コロナに負けるな！大好きなハワイアンカルチャーを応援しよう！

To all the Ukulele and Hawaii lovers around the world.

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Please support for musician in Hawaii
https://readyfor.jp/projects/ukuleleisland/
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We are organizing an event called “Ukulele “愛”-ai (love) land festival” in Japan.
We held this event for the 1st time on 10/22/2019 to help different kinds of people get “connected” through the sound of “Aloha” from Ukulele.
When we started planning for this year’s festival, we’ve heard that “Hawaii” is in critical situation from our good friend from Hawaii, Reiko T Rogers from “StudioRim Hawaii”

Oahu was having the 2nd lockdown and all the stores, restaurants around Waikiki’s are closed, the economic activities focused on tourism got stagnant, and the cultural program’s in a critical situation.
Still only half of the places are reopening, there are so many artists who lost their place, opportunities to perform, but not having their living guaranteed.

Hawaii, where culture of ukulele was made. We think this is our chance to give gratitude and send love for sharing their amazing culture by our “crowdfunding”

Starting from ¥1000, ¥2000, ¥3000 to ¥5000 .
All the donated money will go through “Ukulele Friends Hawaii” to support Hawaiian musicians who lost their place to perform , and also through “Hawaiian Music Perpetuation Society” to support the cultural inheritance of Hawaii.

We will be streaming on 11/8 (Japan Time) on YouTube radio of this event.

Members from “Ukulele Friends Hawaii” will be joining us, sharing stories about the situation in Hawaii.

●Event：Aloha calls from Hawaii featuring 2nd Ukulele “愛”-ai (love) land festival
●Date：11/8 (Sun) 12:00～15:00（Japan Time）Youtube radio
●How to Watch：
https://www.facebook.com/alohawithmusic/

●Ukulele Friends Hawaii　　
To get connected with all the ukulele lovers around the world, one of the masters of ukulele, Bryan Tolentino became the proposer and started live streaming to the world on Facebook, having guests from all over the world, listening to their stories about ukulele, hearing some special episodes with some Kanikapila.
※Pictures taken from “Ukulele Friends Hawaii” Facebook Page
From the upper right, Bryan Tolentino／L Halehaku Seabury／ Herb Ohta Jr／Craig Q Chee
Asa K. Young／Brittni Paiva／David Kamakahi／Hoku Zuttermeister
Sarah Joe／Jake Shimabukuro／ Jeremy Kama Hopkins／Hawaiian Music Perpetuation Society　　

●Hawaiian Music Perpetuation Society

For the cultural inheritance of Hawaii Kumu Kuuipo Kumukahi the evangelist of essence of Hawaii, the “Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ’Aina i ka pono”, has became the representative.
In 1992, Kuuipo Kumukahi has debut as an group “Ke’alohi” and won Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 1994 such as “Female Vocalist of the Year”, “Hawaiian Music Album of the Year”.
She also got a B.A.E.E, Bachelor of Arts in Elementally Education from the education department of Chaminade University of Honolulu.
Recently, she has been active as a director for “Ho’okela”, to let us experience authentic Hawaiian heritage and learn about Hawaiian culture at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach and Spa.