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Join us this month for Nā Mele featuring multi-Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award winner Natalie Ai Kamauu at Palikū Theatre on the Windward Community College campus in Kāne‘ohe, O‘ahu.
Ai Kamauu recently won Female Vocalist of the Year for the sixth time and Album of the Year for Natalie Noelani. She also took home the title of Hawaiian Music Video of the Year for “No Waimea Ke Aloha” with her husband Iolani Kamauu. “No Waimea Ke Aloha” also won Hawaiian Single of the Year and Song of the Year.
We humbly ask you to tune in on Monday, December 11 at 7:30 pm as we broadcast a live pledge program from our Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Multimedia Studio.
Throughout the 90-minute program, Ai Kamauu, with son Chaz on bass, Iolani on guitar and daughter Sha-Lei and daughter-in-law Hiwa-Lei dancing hula, takes us on a whirlwind musical journey
of emotions from the toe-tapping “Hula Baby” to the soulful “Uhiwai.”
We extend our sincere gratitude to our friends at Palikū Theatre and Windward Community College once again for their hospitality and support of PBS Hawai‘i. We are grateful to capture special moments like this to celebrate and share with our viewers here and beyond our shores.
Only PBS Hawai‘i can bring you enriching content like this and we can only do so with your support. The trust you place in us is a responsibility or kuleana that each person on our staff embraces and takes to heart.
Through your generosity, we continue to:
- Produce monthly programs like PBS Hawai‘i Classics and Home is Here, that take viewers to new and familiar places, to meet new friends and reunite with old ones.
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We hope to see you on December 11 for what promises to be a beautiful evening of song, dance and new memories. We humbly ask you to join us in this season of giving to help our fundraising efforts.
With gratitude and aloha,
Ron Mizutani and the PBS Hawai‘i family