why an artist coming into the seattle area today we're going to be talking about a young man who is going to be visiting us this weekend and his name is ali and i'm going to share a little bit about about him but before we talk more about him i wanted to give a brief history of what has happened in the world of and is going to be showing the voice of today when he comes to a concert and i lecture on friday and on saturday here in the seattle area and that come up has arrived to the to washington and to the seattle and just wanted to share that our sunset is on a green grass and so anyways i just wanted to be able to i just was looking at what we're here here in the studio and just wanted to share that our beautiful sunset is looking over overlooking hawaii and but anyway established as much as it is today but the hula fifty years ago you could see the boat cruises arriving in the islands of hawaii and there really would be greeted with hula dancers in gra plumeria necklace lays around their necks and dancing with with music and live musicians playing the ukulele and bass and guitar and they would when you arrived on the boat cruises you'd see these hula dancer as well gentleman who helped bring the hula around to the global world and how he did that which is an interesting thing is because you know back then there who wasn't really thought of in its context with the the dances of all using the language of the whole wire and when uncle george was working at the parks department for he will at that time one of his proposals he and his coworkers proposed that they would put together a hula festival and this whole a festival is at that time was going to only become a festival that was going to show a little bit about the hawaiian cultures included in there a little parade  a festival of foods and bringing out the different variety of how allow or two schools to dance and show what their culture is all about and that was over fifty years ago schools dance arts was brought out as it developed into a hawaiian renaissance in the early seventy's and eighty's and it has continued on to today it's an interesting situation because when will was brought out its main intent at the festivals was to be able to bring in and it was part of their tourism industry to bring in more people to come in into the town of  is an area that is very very rainy very much like what we have here and the tourist industry we need to be boosted up well back then the first miss who was allowed to larry who came  years since the beginning of the hula festivals and mary monarch of the first will today it's called the mary monarch who a festival and it is very very prestigious a very well we're now and it is considered the olympics of the hula dance arts over the years the intent was to be able to recreate and preserve the who and the cultures and this is another song that she created and composed a song wrote the song and composed it a song today it's called that song was made famous by another organization another musician group which is very famous respected and a composer and a songwriter and she also saying that song which is a kind of an awesome thing because here in her line and her genealogy and her descendants they've continued to teach and share the hula cannot go all the family this is a picture of poor money poor money and she is a very well respected along with her sister i have a coincidence that's not really a coincidence at all that from the genealogy it has continued their genealogy conoco always have had who in their over seven generations of their won this at the age of seventeen he was one of the youngest it's very rarely given to someone who is so young like him and this is their their family and their is right there in the middle of the photo welcome back even when they excited because he's going to be he is here in seattle and he will be attending he will be performing a concert on friday night at town hall at eight o'clock town hall is is well known for having many home wine entertainers and we're very very honored to have him there he is going to be making a great appearance that afternoon he's attending new hope at new hope church on one three five zero for lands in shoreline he'll attending and being there to to give a lecture and a brief a brief so showing of what he's going to be doing at the concert it's not going to be the concert but he will be sharing a lot of his  thoughts very very very excited to have him there it's going to be this friday the thirteenth at twelve thirty two one thirty there's going to be lunch so if you if there's any way that you can come by and check us out the donee we're asking for a donation of a food item at new hope community center where the plan is that this is going to help replenish our much needed food pantry at the north city new hope food pantry and so come in check him out in his case just please bring in his guitarist and they're going to share a lot about their history and more about h call and i know folks are going to be asking him about his all the low he speaks fluent hawaiian and you can hear him in see him on some of his my space my supposed dot com  very very talented young man his family has been embraced and he's been immersed in all of that complete why ana is he's learned everything about the hula and at a young age today he's only twenty seven but at a young age of twenty seven he has already accomplished quite a bit he's carrying on the traditions of his family and the exciting thing is that he is really considered the voice is called the voice of hawaii's new generation and you know as i was thinking about this years ago when the when mary monarch who first of all was first introduced it really it was a very was not the parade that goes with it and they didn't have the all the categories that they have today and it's just exciting because i'm very as it is evolved and ban k in the in hawaii as it has involved over the years it only was was open to the how loud of the big island and then it was opened to other how allow the other islands night at the concert eva is going to be showing this is town hall were quite mad in a beautiful city of seattle and this is a gorgeous venue where eva is going to be playing he will be showing and using the poll who drum and the poor new as part of his concert and the reason why this is so important is because to watch how his generations before he didn't have an opportunity to meet and to eat it his great grandmother and and to be working with his grandmother and with his grandmother and his mother it's  it's it's an amazing thing i had an opportunity to go to the world who the conference a couple of years ago on a walk and while while we were there we had an opportunity to take a class on the  of all of the arts of the hula and an interesting picture we had seen i didn't bring it today but there was some of the the  because eva was one of the fellows who was one of the dancers who actually modeled the work of his costume his costume he was they made it themselves and they made it from the traditional  fabrics and materials grown from the earth so a very very well versed very educated young man is going to i think you will really enjoy seeing him and hearing i'm excited because he is the fourth generation of the current folks that we know that has been here he comes he comes from a very rich rich hoola family so he has developed into a very phenomenal world music artist with an inventive talent that shines brightly on his on his he's got a new tyrone of a book of an album  and he's setting himself he said in the piece raising the bat and pushing with standards challenging not only himself but his contemporaries a strand as high wind as his blood line only delivers twelve only chance and the only song which we find dynamics that is exclusively his own and if you have an opportunity to listen to his to download his music you click to hear him in i believe that you as you listen to him you're going to hear really what he is all about the voice of today he has had several there they very rarely give that award to someone as young as him but i think the fans that he means he comes from his long line of family strength in the hula and the culture gave him a little bit of an advantage but you know it's not so much of too much of an advantage because he's created a lot of his own here is second album he was called velo and of course he has another album called over where and his very last one eva his picture this picture of here is on his feet he is the one that actually is showing him at the  composing your own songs and so he was already following in his footsteps of his mom and his grandmother and his great grandmother these qualities have all nurtured well within the family and the the past seven generations and beyond have been maintained with a traditional family life style dedicated to those who at the hawaiian culture in fact not only has participated and danced in the mary monarch who a festival since he was twelve because you have to be twelve and above to have been able to participate in that who are first of all he's also appeared on stage and in film a collaboration with a towel dance theater his family is also known to be part of that well then from that is a wonderful production that's there if you have had an opportunity to see all of my pele by that you the foundation it is a video of the travels of pele and it's interesting because this this has gone this production has gone all the way across the united states and it's still one of the best productions of the hawaiian hula and upcoming they're going to be having another production that's going to be showing some of these fine fine replicas of the dances of the finest artists of the one who has the stage productions has spanned over ten years now of his life and continue to advance with each new inspiration that the hula has has to offer and so with that i just wonder share that you know here is a big island after what you iraq please come and chat check them out is going to be on friday morning at twelve thirty to one thirty over and on friday night he will be at the concert in concert just with him and we're just going to love his music and that's conoco only at eight o'clock at the town hall and on saturday there's two more who the  performances by law who own a poor money at town hall it's going to be more like one who a party for families and kids the children will be able to have an opportunity to learn the hula and also participate in the hawaiian aspects of the culture that's at one o'clock and at eleven at town hall now i was talking about we've been talking about eva who comes from hilo the area of of  hawaii and the wonderful things about this is that there's lots of people that comes from the island of hawaii that has that has been here to washington and oregon and all over the world very well reviewed everett well known culture of the islands of hawaii through very monarch who festivals and many other who are festivals all over the world in fact in japan and it's an interesting thing because here  japan we had you know here they were there was a bombing during the beginning of the first world war and and today japan is one of the greatest lovers of the hawaiian music  hula they have many many a lot there and so with that i want to bring up japan because it is a group the comes from the island of the big island and they will be also appearing in the seattle area over half moon bay bar and grill in westport they're going to they're going to be having a valentine's day dinner at one of the local restaurants in this area the fifteenth that's fifteenth as we  ct in bellevue on friday night the seventeenth there's going to he's going to be the kohala will be over the haunch potch grill hawaiian grill in eugene and they will be at the asian pacific festival there in eugene well for that weekend so it's going to be a wonderful ten day tour with hala and we're just going to be kicking it off this weekend with a fabulous fabulous time with we just invite you to come and enjoy and get filled up with a whole lot of aloha warming your hearts and your temperatures today is since we are in the winter of the northwest a gets a little chilly here i woke up with some frost and i was like oh my goodness so we are really happy to have some warmth and getting it started this weekend with all the so i just wanted to  to build a holiday for producing this show and having an opportunity for us to be able to share the wine culture i hope you enjoyed this little segment today telling a little story about the hula and where it was before and where