{"id":72138,"date":"2017-05-10T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=72138"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:01:57","slug":"40th-annual-na-hoku-hanohano-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/40th-annual-na-hoku-hanohano-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hokus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72139\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72139\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/mw-cover-051017-na-hoku-hanohano-ac-08-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72139\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured are (from left) Wade Cambern, IZIK, Robi Kahakalau, Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts board member and officer Kawena Mechler and president Pali Ka&#x2018;aihue, and Bryan Kessler at Kani Ka Pila Grille at the Outrigger Reef Waikiki Beach Resort<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<h3>The 40th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards celebrate the best in Hawaii&#8217;s music &#x2014; and also will host big reunions from Hawaiian Style Band and Pure Heart<\/h3>\n<p>It was during a long car ride to Los Angeles that songstress Robi Kahakalau dropped something of a bombshell on her unsuspecting companions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Robi goes, &#x2018;Hey, I got news for you,'&#8221; recalls Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts president Pali Ka&#x2018;aihue, who was riding with her and slack-key musician Kawika Kahiapo that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hawaiian Style Band is getting back together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group, known for its &#8217;90s mega-hits like <em>Love &#038; Honesty<\/em> and <em>Live A Little<\/em>, has had an ever-shifting succession of collaborators, but its three founding members &#x2014; Wade Cambern, Bryan Kessler and Kahakalau &#x2014; have not performed together since those halcyon days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72140\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72140\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/mw-cover-051017-nhh-last-year-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72140\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halau Of New Hope performs at last year&#8217;s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards show<br \/><strong>PHOTO COURTESY MELE MEI<\/strong><br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Both Kawika and I were completely freaking out,&#8221; Ka&#x2018;aihue continues, &#8220;and immediately I&#8217;m thinking, Hokus, perform at the Hokus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a natural thought. The Na Hoku Hanohano Awards are Hawaii&#8217;s Grammys, the ultimate musical honor for Hawaii-born and -based performers, composers and producers.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the awards celebrate 40 years as a champion of local music, a place where the &#8220;stars of distinction,&#8221; old and new, shine on.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>THE PAST<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It was the late Victor Opiopio, better known to the masses as KCCN&#8217;s Krash Kealoha, who came up with the idea of a Hawaii-exclusive music awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He thought they should be a celebration and an awards ceremony to really reflect &#x2026; Hawaii&#8217;s great artists and compositions and songs,&#8221; Ka&#x2018;aihue says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72141\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72141\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/mw-cover-051017-na-hoku-hanohano-ac-03-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72141\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaiian Style Band: Bryan Kessler, Robi Kahakalau and Wade Cambern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With the help of his boss, Sydney Grayson, and fellow DJs Kimo Kahoano and Jacqueline &#8220;Skylark&#8221; Rossetti, Kealoha presented the first-ever Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, winners were chosen by the public. Industry professionals formed HARA in 1982, and the group took over judging the rapidly growing show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You get to become a HARA voting member by having a recording credit on any kind of music project or DVD, CD singles, EPs &#x2014; any of that counts,&#8221; Ka&#x2018;aihue explains. &#8220;That allows you to vote on the awards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72142\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72142\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/mw-cover-051017-na-hoku-hanohano-ac-02-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72142\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HARA president Pali Ka\u2018aihue<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An initial screening committee ensures each entry is a valid release in the appropriate category before lists are forwarded to HARA members, who select the final nominees and winners from that pool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HARA is full of different creators, different artists, people who are in the industry. They&#8217;re your peers, basically. So, to receive a Na Hoku Hanohano Award, for me, it&#8217;s a little bit of validation,&#8221; muses IZIK, a first-time nominee this year in the contemporary album and most promising artist categories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s also just nice to know that other musicians know who you are,&#8221; he adds with a laugh.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>THE PRESENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This year&#8217;s Na Hoku Hanohano Awards is all about celebrating the old, the new and the old-made-new-again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have some incredible first-time artists who are releasing, we have some incredible former Na Hoku-winning artists who are submitting new work, and then we have iconic artists who we wanted to bring in and be a part of the celebration,&#8221; Ka&#x2018;aihue explains.<\/p>\n<p>One of two big reunions that night involves, of course, Hawaiian Style Band (see sidebar).<\/p>\n<p>The other trio of titans is Pure Heart.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72143\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72143\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/mw-cover-051017-na-hoku-hanohano-ac-01-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72143\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IZIK<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jake Shimabukuro, Jon Yamasato and Lopaka Colon will perform together for the first time in years, alongside John Cruz, in a special memorial to Ernie and Guy Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than just do something where it was having some of (Ka&#x2018;au Crater Boys and Ernie&#8217;s) songs performed, we thought that it would be such a great way to pay tribute and have a reunion,&#8221; Ka&#x2018;aihue says.<\/p>\n<p>Other confirmed performers this year include Keauhou, Raiatea Helm, Amy Hanaiali&#x2018;i Gilliom, Kawika Kahiapo, Hoku Zuttermeister, Kunia Galdeira, Cyril Pahinui Band, Na Leo Pilimehana, Kalani Pe&#x2018;a, Jeff Peterson, IZIK, Yoza and more.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>THE FUTURE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Na Hoku Hanohano Award winners don&#8217;t get money (though they do get a nice trophy). But they receive something even more valuable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The phone was ringing more after (our first win in 1991),&#8221; remembers Kessler. &#8220;The music got played a lot more on the radio around that time, leading up to it, afterward &#x2014; pretty much every radio station in Hawaii was playing something from our albums.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_72144\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72144\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/05\/mw-cover-051017-na-hoku-hanohano-ac-05-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72144\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-72144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HARA board member and officer Kawena Mechler<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a real thrill, when you put your heart into something and you&#8217;re driving with your friend in the car, and all of a sudden here&#8217;s your song on the radio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Publicity still is part of the package, but Ka&#x2018;aihue reflects that the industry has changed a lot in 40 years. Brick-and-mortar stores are mostly gone, and even radio has diminished as a dominant source of music consumption. People are getting their music from new places.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s more digital, MP3s and iTunes and Amazon Music and stuff,&#8221; he muses.<\/p>\n<p>That makes the exposure the Hokus can provide even more important.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of emphasis today, he says, on getting people out to live performances. Nowadays, in fact, the awards serve as an anchor to a larger, more expansive campaign of Hawaiian music: Mele Mei, which facilitates a three-month storm of live Hawaiian music that spans the island chain, the Mainland and even Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the genres of Hawaii artists have also increased,&#8221; Ka&#x2018;aihue says, &#8220;and (the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards) are very reflective of what young artists are inspired by nowadays. We have so many more categories than when we originally started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the last 10 years, he adds, the show has added categories like ukulele, alternative music and slack key.<\/p>\n<p>Ka&#x2018;aihue foresees future Na Hoku Hanohano Awards continuing to acknowledge and incorporate this increasing diversity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that the awards can be reflective of the industry and the artists and what&#8217;s going on and still be able to celebrate at this grand scale, and still be able to celebrate new artists and iconic artists &#x2014; it&#8217;s a great thing, a special thing. It says a lot about Hawaii and the community and our support of each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably the Hokus will have to be a week long,&#8221; he jokes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The 40th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards will take place at 5:15 p.m. May 20 at Hawaii Convention Center. Tickets cost $175 general admission, $150 kamaaina and $135 for HARA members. For more information, as well as a full list of nominees, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nahokuhanohano.org\" target=\"_blank\">nahokuhanohano.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>Hawaiian Style Band<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>So, what got the band back together?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about time,&#8221; Robi Kahakalau says. &#8220;We&#8217;re celebrating our 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the passing of Ernie Cruz Jr., we thought life is too short to let it go by. And we just thought it&#8217;d be nice to get together and make things happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enough time went by where we all felt it was time to revisit the music and the band and the friendship, and it&#8217;s been fun,&#8221; adds Bryan Kessler. &#8220;The keys are a bit lower, but the music&#8217;s still there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So after the Hokus are done, what&#8217;s next? The band promises this isn&#8217;t just a one-time gig &#x2014; they&#8217;re back, for real.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re available for work,&#8221; jokes Wade Cambern, adding that a new recordings may well be in the future, somewhere, sometime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 40th annual Na Hoku Hanohano Awards celebrate the best in Hawaii&#8217;s music &#x2014; and also will host big reunions..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":72139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Hokus - MidWeek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/40th-annual-na-hoku-hanohano-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Hokus - 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