Lilikoi Vine
"What's the latest trumors..."
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January 19th, 2002
As we say Aloha 2002 and
bye bye to 2001 and the bad memories that enveloped our
country after 9-11, We've been all touched by the tragedy of
September 11. I hope, more than anything the event made you
appreciate your family more and the lives we lead in this
country. Be happy for what we got and appreciate it every
day... I want to send out some Mahalo's to a number of
people who make the two shows run and are fun at the same
time, which is not an easy task to do. Mahalo Nui Loa to
Craig, Dennis, Alisha & Staff at KXPA for giving us the 8am
time slot so we can keep our Hawaiian audience happy in the
morning. Mahalo Nui to Steve, Christin & Bruce at KBCS for
making the station the best its ever been in the 10 years of
broadcasting our show. KBCS has more power now, a new tower,
lot's of new equipment for better sound quality-as well as
have an awesome website. We love you. Now get us a two-hour
show and we'll be even happier!!! Yep, we'll be patient.
Major kudos to Steve for bringing up Hawaiian Artists, the
shows have been wonderful...What to watch for in '02. We are
in the process of reshuffling our line up a bit. On KBCS,
the first Saturday we’ll feature Sista Kulina & Uncle Gregg.
They get good chemistry, like fine poi!?!? We bring on a new
member to the Ohana. Rachel DelaCruz will join us on the 4th
Saturday with Sista Kulina & Aunty Moody. Rachel is an
English teacher and does a great on-air segment on Hawaii
Public Radio. She starts in Feb. It’ll be all Wahine radio.
We will be updating the web site more (My Bad for not doing
it all the time). We hope to be going to two hours sometime
in the future on KBCS 91.3FM. Call or Write the managers and
request it. On KXPA, we’ll try to involve our sponsors a
little more with fun give-away’s and promotions for you our
wonderful listening Ohana. Take Care of yourself and keep in
touch.
Mahalo A Nui Loa for you
support.
Stephen "Braddah" Gomes |
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Da Lilikoi Vine "What Da
Latest Rumors" - July 31st 2002 -
We're almost at the halfway point of summer. Are you
squeezing every bit of fun out of it? I'm doing my best,
Hawaiian style… "Hooo da good fun dis year's summer
fest!" That was the overwhelming feeling at the
2002 Hawaiian Summer Festival, the preeminent
ho'olaulea in Wakinikona at Kennedy High School in
Burien.
This year's 'Fest was very well attended, unlike last
year, when it was held on the fourth Saturday in July,
an unwelcome change from the historical third Saturday
in July. Highlights of the event include: Uncles
Larry Awana & Larry Kanahele (singing lead), with
the other Uncles in the Wakinikona Band, started
out the event. They were smooth. Aunty Claire
Cortez's halau brought down the house with Tahitian
dancing! "Wow!" is what people were saying as they
watched all 50 members of her halau dancing at one time.
They got the crowd going!!! Cute scene: All the keiki,
under five years of age, performing together. Napua,
from our Radio Ohana, was belting out the music,
and her halau was awesome with their mix of Hawaiian and
Tahitian performances. The warm weather made the
cafeteria a bit hot & muggy - just like Hawaii this time
of year. Thank goodness for Johnnie Pine-Apple.
He was making really ono shave ice; that buggah hit da
spot…
In Silverdale over the July 27th weekend, Hui Hei Hei
Wa'a O Puget Sound Canoe Club featured a day of
canoe racing at the Whaling Days event. The race was
significant in a couple of ways:
1) It's the first time anyone can remember a Hawaiian
Canoe Regatta being billed as the main event, as
part of its line up of entertainment for a major
Northwest celebration, and:
2) The Hui put together canoe teams that featured
workers from area businesses. The amazing part was that
many participants had never seen a Hawaiian outrigger
canoe, much less paddle in one. Even more amazing, most
of the races were exciting - no joke!!! I hosted the
event and noticed how successful the concept was.
Business owners and employees all say they had a great
time. Mahalo to Aunty Lori LaFontaine for her
all-out effort and aloha. The opening ceremony, which
she choreographed, was beautiful as the Hui welcomed the
canoe paddlers who won the bronze medal in Bora Bora,
Tahiti recently. Before the ceremony, it was windy
and rough on Dyes Inlet. As Aunty Healani started
chanting, the inlet calmed. Talk about chicken skin!!! A
deep mahalo to Aunty Lani, for her brilliance as
a co-host to moi. Mahalo also to Uncle Mike,
Auntie Healani, and everyone I got to meet. It was
fantastic! Auntie Lani said it perrrrrfectly: "What
you saw today was the aloha spirit." Well said.
Let's take the aloha spirit to another level in the
summer of 2002. Aloha…A Hui Hou!
Braddah Gomes |
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Da Lilikoi Vine "What Da
Latest Rumors" - September 3rd 2002 -
Aloha and welcome to the last few months of Twenty-OOO-Two.
Hope you had (Yep, pas-tense) a wonderful summer. I sure
did!!! Palahoe (BBQ) almost every weekend, and went to a
number of Hawaiian events. It was wonderful seeing and
talking story with our many listeners. You folks are so
Maikai!!!
Visiting us at Uwajimaya, the Hawaiian Summer
Festival, the Ka Ohana Aloha Festival and
other events-MAHALO… Hope you enjoyed the "All in the
Radio Ohana" show over the Labor Day weekend. It was
nice to hear from all 11 of our hosts of both HRC and
HRC-Elua. We intend to play that program on some future
date…Mark this date down. January 4th, 2003.
According to KBCS management we could potentially
be going to a two hour program at the beginning of the
year. Went to the meeting regarding this and it looks
very promising, except for the criticism we received
from a very unprofessional and negative host from
another radio show. Not sure what her problem is but she
didn't show much Aloha Spirit with her antics. Other
hosts at KBCS were very supportive of our show and
aghast at her antics. Hopefully, one day she'll feel the
Aloha Spirit and what it's about… Even though the
weather will start to be grey & cold I'm looking forward
to several Hawaiian Events to bring the warmth of Hawaii
into our lives.
Look for Host's of the Radio Ohana to participate in a
number of events including the "Battle of the Bands"
and the "Ledward Kaapana Concert." They should be
a lot of fun, and warm things up for us… Most exciting
is the possible return to the Hawaii Radio Connection
airwaves of Uncle Kamuela. He was our Hawaiian
expert when HRC first started, but had to stop the show
to finishing Grad School. He is now Dr. Kamuela. He may
be back this Fall. Let's hope this happens!!!
Aloha…
A Hui Hou-Braddah Gomes. |
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Da Lilikoi Vine "What Da
Latest Rumors" - October 18th 2002 -
I just don't understand Wakinikona sometimes?!?!
Beautiful weather in the fall, when it is usually dark,
wet and cold. Three, not one, but three Hawaiian events
all on the same day, Sunday October 20th , and an
ongoing scandal of a pretender who is stealing people's
hard earned money all in the name of Aloha & Hula. It's
enough to get you concerned that the end is near. At
least, if it happens soon- I did get to see Ledward
Kaapana at BCC on Sunday Oct. 13th astound, blow-away
and dazzle the crowd into a standing ovation. Awesome
site-seeing Auntie Moody dance to Ledwards' signature
song "Ikona." Full of emotion and watery eyed she says,
"I've danced to the song before, but this is the first
time I was able to dance to it by the artists who made
the song so famous." Most of the Radio Ohana took in the
event: Sista Kulina looking as gorgeous as eva, Cousin
Clarice laughing at all our jokes, Auntie Rochelle
cracking great one liners and Uncle Ed visiting with all
the listeners. All of us left feeling the Aloha spirit
and enough chicken skin to pass around to all that
attended the event. Mahalo to Kalabash Uncle Steve
Ramsey for putting the concert together, "dat fulla is
Akamai." Owana Salazaar opened for Led. She was
fantastic. Check out her new CD "Slack & Steel." We'll
be playing a lot of songs from it…Concern is mounting in
the Seattle promoters circle regarding outsiders who put
on programs on the same day or weekend while other
functions are going on. Hopefully we can produce some
form of business round table and plan out a calendar of
events for everyone. This way we can avoid this form of
debacle from happening again. People will be losing
money on this. Part of the problem is people were hard
head in thinking the Seattle market can sustain these
many acts at one time. One act is a tough sell as it is.
Remember "Polynesian Jam?!?!"… A word of caution, if
someone asks you to donate money to a Hula competition,
ask them if you can talk with other members of the
competition to find out where the money is going. If the
event is legitimate, they'll have no problem confirming
what they are trying to do with there partners. If not,
just say "Mahalo, but no thank you!" We have a snake in
our community that needs to be stopped. Law enforcement
is investigating the slippery bugga right now. As we get
more info we'll tell you all about it… It's time to end
this article. Hope the end isn't coming soon, 'cause we
gotta enjoy this wonderful weather and take in at least
one concert on the 20th so we can talk about it when the
days turn dark, cold and wet.
Aloha…A Hui Hou, Braddah Gomes |
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Aloha…A hui hou,
Stephen “Braddah” Gomes |
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