Filmed in the historic Hawai`œi Theatre, this national PBS special features Hawai`œi's best musicians, singers and dancers on DVD. Performances by The Brothers Cazimero, Na Leo, HAPA, Makaha Sons, Amy & Willie, O'Brian Eselu, Jake Shimabukuro and many others.

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Bring award winning Hawaiian musician, Teresa Bright, back home with you, for a private `ukulele lesson! Beginning `Ukulele Volume 1 is a fun and easy instructional DVD that introduces you to the three fundamental `ukulele chords that are used in many popular Hawaiian songs! Learn to play and sing three of Teresa's favorite recordings, from the comfort of your own home! The perfect and creative gift for loved ones near and far!

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Raiatea Helm, Hawai‘i’s only Two-Time Hawai‘i Female Vocalist of the Year, Twice Grammy® Nominated, and Seven-Time Na Hoku Hanohano Award Winner, delivers a stunning performance of traditional and contemporary Hawaiian songs in her DVD debut Raiatea Live!  Filmed at the historic Hawai‘i Theatre Center on her 25th Birthday, Raiatea Live! captures all of the excitement, beauty, and charisma of Hawai‘i’s premiere female vocalist.

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Go Beyond `œIsland Style' and `œAcoustic Soul.' This documentary film is the heartwarming story of John's life. Sometimes uplifting and other times bittersweet, it is an honest, revealing story that has never before been told. The music is intimate, powerful and exhilarating. The interviews are hilarious, intense and inspiring. John's friends Jack Johnson, Jackson Browne, Kelly Slater and Jake Shimabukuro stopped by to add color and insight into one of Hawaii's best-loved performers. As an added indulgence, it's jam-packed with new music and with all the favorite songs John's fans love.

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Kili has designed this program to allow the beginner to learn a choreographed hula dance while experiencing an aerobic workout at the same time. Filmed on the beautiful beaches of Maui. Learn More

This uniquely designed program combines hula and fitness to target your heart rate and speed up your metabolism. Combined with a healthy diet, Hula Workout for Weight Loss is a great form of exercise for noticeable results. Learn More

Kili welcomes you to Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, to learn Cardio Hula. This program is an exciting part of her popular Island Girl dance fitness series. Hula is a graceful Hawaiian tradition that uses hip movements, footwork, and hand motions to speed up your metabolism and target tone your entire body. Learn More

Tahitian Cardio Kili invites you to Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, to experience the popular Island Girlâ„¢ dance fitness series. Tahitian dance is the most sensual of the South Pacific, and can also be a challenging workout. Kili demonstrates this unique dance method she calls her "“ ;secret weapon" for keeping in shape and having a bathing suit-ready body all year long.

Kili has designed this workout to specifically target and tone legs, buns, and abs. You will learn three basic Tahitian moves: `œami, figure 8, and Tahitian bump. Combined with fitness steps, these moves offer an innovative and creative Tahitian Cardio workout to help you lose weight and shape the entire body. Learn More

Hula Abs and Buns Join Kili in Hawaii, her beautiful homeland, as she shares her love for the hula dance. As part of her popular Island Girl dance fitness series, this graceful and unique tradition is also an amazing workout. Hula is Kili's favorite way for toning hard buns and tight abs.

In the program, Kili combines traditional hula with fitness moves. You will master eight basic hula steps: kaholo, hela, double hela, kawelu, kao, ku'i, kalakaua and ami. This dynamic combination delivers amazing results as you dance your way to a slim, toned body with Hula Abs & Buns. Learn More

This 80 minute feature length documentary, the seventh in the Kamaes' award-winning Hawaiian Legacy Series, tells the story of a charismatic band. Spanning forty years of Hawai'i's rich musical tradition, the film offers an intimate look at a unique group of performers and composers: their songs, their humor, their devotions to a sound that continues to convey something essential about the Hawaiian spirit. Master of Hawaiian Chant, Ka'upena Wong stated, "Brother Eddie and The Sons were pioneers in the revival of Hawaiian music. . . their sound had that sincere folk quality to it, it made everyone stand up and take notice."

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Waves of Change will change the way that you think of Lahaina and see Lahaina forever. Whether you are a visitor to the islands or home grown....you will be captivated and enriched by this film. Lahaina will be forever more than one of the most beautiful and exotic places on earth, but one that spiritually connects the Hawaiian people from ancient times to present day.

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Those Who Came Before tells the story of a young Hawaiian `ukulele virtuoso’s journey of musical self-discovery and how it turned into a 50-year pursuit of Hawaiian cultural and musical traditions.

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Sam Li‘a was a Hawaiian song composer who spent his life in the remote valley of Waipi‘o on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. There he perpetuated the tradition of celebrating the beauty of one’s place and memorializing the events of its people. Among the musicians inspired by Sam Li‘a is Eddie Kamae, a major force in the revival of Hawaiian music. In this film, he translates his gratitude and love for Li‘a into a visual song, in which music, place and people find their original harmony.
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This award winning one-hour documentary by celebrated filmmakers Eddie and Myrna Kamae, pays tribute to the role of the Kupuna (elders) in preserving Hawaiian culture. It focuses on the legacies of three respected Hawaiian elders whose lives bridged the transition from older times into the late 20th century. They are Ruth Makaila Kaholoa‘a, age 93, of the Big Island; Lilia Wahinemaika‘i Hale, age 85 of O‘ahu and Molokai; and Reverend David “Kawika” Ka‘alakea, age 78, of Maui. Learn More

This film is a moving journey into the beauty and meaning of Hawaiian slack key music. Award-winning director Eddie Kamae’s rare combination of master musician and cinematic storyteller is the key to showing how Hawaii’s cultural traditions and the k ho-‘alu guitar intertwine – and opening the door to a greater love of that music. 

Candid interviews and archival images combine with the music of many virtuoso performers, from legendary Fred Punahou and Gabby Pahinui to Raymond Kane and today’s Ledward Kaapana, to tell the slack key story from the 1830s to the present.  It shows you how this music perpetuates family tradition as songs, techniques and special string tunings are passed from one generation to the next.

All the main islands are visited, including seldom seen Ni‘ihau, as Eddie Kamae explores this most Hawaiian music and its links with the people and places that have nourished it.

 

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Listen To The Forest, an environmental documentary by award-winning musician and filmmaker Eddie Kamae, speaks to the widespread concern for rainforest preservation. It is about the Hawaiian Islands, and also about a Hawaiian way of feeling. A film for all ages, Listen To The Forest emphasizes the powerful connection between a unique natural history and Hawaii’s rich cultural life.

Combining interviews, traditional chants, and original songs and dances, this film from the beloved Hawaiian Legacy Series, gives voice to an older form of ecological wisdom summed up in the phrase ma-lama ‘a-ina – to take care of the earth – which is both our physical home and a source of spiritual nourishment. Learn More

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 16, 2010

Award-winning documentarian and musician Eddie Kamae brings you another powerful story of Hawai`i.

Eddie Kamae is a native Hawaiian singer, `ukulele virtuoso, composer and co-founder of the legendary Sons of Hawai`i music group.  In 1986, he launched The Hawaiian Legacy Series in the belief that Hawaiian voices, language, music and cultural wisdom, preserved on film, would be an enriching experience for everyone. 

This award-winning, one-hour documentary pays tribute to the untamed spirit of a colorful and controversial Hawaiian man.  Known throughout the islands and descended from a line of warrior chiefs, Luther Makekau was part philospher and part outlaw, a chanter and a singer, a fighter and a lover, a cattle rustler, a rebel and a poet. 

Born on Maui in 1890, during the reign of King Kala-kaua, he lived nearly a hundred years, shaped by a century of turbulent cultural change.

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