11/25/2023 0 Comments Beamer and kaponoWhere I am now My best skill is When the heat is on Where I'll be in five… Just give me a task and let me be All By Myself That way… If I keep up writing about all the bullshit I've put up with at work. Monaco - What Do You Want From Me? They Might Be Giants - Someone Keeps Moving My Chair… These days I'm Under Pressure And I want to Get Out of This Place But I'm the boss… Like my previous story of Kalapana, they performed some pop influenced music but they were more traditionally influenced and often sang in both Hawaiian and English on the same albums and even in the same songs.Įfficiency is key i'd like to say we are bragging we're just not office And get shit done We would have half the shop crying or pissing their pants because they… ![]() They were also some of the first teachers of slack key guitar and before becoming popular musicians were making guitars and teaching for a living. Her sons Keola & Kapono Beamer became Hawaii’s favorite musical sons in the late 70’s & early 80’s. Ironically, she went on to teach Hawaiian culture at Kamehameha for almost 40 years. In 1937 she was expelled for dancing the hula at school. As a young girl she attended Kamehameha School which was run by missionaries that forbid hula from being performed at the school. Winona Beamer is credited with being one of the earliest proponents of the ancient form of hula by teaching and public performances. I won’t bore you with the whole family tree but arguably no other family has contributed more to Hawaii’s musical culture in both hula and music than the Beamers. In January of 2018, Keola was appointed Board Chair of Aloha Kuamoʻo ʻĀina, a 501c3 non-profit formed for the protection and preservation of the Kuamoʻo Battlefield and Burial Grounds in Kona, Hawaii.One of the first families of Hawaiian music, the Beamers can trace their musical roots back to King Kamehameha (Hawaii’s first king). He is an Award-Winning Author and Artistic Director of The Mohala Hou Foundation, which presents Aloha Music Camp. ![]() Keola was also the author of the first written instruction book for the Hawaiian Slack Guitar, published in 1972. Keola established himself early as a leader of the wave of contemporary Hawaiian music when he wrote the classic Honolulu City Lights – which is still one of the absolute all-time best-selling recordings in the history of Hawaiian music. So Keola's talent is in his blood, inherited from over five generations of musical and artistic lineage. The Beamers trace their roots to royal families of the 14th century and have been cultural practitioners through generations. Keola’s mother, Aunty Nona Beamer, continues to be revered as a Hawaiian cultural treasure and his great-grandmother was one of Hawaiʻi’s most illustrious composers, Helen Desha Beamer. His wife Moanalani Beamer joins Keola in performances with her beautiful hula and the exquisite sounds of traditional Hawaiian instruments. ![]() Keola was one of the first to use the Hawaiian slack-key technique to create contemporary music at home on jazz or classical stages. He is a Hawaiian legend: singer-songwriter, composer, guitar master, with an impeccable, gorgeous style featured on The Descendants soundtrack and his 17 CDs. Keola Beamer has breathed new life into slack-key guitar music yet stays true to its deeply Hawaiian roots. “Keola Beamer’s style is the best there is on the planet,” says Willie Nelson.
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