try to remember how many releases we had gotten how many new ones we had seen how many ones we'd heard about put together a list kind of refined it send it out to all the ohana and they sent back their list of top ten we compile all the obvious come up with a list for the show so we sent out a list of about thirty five albums to look through and some really great ones and great names on there now i can't tell you about the grand list yet because it's still being compiled we're still getting the votes i've seen some other people's lists i've seen my notes list i've seen uncle danny's list and course i put together my own list which i can at least talk about ok so i admit to bring a bunch of these c d s to and kind of hold them up the album covers but ok you know it's brain yeah a you know what you were celebrating your christmas with almost a two year old and oh yeah yeah christmas in school had a lot of family to go that was nice because you know i'm now i'm a grandpa so grandpa silly is my official name grandpa silly grandpa silly to different you know how you have to differentiate between different grandparents and all that and people are saying what you want to ever have all you people said you want to have or just call you or some thing like that and it somehow evolved into grandpa silly she's not really saying that you know i think it's everyone else in the family i'm ok with that because it works but yeah it was it was a fun weekend so here's here's the list of the releases that i was most impressed with ok two thousand and eleven we have george jr his vala cool this one i'll talk a little bit extra about this one in a little while because this one is the one that's tied into the grammy awards oh you're the only hawaiian album this year at least in that category that again there's some little tricks going on that we'll talk about we also have helms latest which is called seal of love and she kind of goes back to a particular era of hawaiian hop a holly music and cannick recreates some of that style from the tiki era the clubs of that era does a really nice job and of course you know she has great musicians playing on the album with her dennis kamikazee and stephen inglis steven was a slack key student of dentists and is a recording artist in his own right with about four hours out they teamed up together this year to do a very special album about molokai and not just molokai but about the papa peninsula specifically because  dennis is part of a cultural team that has been meeting with the residents of the area the families the national park service the state lands people to talk about the transition what's going to happen to that area when the last of the hansen's disease patients has passed on and there's a lot of talk about how do we protect all this know that because the national park service has a lease on the property but it has a time frame and it's going to end and then they're going to turn it over to the state and the families want to be involved to figure out how do we create something that talks about the history of this place and what it meant to us and to our families and to the people whose lives were disrupted affected by it yet they want to be respectful and not have kind of a theme park vibe to it well they need to be able to have some kind of plaque i know that there's a there's a cemetery that's there and you know that builds father he's been doing some genealogy work with his grandfather sam was one of the folks who was shipped off to live over there and passed on so he's buried there and so you know a lot a lot of families like kids are going to want to know what's going to happen sadly it affect many many many families the families here on the mainland well and you've got to be respectful of their ancestors that are bury there now who lived there and died there yeah so it's a challenging aspect on an uncle dennis is part of the cultural team  hide them in he and steve inglis put together an album of songs inspired by about sometimes written by members of the community there and it's called a beautiful album what is a wonderful duo that put out their first album a couple of years ago they put out their second album this year and i was just really tickled by what they do they've got a really strong sound a hole in my is the name of why put his album he could the debut album that came out of course they were here for the little office of all who did some concerts in the area did some workshops made up with a lot of folks and so they're their premier album the album this year which features some live tracks it features some new originals and it features some remakes of some songs that he had done before that he has adapted over the years doing them in concert he does them a little bit different than he used to especially from her husband on this album i was really blown away by her first album and the second one is just the strong there are really touching songs there's fun material on there she's she's a husband  mom he's not a well known musician is all right but he does perform and play with her well a lot that i love the support folks are so strong well i want to know who it was we have right now a lot of them are the support people that's behind them it you know this is play with me now came out is also men that came out in the round this time last year so it's late two thousand and ten we're going to count it into the list for this year was a couple of these albums came out very very late in two thousand and ten and it was again the support people behind yes are so important and charlie put out his own solo album this year yeah he did life among the hills you know it's really just i was listening to the album again last night if you like the kind of stuff that he for the kohala concerts they're going to be in some of these kids are going to be in there for and so and cutting their their album he's sold he's so impressed with their music abilities and that they definitely i mean he's performed with them locally already and so he's been really excited about it it's in the genes it's in the genes ignore it and then the other one i want to mention the list was and we're talk about my lani you know her second album is also a really marvelous album  surprises all the time and different people get together in different things i can tell you one of the albums that's going to be really hot that's going to be coming out this year to watch for is the new cyril pai newly home why in band he's working with some people that are taking his music in directions you never heard before i've heard some of the early tracks as they're being mixed and of course he's working with great people like sonny lim and all these other wonderful folks he brought a lot of them here for the sl actually got to hear him singing a little bit and a couple tracks there just everybody's always picking on cino saying what are you going to do your old album what are you going to sing more when you can has it got it the song elem out he has been working on it for about eight years out of austin and he keeps blaming other people and because he's the same projects and he's working touring doing the same thing and finally you know and as he'll be doing it together you put it all together finally get it done so dino's can't wait for that one exactly and if you're somebody like charlie who does it all themselves yeah you just gotta find the time to be off the road away from family to sit there finish up all the tweaks the gene lungs here and there love we're here with that oh yeah when he was out near port orchard gorgeous setting i could i could escape and work out there to i've not been to his home of the big island i'd love to see that someday soon well he's now his daughter has his home and he just keeps everything in the family and he's got the best of both worlds being able to go over there and living over here as rising as he took down his studio yeah that was another kohala digital and he's on the road now with it yes and he brings it here when he's working too so now when he's working there like with john king of a he uses charles michael bro clean sound those guys are such sticklers for ok this guitar sounds different from that guitar so this microphone would be better to use than that micro yeah they're that detail oriented only and they keep the processing as minimal as possible to now not how do i say this not always the best educated bunch and i say that as a grammy voter myself a member of the recording academy but the structure was such that very often if you wanted to vote for a couple of categories in a certain field you have to pick which field you were going to vote in so for example if you knew a lot about bluegrass you want to vote in the bluegrass album well then one of your fields to choose would have to be the folk field and so there were other field best traditional best contemporary whole why and native american for a while there was polka there was the cajun and zydeco and people would vote in these other categories even if they didn't know them as well because you had to select a certain number of fields that was one of your fields you didn't want to waste your vote they've restructured it this year in a couple of ways first of all in the categories you have probably heard that they eliminated a number of categories this year they combined a few things and the whole why it album is now part of the best various veins are now all put together in that one there were in the original list of eligible albums there were about eighty one i'm sorry no there were fifty five albums that made into the eligibility list for them thirteen of them happened to be hawaiian releases on some that's the first round of voting just something that the academy has said yes somebody submitted this album in that category would say yes it's eligible it fits here from that we all vote on those and the top five vote getters become the nominees so there is no guarantee that there is going to be a white album in that category this year but there is a george jr album made up of the five nominees the other nominees there are three cajuns article albums and there's one polka album and then one whole wian so it'll be an interesting challenge to see who takes the award this year but they also restructured how we get to vote on things they've broken it out now instead of having to select eight or nine fields and then you can vote for the ones in those fields there are about eighty categories total and we are permitted now to choose any twenty of them so i can vote on the on the best regional roots album if i want to but not have to put votes into best folk or americana album or or best bluegrass album or something if i don't feel qualified those areas if i vote in the jazz category i can vote for best vocal jazz album and best improvised jazz solo but i don't have to vote for the best big band orchestral jazz performance if i don't feel qualified that category so i think you're going to find a bit more education going into the different photos selections so that's the idea that's the hope we'll see though usually try changes like this for a couple of years see how it flies see what people say take suggestions maybe make some more tweaks and some more changes of course we'll all know the answers february twelfth that's when the grammy awards will be broadcast and announced on c b s television so i've already sent in my my ballot so you can't  can't bribe me anymore at this point there is one other hawaiian album however the did get a nomination this year and that was daniel hose solo piano album reaction plays piano and bass on there but most of the tunes of there about  half originals and half arrangements of hawaiian songs and so it got a nomination for best pop instrumental so be interesting to see how that one does he's up against some pretty big names though unlike the smooth jazz world and stuff so just being nominated it's all there on its own so you want to talk a little bit about moving forward i mean we've just done some looking backwards to talk about moving forward about hawaiian concerts first of all i had compiled a list this is again something i did for the radio show but i thought i'd zip through it real fast your kind of hawaiian concerts that came through this area in two thousand and eleven so we'll just put on the glasses long way he's not only a great player but he's also a fine guitarist and songwriter he was doing he was he was just kind of doing a little bit of everything and it was like on him believe what a surprise he's done a couple of albums here and he took over a lot of jake's classes when jake started touring he couldn't teach any longer ok so who else that you're glenda's on her boat a junior made it through february for a house concert their flight was delayed so their house concert got started very late in the evening but there were enough people there that they doing a show not layo was here in the area in june in july score summer months when it really gets going july august and september july we saw nathan kilometer and several shows in the region from lead  did a performance and then amy this was for the western arts alliance amy and i really did a little showcase set a jazz alley a twenty minute set just blew people away and that same evening led cop on and mike over did some shows these are for people who are going to about what's coming up in two thousand and twelve i mention that the hawaii radio connection folks were going to do a special event i will be there unfortunately but on january fourteenth the second saturday of the month the show's going to broadcast live in the morning from corner kitchen for the jam session that takes place there on the second saturday in the mornings that's what i was saying that you probably see here uncle danny and uncle bernie and uncle rod all together well interesting because daniel fourteen through the busy day january fourteenth is a busy day because you're going to be doing these two shows  know here and he's doing a free concert not a concert it's really a free workshop how the story he'll be sharing some music is bringing this guitarist and it's going to be a luncheon over at new hope church of around one hundred one three  zero four lens and the only thing our church is asking us to do is is to bring a donated item for our food pantry but that's it and there will be some available plate lunches and then that night at eight o'clock march kahala is coming through for their tour which you saw the poster information on that earlier bainbridge island westport bellevue eugene oregon the brothers cousin mary we're going to be in spokane in february on the eighteenth willie k is coming through in march kill the beam are supposed to be coming through in april is right at home and that's about it we're we've got a lot of stuff going on that's just the beginning that we haven't even begun i know all the way they were pretty much out of time because i know the bill wanted to say something at the end of the program and i think that's right are now actually that is the new head coach of the university he is norm chow who is the office of coordinating for the tennessee titans and he will start as the new head coach for with the team and he was actually called this morning whole new teams coming in but anyway i'm going to do it short i'm here and then they are over there but those are the two i'm happy that the clock we've actually got about another five more minutes three or four more minutes yeah no yes so we're going to let you had a rush but i think that we can talk talk well you know i just i was looking at the at the clock up on my left it's off compared to the computer so anyway it's like to go to trial the computer yes well ok let's in this last couple minutes it's mentions of the details about cholera coming through ok bill had the poster up there and you're looking at that this is been really fun this is the first time that they've come up to the northwest actually they've been wanting to and trying to for years for years charles michael broadman charlie ricardo rupert trip they were going to come up a couple years ago rupert suffered a very severe car accident he was hit by a drunk driver close to death his body was pretty much shattered he spent a lot of time in physical rehab and he's gotten his chops back and we're so grateful that he's still around and can to are with him again so now they're going to come through there's it's going to be either at the at u p s or up here in seattle got another one in the on the twelfth will be over at the half moon bay half moon bay donovan just can't wait for us to have that they're doing a huge stay tuned because we're going to have a lot more information about this and so that's the refund and you'll be there for part of it as much of it as i can yeah as it conflicts with some classes and other activities of going on but i'm so looking forward to it because i've been hoping to see these guys up here i've not met rupert but i've i've chatted with course charlie we're kind of many times we've done some work together hoping we're going to work together in the studio soon charles michael brought me originally from this area though he's been living in hawaii for about thirty years but he's still got family here so he comes