Saturday (October 9) 9am – 4pm, Kihei Veterans Hall

DONATIONS BENEFITS MAUI PITBULL RESCUE:

$3 entry for people (donation) / free for keiki 12 and under

$5 entry for non-competing dogs (donation)

$5 parking (donation)

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“[T]he American Bully [is] a new breed created from the American Pit Bull Terrier and American Staffordshire Terrier,” says the American Bully Kennel Club, and Maui bullies — and their humans — will be on parade this October, at the “Bullies at the Beach” event, in Kihei. The event will feature a weight-pull competition and “beauty and the beast” contest, plus food and entertainment.

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Kennel/Vendor spaces available. Contact Tony at 808-357-3567 or Terri at 808-385-2469 / friendswithpits@yahoo.com.

Check out K.A. Photography’s “Models with American Bullys” album.

Check out the American Bully Kennel Club’s webiste.

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Labels like “folk hero” and “living legend” are often applied to Eddie Kamae, although in their grandeur they actually under-service his true contributions. In his 83 years–from stage to screen to page–Kamae has contributed immeasurably to the understanding and perpetuation of Hawaiiana. His mantle of awards, a small testament to his life’s work, include Congressional resolutions for service and outstanding accomplishments, multiple lifetime achievement awards from cities, academies and museums, inductions into various halls of fame, a Purpose Prize Fellow for social innovation and the National Heritage Fellowship Award, the highest federal award for folk musicians.

Most notably of the original Sons of Hawaii–a band formed in the 1960s when Kamae joined forces with the late, great Gabby Pahinui and, later, Dennis Kamakahi–Kamae continues to produce albums featuring the Sons’ decade-spanning music, teaming with Mike Kaawa, Analu Aina, Ocean Kaowili and Paul Kim.

A historian at heart, Kamae sought out the last living links to the source of the Hawaiian sound that’s been his life’s passion. By the late ’80s, he’d befriended many kupuna, who shared their stories with him–stories, according to Kamae, that needed to be told.

Between 1988 and 2007, Kamae and his wife Myrna directed and produced nine award-winning documentary films as part of their Hawaiian Legacy Series. This year, the films are being released to the public on DVD for the first time, ahead of two new films slated to debut by 2012 (My Teachers Teach Me and Feeding the Soul). We screened three of the Kamae’s movies–all in stores and online now–plus Eddie Kamae and The Sons of Hawaii’s latest studio album, and thought them each a delight worth sharing.

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Album:

Eddie Kamae & The Sons of Hawaii – Yesterday & Today Volume 2 (2009)

Winsomely humble yet articulate, the album features five Sons songs from “yesterday,” and seven from “today.” Liner notes include a unique backstory for each track, sharing translation insights and historic tidbits. Doused in all the sweetest luau smells and radiating with pastureland sunshine, it’s the perfect soundtrack for a country drive or family picnic. There’s something especially kolohe-sounding (and smile-eliciting) in the bouncing guitar riff of “Pua O Ka ‘Ilima,” which was written to pay “homage to Oahu’s honored ‘ilima blossom, loft Mount Ka‘ala and revered King Kahuihewa.”

Essential Tracks:

(including “stories” and info from liner notes)

#4 – “Ho’ina ‘Inau Mea Ipo Ka Nahele” (Love-making in the Forest)

A delicate romance is recalled in this poetic tribute to a pair of lovers in the Puna forest, by Queen Lili’uokalani. Lyrically translated as “Lovers are wooing in the woods,” this mele speaks of flowers tying love-knots and lying wilted at noon.

Composer: Queen Lili’uokalani. Lead vocal & ‘ukulele: Eddie Kamae ASCAP. Mike Kaawa: 12-string guitar. Ocean Kaowili: 6-string guitar & bass. Paul Kim: steel guitar.

#7 – “Hui Wai Anuhea” (The Fragrant Waters Glee Club)

This mele honors the name and fame of Waipio Valley and the 16th century Kings Liloa and Umi-a-Liloa who lived in the coconut grove at sacred Paka’alana and the cool spring water pool of Waiamoa. Sam Li’a, Eddie Kamae’s mentor, told him that they valley choir’s leader, Walter Kuikahi, wrote the song in 1889 to celebrate this center of history and legend.

Composer: Walter Kuikahi. Arranger, lead vocal & ‘ukulele: Eddie Kamae ASCAP. Mike Kaawa: 12-string guitar. Ocean Kaowili: 6-string guitar & bass. Paul Kim: steel guitar.

#9 – “Koke’e”

The forests, streams, rolling fog and symphony of night-time creatures at Koke’e on Kaua’i are a spiritual comfort and refuge for Dennis Kamakahi, held forever close to his heart in the memory of his friend Dave Boynton who also loved Koke’e and the forest of Hawai’i.

Composer, lead vocal & 6-string guitar: Rev. Dennis Kamakahi ASCAP. Eddie Kamae ASCAP: ‘ukulele. Joe Marshall: bass. David “Feet” Rogers: steel guitar.

#11 – “Pua O Ka ‘Ilima” (The ‘Ilima Blossom)

Returning home after visiting his hanai son Samuel and wife Leimomi on O’ahu, Sam Li’a was inspired to write about the ‘ilima flowers he saw on Mount Ka’ala from the airplane. He wrote the lyrics and Eddie Kamae wrote the music to this homage to O’ahu’s honored ‘ilima blossom, loft Mount Ka’ala and revered King Kakuhihewa.

Lyrics: Sam Li’a. Music, lead vocal & ‘ukulele: Eddie Kamae ASCAP. Mike Kaawa: 12-string guitar & bass. Paul Kim: steel guitar.

Also, see Eddie Kamae & The Sons of Hawaii – Yesterday and Today, Volume 1

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DVD:

Luther Kahekili Makekau: A One Kine Hawaiian Man [(c)1997; 2010 DVD release]

A snapshot of one of the most captivating characters of our (or any) age. Born on July 13, 1890 on Maui and reared on the Big Island, the infamous Luther Kahekili Makekau lived to nearly 100 years old, and throughout the documentary is described as a “rustler,” “a rascal” and “a rebel,” who came of age during the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and “roam[ed] these islands, a restless, warrior cowboy… a living encyclopedia of ancient knowledge, born a century too late,” possessing, “a form of warrior energy with no place to express itself.” The film is a wonderfully edited compilation of interviews with his descendants, those who knew him and the twinkling Makekau himself. It’s a joy to hear impassioned tales of this true paniolo, sometimes gorgeously and gloriously told in Hawaiian tongue by the likes of Ruth Kaholoaa and Rev. David Kaalakea. “He had a constitution that was so strong,” says Henry Bianchini in the film, “everyone wanted to know where his power [came] from.”

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DVD:

Listen to the Forest [(c)1991; 2010 DVD release]

The Kamaes’ films have been widely integrated into school curriculum, and rightly so. As evidenced with Listen to the Forest, they strike a tone of pleasantly pretension-free academic authority, and effortlessly traverse the borderland between Hawaii’s unique ecology and cultural practices. “The forest is crying out, we need to listen… I don’t just mean the beautiful sounds of the birds and the wind in the ‘Ohi‘a, but the message of the old Hawaiians who lived close to earth and can still hear and remember,” says Eddie of the film. It focuses on hula and oral tradition’s weave to nature, kalo cultivation, the Hawaiian Happy-Face Spider, the haunting tale of singing Hawaiian tree snails and the diversity of our tragic Native Hawaiian birds.

DVD:

The Hawaiian Way: The Art and Tradition of Slack Key Music [(c)1993; 2010 DVD release]

With his gifts as both musician and filmmaker, if there’s any story Eddie Kamae seems made to tell it is that of Ki Ho‘alu, or Hawaiian slack key music. Beginning with the style’s 1830s genesis and through to modern day, the documentary explores the uniqueness of the “slack” or “open” tunings through the insights of the  masters–including Kamae’s late, legendary bandmate Gabby Pahinui of The Sons of Hawaii, and present-day master Ledward Kaapana. Accented throughout with archival footage, another unique feature of the film is a section on slack key sound specific to the island of Ni‘ihau, “whose music has a quality all it’s own”–neatly analogous to the Ki Ho‘alu as a whole.

“Every cent” from DVD sales and donations “is put back into funding films and preserving Hawaiian cultural for educational and archival purposes,” through the Kamae’s nonprofit, The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation. For more info, visit hawaiianlegacy.com.

Saturday (September 4), 8pm, ‘Iao Theater, $15/$20

AN ALL AGES SHOW! Augie T makes a Maui stop on his “I Got Left Behind” tour. Go, laugh, and be a part of the live taping for his forthcoming DVD. augietulba.com

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Kimo Crowned Tin Can Comedy King

Selecting the opening act for Augie T ’s September 4 show has  been a process six weeks in the making (READ about it’s genesis, here), and on Tuesday (August 31), Kimo Rice-Mcgerty was crowned king. Facebook breaks the news, with:

via: Tin Can Comedy Nights Last night, it was a hard competition, but Kimo Rice-mcgerty won by an overwhelming vote. He walked away $125 in cash richer, and with enough VIP stuff coming up to act like a rockstar. Major thank yous to all that attended, voted, and supported this event. Maui Time, Mulligans on the Blue, Q103, Hawaiian Holy Smoke, T…WMedia.net, and All Access Entertainment… thank you for making this first ever championship the big night that it was! CONGRATS KIMO!

Friday (September 3), 6-8pm, Market Street, Wailuku, Free

Whereas “spreading da aloha” is code for promiscuity, to “practice aloha” is entirely pono—and the theme of this month’s Wailuku First Friday festivities. The night plays host to the opening ceremonies for the annual Festivals of Aloha (6pm), with honorary chairperson Danny Mateo and cultural adviser Kaponoani Molitau presiding, as well as a Mayoral Forum (8pm) hosted by the Maui Young Business Roundtable at the Iao Theater. Folks 21 and over will be happy to hear there will be both a beer garden (starting at 5pm)—in support of the Na Aikane O Pu’ukohola Heiau, a national historic site—and an organic wine tasting at Cafe O’Lei (call 986-0044 for reservations). But mostly, it’s an event for the whole ‘ohana, with lots of street vendors and ono grinds. And there’s always an abundance (sometimes an over-abundance) of entertainment up and down the blocked-off-to-traffic Market Street. This month features Weldon Kekauoha (pictured) at Native Intelligence, Kua’aina at Maui Thing, Keoni Manuel’s Halau Hula o Na Pua o Pakipika and Te Tiare Patitifa at the Wailuku Banyan Tree Park, plus the Arts Education for Children Group presents live music at the Wailuku Coffee Company throughout the night. Come hungry, bring everyone you have aloha for, and have enough fun to hold you over ’til next month.

Neat photo, huh? See more from Jack Grace Photography.

Saturday (September 4), 7:30pm, Castle Theater, MACC, Kahului, $25/$30/$40

Over 100 dedicated hula dancers will take to the stage for a concert titled Na Mele O Ku‘u Pu‘uwai – Songs of my Heart, from kumu hula and recording artist Uluwehi Guerrero’s Halau Hula Kauluokala. Of course, Guerrero himself will put his powerful pipes to masterful use, performing selections from all three of his studio albums, including his latest, Uluwehi Sings Na Melel Hula Aloha – Beloved Hula Songs, which this year won three Na Hoku Hanohano awards for Liner Notes, Hawaiian Album of the Year and Best Traditional Album of the Year. Guerrero refers to tracks on that album as “musical photographs,” and audience members will literally have the opportunity to see these songs come to life with expressive hula hands, costuming and set design during this highly anticipated concert (the likes of which he and his halau host only every other year). The night will also include a special appearance by Na Leo Lani O Maui community choir, under the direction of Gale Wisehart, and is an absolute must-attend event for all hula people, and hula people at heart. 808-242-7469; mauiarts.org

Read MauiTime’s August 2009  Music Scene story on Uluwehi, regarding his 2009 album Uluwehi Sings Na Melel Hula Aloha – Beloved Hula Songs

Sunday (September 5), 11am-4pm, Ulupalakua Ranch,  Upcountry, Free

It’s always a good day for a leisurely drive Upcountry, but no better day than this Sunday to visit Tedeschi Winery and Ulupalakua Ranch, for their special Ulupalakua Cares event. Once you arrive on the winery grounds, your ears will be treated to the string-picking stylings of Joshua Kahula with Derick Sebastian (12-3pm) and, from Lanai, Polihua (3-4pm). Between brushing up on the latest efforts by local conservation groups at one of the many informational booths, tasting wines (complimentary; be sure to try their syrupy Framboise de Maui raspberry wine, paired with a morsel of white chocolate with macadamia nuts), and picking up “picnic fixin’s” hot off the grill at the Ulupalakua Ranch Store—where you can also catch local music by Bradda Francis Koahou (11:30am-3pm)—be sure to save time for the two informative talks also scheduled for that afternoon. “A Voyage Back in Time: The Natural Treasures of Ulupalakua Ranch,” will be led by esteemed botanist Dr. Art Medeiros (12pm) and “How to Determine the Value of a Tree,” (I’m guessing it ends like a MasterCard commercial), with arborist Ernest Rezents (2pm), including a walking tour of the winery’s grand, centenarian trees. If upon leaving Ulupalakua still calls, the winery is open daily from 10am-5pm, alongside the ranch store’s daily hours of 9:30am-5:30pm. And save the date of December 5 for Ulupalakua Sparkles, the final quarterly installment of 2010’s Sunday Drive events. 808-878-6058; ulupalakuaranch.com / mauiwine.com

Like this painting? It’s titled “Ulupalakua Greens,” Michael Clements, and can be seen at Viewpoints Gallery, in Makawao. Click HERE for more.

Whether you SHOULD is another matter.

So I’ve heard several people remark that Rob Schneider — set to appear on-island September 25 as part of the Maui Celebrity Series — must be sick of people repeating his catchphrase, “You can do it!” from The Waterboy. It’s on the poster for his gig; we put it in our calendar listing.

Well, I’m here to tell you Schneider is too cool to turn up his nose at love, even cliched, heard-it-ten-thousand-times love. Or at least he was a few years ago, when I saw him at a San Francisco Giants game and some dude yelled out — you guessed it — “You can do it!” and not only did Schnieder not roll his eyes, he high-fived the guy and bought him a beer. Seriously. Now maybe he was just putting on appearances, but still — it’s a lot more than many stars (or, OK, semi-stars) would do.

So when you see Rob on Maui in a few weeks, feel free to yell that line at him. We can almost guarantee he’ll be cool about it. Of course, whether YOU’LL be cool is less certain…

Keys of Creation Stella Blues Sat. 8/28 10PM

Okay, so we are definitely not perfect here in the editorial offices of Maui Time. However we are quick to make amends when we err in our ways. The bad news first, We got the Stella Blues Grid Listings Wrong!! Keys of Creation is not tonight it is tomorrow night at 10 pm! The Good News is we got it right in the Big Shows listings! Thank goodness for that. So please forgive us, and go to Keys of Creation! Arise will be opening the show, its going to be cool.

More details in the Online Calendar Here

Synopsis:

Want to live up Polynesia? Head down to the South side. Arise opens. 10pm, $10

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Saturday (August 28), 10am-2pm, Piiholo Ranch, Makawao

Saddle up, equestrian enthusiasts, for the 2nd annual Maui Horse Show Association Fun Day. The association “provides Maui with sanctioned Western Pleasure, Jumper and Hunter shows and clinics” and seeks to “promote the welfare of horses and ponies.” For riders, they’re hosting events for both mounted ($20 registration) and unmounted ($10 registration) participants, with sign-ups beginning an hour before the festival’s 10am start time. Plus, lots of good-natured fun for the whole ‘ohana, with activities including pony rides, games, face painting and crafts. The event will be held at the Piiholo Ranch (325 Waiahiwi Rd.); fairgoers unfamiliar with this Upcountry location should take Piiholo Rd. to the Waiahiwi fork and follow the signs for approximately 1.5 miles. 808-870-3877; mauihorseshow.com / piiholo.com

Like the artwork above? Learn more about artist Franz Mark, HERE.