound like, and played everyday as our family rested after an evening’s meal, with story telling, the sharing of each others’ days, all this surrounding family life, love, music, and the knowledge to give it up to God, where every single action and thought was done with consideration and regard for Akua, a higher purpose than ourselves.

Although this is something extremely small and insufficient and not good enough to honor these two ali’i that have gone beyond the depths of our human understanding, we wish your families our love and extend such an exalted ‘ihi,  aloha ‘oe, a sweet farewell, I believe we truly will all see each other again, and it is then when the best jam session EVER will again take place.

M.