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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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Nature at the Boiling Pots (Hilo, HI)
I took that picture on the fly :-) when descending to the Boiling Pots.
optimized with TiltShift Generator
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Aloha Friday: Your Favorite Tropical Fruit
Liza (A Maui Blog) asks “what is your favorite tropical fruit?”. Our (Manuela’s and Frank’s as well) favorite tropical fruit is
We only have been twice in Hawai’i together (Frank was there in 1983 and 1997 on his own) and we LOVE papaya. But every time we came back from Hawai’i and bought some in Germany here we were soooo disappointed in comparison to those bought in Hawaii. They only taste so onolicious in Hawai’i :-)
Farmer’s Market in Hilo, HI in May 1, 2010
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Video of Miss Aloha Hula 2011: Tori Hulali Canha
Tori Hulali Canha is the winner of this year’s wahine (women) hula competition of the Merrie Monarch Festival. We were especially impressed by her kahiko performance.
First comes her oli (spoken chant) and at approx. 3 minutes she begins with her hula.
More information about the competition including a list of all winners is available on staradvertiser.com: “Reichel takes Miss Aloha Hula for second time”. Tori Hulali Canha is member of the Halau Ke‘alaokamaile (school) of kumu hula (hula teacher) Keali‘i Reichel. (“popular and bestselling singer, songwriter, choreographer, dancer, chanter, scholar, teacher, and personality from the State of Hawaiʻi”)
You may watch the two remaining competitions on Friday and Saturday evening (6:00 pm HST / 6:00 am CEST on the next day morning) as live streaming from KFVE The Home Team website - just as we will :-)
