Your support is needed!
Aloha,
As many of you may already know, Mom and I were involved with the recording of a CD last year with several other kumu hula in California. Our CD, Kapi'olani has been nominated for a Hawaiian Music Award. These awards are "people's choice" awards, and voting is taking place now through February 4. ANYONE WITH A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS CAN VOTE ONCE PER DAY!
I am humbly asking for your support - The web address to vote is http://www.hawaiimusicawards.com/ We are in the Traditional Hawaiian Music category, the CD is called Kapi'olani and has a picture of a red hibiscus on the cover.
There is more information below.
Mahalo for your support!
Kealoha
Please forward to everyone. Mahalo!!
Our second CD, Kapi'olani, is entered in the "Traditional Hawaiian Music" category for the Hawai'i Music Awards. The awards are determined entirely by popular vote online. Anyone with a valid email address may vote once per day, and if you have multiple email addresses, you may vote once each day from each address.
You can read about "Kapi'olani" (including the wonderful reviews we received in the Honolulu newspapers) on Daniel Ho Creations website:
http://www.danielho .com/html/ kapiolani. html
Last year, we learned that the winning CD received 1200 votes. Our Kalakaua CD was in second place with something like 450 votes. Surely we can do better this year!
What is at stake here is BRINGING RECOGNITION TO THE HERITAGE WE ARE FOSTERING:
- by pooling the talents of award-winning kumu hula,
- by creating contemporary renditions of historical sources,
- by packaging the mele with scholarly integrity, and
- by adhering to the highest standards of artistic and engineering excellence.
Here is the link to the Hawaii Music Awards site to vote:
http://www.hawaiimu sicawards. com/
"Kapi'olani" is in the "Traditional Hawaiian" category. BE SURE YOU FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS AND GO TO THE REVIEW PAGE TO SUBMIT ALL VOTES.
Voting ends on February 4. If everyone votes daily, everyone will add 12 votes per email address to our cause. Please consider supporting our endeavor as well as Hawaiian music generally. And PLEASE SHARE THIS MESSAGE AND APPEAL WIDELY!!