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Taimane performs "Bora Bora Sunset" from her album "Hawaiki." Originally livestreamed on Twitch, Facebook and YouTube on November 8, 2022 as part of the PBS Hawaiʻi podcast "WHAT SCHOOL YOU WENT?"
Taimane performs "Ladybird" from her album "Hawaiki." Originally livestreamed on Twitch, Facebook and YouTube on November 8, 2022 as part of the PBS Hawaiʻi podcast "WHAT SCHOOL YOU WENT?"
In 1980, after thousands of dollars and long nights in the recording studio, local funk/soul musician Mike Lundy released an LP titled "The Rhythm of Life." But with no money left to promote and distribute the album, it went nowhere, and sat in boxes for decades until 2013, when he got a phone call that changed everything.
Ikaakamai performs his song "Scholarship."
Ikaakamai performs his song "He Noho Papa."
Aunty Genoa Keawe and granddaughter Pōmaikaʻi perform a medley of song "Mauna Loa" and her signature song "Alika" on a 2001 episode of Nā Mele.
George Helm performs the song "Kalamaʻula" at the Liliuʻokalani Trust Center in Kalamaʻula, Molokai for the Golden Anniversary of Molokai Homesteading in 1972. Featuring Barney Isaacs, Jr. on steel guitar, Benny Kalama on guitar, and Jimmy Kaopuiki on bass.
From the program "Pau Hana Years: Golden Anniversary of Molokai Homesteading: 50 Years of Hawaiian Homelands on Molokai"
Paige Okamura, a.k.a. DJ Mermaid of Hawaiʻi Public Radio, talks about the role Hawaiian music plays in preserving and perpetuating history and language.
Oliver Seguin of Hawaiʻi record shop and label Aloha Got Soul explains how he and owner Roger Bong are working to preserve rare local music from the past while promoting Hawaiʻi's artists of the future.
Patrick and Jacqueline Breeden of Royal Hawaiian Heritage Jewelry explain the history of the Hawaiian bracelet, and show the step-by-step process of how the heirlooms are made.