Welcome to Hawaiian Skies, the in-flight video magazine of Hawaiian Airlines. In our latest edition, we visit two very different museums…hear top pianists in action…go bouldering without a rope…experience the beauty of hula…catch a windsurfing competition at the sport’s spiritual home…meet the family that sets the standard for ukulele making…and witness artists doing what they do best.
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The ukulele isn’t the only instrument that’s big in Hawai‘i. Each year, top pianists from around the world make their way to the Islands for a week of music in paradise.
Thanks to the success of a new generation of musicians led by Jake Shimabukuro, the ukulele is riding a wave of popularity these days. But the little instrument has been big in Hawai‘i ever since its introduction a century ago.
The diversity of Hawai‘i. The beauty of Hawai‘i. The soul of Hawai‘i. It’s all there in the music of Hawai‘i, and there’s no better place to experience it than at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. In this story, Kuuipo Kumukahi, President of the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts, gives us a personal introduction to these prestigious awards and explains what they mean to the artists and to the Islands.
Viewers of Hawaiian Skies were recently treated to a special edition of Hawaiian Skies featuring a true musical treasure, singer Emma Veary. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, Veary has performed many of Hawaii’s favorite songs at a number of iconic venues.
Our most recent edition of Hawaiian Skies included a story on Hawaii Public Radio, featuring Derrick Malama and his "Kanikapila Sunday" show on KIPO 89.3. Derrick plays an anthology of Hawaiian music from yesterday and tomorrow, and always has very interesting guests.
Giving voice to a venerable Island tradition, practitioners of oli – the Hawaiian art of chanting – serve as living links to the past. Filmmaker Ruben Carillo and Dawn Kaniaupio focused on three modern practitioners of oli in his award-winning documentary Mana I Ka Leo: Power of the Voice.
In our most recent Hawaiian Skies in-flight video magazine, we were pleased to feature one of Hawaii’s most popular and influential musicians: Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, or “IZ” as he was commonly known. From his early days with the group the Makaha Sons of Ni‘ihau to his successful solo career, IZ took the music of Hawai‘i to a new place – and won fans throughout the Islands and around the world.
The film One Voice, also profiled in this edition of Hawaiian Skies, is just one of the many stories of Hawai‘i to have been produced by the non-profit organization Pacific Islanders in Communications.
As the tagline of the film One Voice says, “This is no ordinary high school musical.”
Practitioners and lovers of the distinctly Hawaiian art of hula look forward to the Merrie Monarch Festival all year. Televised statewide, it is the world’s foremost showcase of hula, with “halau,” or schools of hula, demonstrating their mastery of the dance’s various forms.
