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Aloha everyone,

My Hawaiian band Haopinaka made our first studio recordings recently and some videos with our hula dancers to go with them.

I am playing a 1930 National Style 1 Tricone, except for a 1937 Kay Electric Hawaiian Deluxe in"Lahaina Luna".

Enjoy, thanks all forumites! I appreciate all the help and knowledge I've received from y'all.

Peter Garellick

Here's a sampler video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlaXjh9R1GE

And here's "Ulupalakua," a Hawaiian cowboy song, reimagined as an old Western Movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U9AzPtvXPo

Loved it!

No exposure to that kind of music here on the Texas/Mexican border.

We did have a bar called No Ka Oi Lounge a couple of decades ago.

No laughing but plenty of smiles. That was cool!

Well thank you kindly Lee! Glad you enjoyed the music.

There's an interesting back story to the song "Ulupalakua" and the video we made. Most people don't know that there were cowboys in Hawaii before there were cowboys in Texas!

Here is a little snippet of info about that:

In 1832, Kamehameha III sent one of his high chiefs to California to hire cowboys who could round up wild cattle and teach Hawaiians cattle and horse handling skills. Three Mexican-Spanish vaquero (cowboys) named Kossuth, Louzeida and Ramon began working on Hawai`i island, first breaking in horses to turn them into working animals, then rounding up and handling hordes of cattle.

Hawaii's cowboys became known as paniolo, a corruption of español, the language the vaquero spoke. The term still refers to cowboys working in the Islands and to the culture their lifestyle spawned.

Hawaiians proved themselves avid students, quickly picking up horsemanship, roping and other skills. Hawaiians became paniolo before the territories of the American West had cowboy or ranch traditions. Cowboys in the Pacific Northwest got their start in 1846; in California and Texas it was 1848. Because Hawaiians began their work with cattle and horses earlier, their paniolo traditions were strongly shaped by the Mexican vaquero heritage that stemmed originally from Spain.

My son and his wife just landed in Hawaii about an hours ago so I sent them them the first video as a welcome. I thought it was great. Told him to go but a few BIC LIGHTER'S.

Haha

Thank you Don and Bill. greatly appreciate the encouragement!