‘Radio Hula’ – Learn a Hawaiian Slack-Key Favorite
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‘Radio Hula’ – Learn a Hawaiian Slack-Key Favorite
Nov 16, 2018
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🌿🎸 Ledward Kaapana — “Radio Hula” (Live at AMSD Concerts, San Diego) A pure solo slack‑key moment. In this clip from AMSD Concerts in San Diego, Ledward Kaapana takes “Radio Hula” at an easy, mid‑tempo groove—thumb rock‑solid on the bass, treble line singing on top, and every turnaround landing clean. It is all touch and time, the kind of performance where you can hear the room settle down to listen. “Radio Hula” is a classic Hawaiian mele from the 1920s, written to celebrate the wonder of rad
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🌿🎸 Ledward Kaapana — “Radio Hula” (Live at AMSD Concerts, San Dieg…
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🎸📻🌺Today’s performance is “Radio Hula” with Led Kaʻapana joined by Jeff Peterson and George Kahumoku Jr. This piece goes back to the 1920s and Lizzie (Elizabeth Kahau) Alohikea, a singer with the Royal Hawaiian Band, who wrote it to mark the arrival of radio in Hawaiʻi. The lyric marvels at the new technology—how it links islands and carries voices into homes—and even nods to the serial dramas that became appointment listening. Over time it settled into the standard repertoire for hula and Ha
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🎸📻🌺Today’s performance is “Radio Hula” with Led Kaʻapana joined b…
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Ledward Kaʻapana — “Nani” with hula by Wainani Kealoha A quiet, nahenahe moment on the Slack Key Show stage. Led lets the melody glide over a steady heartbeat bass, adding small harmonics and slides while Wainani’s hula shapes the story in her hands and eyes. Guitar and hula breathe together at an unhurried tempo, turning the room into a listening circle. About Ledward. Raised in Kalapana, he came up playing by ear at family kanikapila, co-founded Hui ʻOhana with his twin brother Nedward and cou
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Ledward Kaʻapana — “Nani” with hula by Wainani Kealoha A quiet, …
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🎶 Enjoy our music video to Ledward Kaapana’s “Radio Hula” 🤙 “Radio Hula” was written in the 1920s by Lizzie Alohikea to celebrate the wonder of radio, which suddenly let Hawaiian music leap across oceans. The tune’s joyful swing and catchy vamp made it a favorite for hula dancers and a must‑know for slack key players ever since. Here you’ll hear it in the deft hands of Ledward Kaapana, National Heritage Fellow and living legend of kī hō‘alu. His signature alternating bass groove and crystal cl
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🎶 Enjoy our music video to Ledward Kaapana’s “Radio Hula” 🤙 “Radio H…
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Led Kaapana is the Grand Master of Hawaiian slack key guitar. Slack Key Master, George Kahumoku Jr will host the Slack Key Show, Wednesday, Dec. 11th with guitarist Shem Kahawaii and hula dancer Wainani Kealoha. Enjoy great stories, sharing culture, and beautiful hula dancing. The Slack Key Show - Masters of Hawaiian Music is every Wednesday at the Napili Kai Beach Resort's open-air Aloha Pavilion on Maui. Tickets are available in advance online at SlackKeyShow.com/show-schedule or by phone at 8
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🎸🌺Ledward Kaʻapana performing “Mauna Loa Slack Key” This sparkling live take shows Ledward at his most joyful, loose, melodic, and storytelling through every phrase. If this tune grabs you, you can also find it on his landmark album Led Live Solo from Dancing Cat, 1994, a release that captured his stage magic and introduced many listeners to the Kalapana tradition with warmth and humor. “Mauna Loa Slack Key” carries deep family lineage. Dancing Cat’s notes trace it to Ledward’s uncle, the lege
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