Mele huliāmahi

A virtual performance and discussion series co-produced with Kanaeokana, Mele Huliāmahi presents mele for contemporary stories of aloha ʻāina (a relationship between people and environment) and huliāmahi (to act in unison and in great numbers).
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EPISODE 6
Mele Hoʻopulapula, Vol. 1
​November 28, 2021

Mele Huliāmahi, Episode 6 brings mele practitioners from various Hawaiian homestead lands, to share songs for homesteads—mele hoʻopulapula. This episode features mele performances by Del Beazley of Nānākuli, Kīhei Nahale-a of Keaukaha, the Napoleon ʻohana of Hoʻolehua, as well as additional adorations for Kalanianaʻole by Manu Boyd, Maelia Loebenstein-Carter, Keliʻi Ruth, and the Domingo brothers. Jonah Kahanuola Solatorio hosts these practitioners, along with Hailama Farden of Kamehameha Schools, and Tyler ʻIokepa Gomes of the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, to create a fragrant offering that honors Kalanianaʻole and 100 years of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
EPISODE 5
KŪHAʻO MAUNAKEA
JULY 17, 2021
Mele Huliāmahi, Episode 5 features music from the album, Kūhaʻo Maunakea, a collection of newly-composed mele in support of aloha ʻāina and Maunakea. Hosted by album co-producer, Chad Takatsugi, this episode features live performances and interviews with haku mele, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Kainani Kahaunaele, Zachary Lum, Ānuenue Pūnua, Keawe Lopes, Manu Boyd, and Del Beazley. The anthem of the movement, "Kū Haʻaheo e Kuʻu Hawaiʻi," is featured in music video form, highlighting the initial call for solidarity in 2019, and the response to that call in 2020.

For more information on the entire album, visit kanaeokana.net/maunakea.

Episode 4  
Virtual CD Release for Kāwili
March 12, 2021

Mele Huliāmahi, Episode 4 features music from the album Kāwili, a musical project that reinterprets traditional Philippine folksongs as Hawaiian mele, re-envisioning the encounter between Filipino and Hawaiian cultures, peoples, identities and languages in Hawai'i. Through the feelings and experiences evoked in mele, the collection of songs exposes the unseen boundaries of Filipino and Hawaiian culture in Hawaiʻi — much of those boundaries a result of plantation-era racial policies that sought to divide working people and erase Indigenous society.
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The Kāwili project strives to provide a space in which these boundaries are transformed into bridges, in which Filipino and Hawaiian hopes and goals can align in a place-based mentality.

Episode 4 is hosted by Alakaʻi Lastimado and Lance D. Collins, and features Keauhou, Ei Nei, Jeff Au Hoy, Kalena Delima and Kalaʻe Parish, Hoʻopono Wong, the Punua ʻOhana, and Eugene Tunac Marquez. Buy your copy today at mele.com!

Episode 4 was supported in part with a grant from Hawai’i Council for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Humanities.
EPISODE 3 
Virtual CD Release for Huliāmahi, Vol. 1
August 28, 2020
Celebrating aloha ʻāina through mele and the release of Huliāmahi Vol. 1!

Mele Huliāmahi features mele written for the storied places of Maui. Hosted by Cody Pueo Pata & Lance D. Collins, this show features new music by Ahumanu, Kaulike Pescaia, Kamalei Kawa'a, Zachary Lum, Nicholas Lum, Cody Pueo Pata, Po'okela Mele Wood, Frank Kaiuokalani Damas, and Zachary Lorenzo.

Proceeds from the album sales will go to Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation and support their mission to perpetuate, through legal and other advocacy, the rights, customs and practices that strengthen Native Hawaiian identity and culture.  Support NHLC & buy your copy today at mele.com!
EPISODE 2
Lei Nāhonoapiʻilani: Nā Mele Hou 
​July 17, 2020

"Mele Huliāmahi", Episode 2, features ​"Lei Nāhonoapiʻilani: Nā Mele Hou," the second installment of mele written for the storied places of West Maui and featured in the newly released book, "Lei Nāhonoapiʻilani: Songs of West Maui." Produced by Kanaeokana and Kāhuli Leo Le‘a, this episode features Cody Pueo Pata, Zachary & Nicholas Lum, Kamakakēhau Fernandez, Pono Murray, Kuikawā, Max Angel Bacerra, Jeff Au Hoy, Mark Palakiko and Nā Wai ʻEhā.  Eight mele are featured in this episode:
  1. Nā Mamo a Waiuli  - Na Cody Pueo Pata
  2. Ka Nani aʻo Pālāwai- Na ʻĀnela Evans
  3. Hāloa ka Wai o Kahoma  - Na Cody Pueo Pata
  4. Hanohano Mailepai - Na ʻIliahi Paredes
  5. Haʻaheo ʻo Honokōwai - Na Cody Pueo Pata
  6. He Mele Kēia no ʻEleʻio- Na ʻIliahi Paredes
  7. Wai Hiwahiwa o Mokuhinia - Na Cody Pueo Pata
  8.  Lei Nāhonoapiʻilani - Na Mima Apo

This new album, “Lei Nāhonoapi‘ilani: Nā Mele Hou”, is available for purchase at mele.com.  This episode of "Mele Huliāmahi" was made possible by Kanaeokana, Kāhuli Leo Le‘a, North Beach-West Maui Benefit Fund, Inc. and HK West Maui Community Fund.
EPISODE 1
May 16, 2020 
The inaugural episode of "Mele Huliāmahi" celebrates the many hui and Maui families who contributed to these mele aloha ʻāina.  Featuring Keauhou and Cody Pueo Pata, this episode also celebrates the recent win at the U.S. Supreme Court and thanks those who have worked tirelessly on this issue.  Nine mele were featured on this episode: 
  1. Honokōwai - Na Nicholas Lum
  2. Hanakaʻōʻō- Na Nicholas Lum
  3. Aloha Kuʻu ʻĀina o Kauaʻula - Na Zachary Alakaʻi Lum
  4. ʻO Olowalu i ke Kai Mōpua - Na Cody Pueo Pata
  5. He Aloha ē ka Pua aʻo ke Kō - Na Zachary Alakaʻi Lum
  6. A Paeahu Au - Na Nicholas Lum
  7. Mākena - Na Jonah Kahanuola Solatorio
  8. Nā Kama Pūkoʻa Kani ʻĀina - Na Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum
  9. Lei Nāhonoapiʻilani - Na Mima Apo​