{"id":179951,"date":"2023-07-07T10:56:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=179951"},"modified":"2023-07-07T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T22:17:45","slug":"uh-maui-na-hoku-hanohano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/07\/uh-maui-na-hoku-hanohano\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College associate professor\u2019s musical group wins N\u0101 H\u014dk\u016b Hanohano awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_179968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179968\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kapiolani-na-hoku-awards.jpeg\" alt=\"4 people with their awards\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-179968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kapiolani-na-hoku-awards.jpeg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kapiolani-na-hoku-awards-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/kapiolani-na-hoku-awards-130x73.jpeg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-179968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second from left: Keola Donaghy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> Maui College<\/a> Associate Professor Keola Donaghy, along with his musical group <span aria-label=\"Aeae\">A&#699;ea&#699;e<\/span>, won two N&#257; H&#333;k&#363; Hanohano Awards in July&#59; for Group of the Year and Hawaiian <abbr>EP<\/abbr> (Extended Play) of the Year&#59; for their eponymous debut <abbr>EP<\/abbr> of country flavored, contemporary Hawaiian music.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Aeae\">A\u02bbea\u02bbe<\/span> means, &ldquo;Mixing of a dark or brilliant color with a lighter one, as feathers in a lei&#59; of dark hair of a young person with streaks of gray.&rdquo; Members include Maui residents Donaghy and Tarvin Makia, <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O\u02bbahu<\/span> resident Kenneth Makuak\u0101ne, Nashville-based Jeff &ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Lokomaikai\">Lokomaika\u02bbi<\/span>&rdquo; Dayton and M&#257;puana M&#257;kia. Most have been long-time friends and occasional collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For me, the biggest thrill was sharing the stage with my friends Tarvin and Jeff and my niece, M&#257;puana,&rdquo; said Donaghy. &ldquo;It was also a thrill to have Gaylord Holomalia of Kalapana and Israel <span aria-label=\"Kamakawiwoole\">Kamakawiwo\u02bbole<\/span>&#8216;s band join us on keyboard. Gaylord wrote &ldquo;Lover of Mine,&rdquo; and my Hawaiian interpretation of it was one of the songs we performed. It was just an amazing night.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/02\/uh-maui-college-free-music-composing-course\/\">Record your own mele! <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College offers free music composing course<\/a>, May 2, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donaghy is the faculty coordinator of music studies at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College, and is a prolific haku mele (composer of Hawaiian language poetry). His compositions have been recorded by <span aria-label=\"Kealii\">Keali\u02bbi<\/span> Reichel, The Pandanus Club, Willie <abbr>K<\/abbr>. and Amy <span aria-label=\"Hanaialii\">H\u0101naiali\u02bbi<\/span> Gilliom, the De Lima <span aria-label=\"Ohana\">\u02bbOhana<\/span>, O\u2019Brian Eselu and many others. He has produced five <abbr>CD<\/abbr>s by students in his <a href=\"https:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/ihm\/\">Institute of Hawaiian Music<\/a> program at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Maui College, which have garnered three N&#257; H&#333;k&#363; Hanohano Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the <abbr>EP<\/abbr>\u2019s five tracks are originals. Donaghy composed &ldquo;Aia I K&#299;lauea (<span aria-label=\"A\">\u02bb\u0100<\/span> Mai)&rdquo; after a visit to the <span aria-label=\"Halemaumau\">Halema\u02bbuma\u02bbu<\/span> Crater several years ago, to which Makuak&#257;ne added the music.<\/p>\n<p>Two tracks are Hawaiian interpretations of well-known English songs. &ldquo;Tennessee Whiskey&rdquo; was composed by Dean Dillon and first recorded by George Jones, and most recently reinterpreted by Chris Stapleon. After securing Dillon\u2019s blessing, Donaghy created this version in <span aria-label=\"olelo\">\u02bb\u014dlelo<\/span> <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The final track, &ldquo;I Ka <span aria-label=\"Lai\">La\u02bbi<\/span> O Lahaina,&rdquo; is a reinvisioned re-recording of one of Donaghy and Makuak&#257;ne\u2019s earliest collaborations. Jim Riley, drummer of the country music group Rascal Flatts, contributed drum tracks to the song.<\/p>\n<p>Makuak&#257;ne and Donaghy also won the Anthology of the Year award as producers of Makuak&#257;ne\u2019s anthology, <em>Huliau<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Aeae\"><em>A\u02bbea\u02bbe<\/em><\/span> is available on all major digital download and streaming services such as Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keola Donaghy and <span aria-label=\"Aeae\">A&#699;ea&#699;e<\/span> took home two big N&#257; H&#333;k&#363; Hanohano awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,33,231,133,60],"class_list":["post-179951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-hawaiian","tag-institute-of-hawaiian-music","tag-music","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179951"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179980,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179951\/revisions\/179980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}