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Merrie Monarch Festival Overall Winner: Ke Kai O Kahiki
This weekend was a pleasure for me watching the live stream of the Merrie Monarch Festival from Hilo, HI on KFVE. I had the advantage of the 12 hour time shift between Hilo (PST) and Schwabenheim (CEST) so I watched the Hula festival in the morning while having breakfast. The overall winner is Ke Kai O Kahiki:
Six-man Waianae halau Ke Kai O Kahiki won every award they competed for in the Merrie Monarch hula festival, including best overall. It’s the second year in a row that the halau, under the direction of kumu hula O’Brian Eselu has won the overall prize and the fourth time in history, having also achieved top honors in 2000 and 2004.
[ Ke Kai O Kahiki wins top Merrie Monarch honors for second year in a row ]
You’ll get more information and a bunch of videos on K5: The 2010 Merrie Monarch Festival on K5.
I used the Firefox add-on “Fox Splitter” to watch the video stream as well to twitter in the same window. The Hashtag #merriemonarch was a Twitter trending topic for the last three days.
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