Songbook Publications - Coming Soon

Realizing the immense value that waihona mele present us, Kāhuli Leo Leʻa is excited to undertake projects like songbook publications.  Starting with the research and compilation of mele text, these songbooks provide the lyrics, translation, and musical transcription of mele.

mele workshops - coming soon

As a tool for encapsulating and disseminating cultural knowledge, haku mele is the skilled practice of Hawaiian song composition.  Likewise, the particular facets of mele performance (hōʻike mele) are also integral to mele Hawaiʻi. Mele workshops, though taking on various forms, focus on teaching and honing these skills as a means to promoting mele excellence for both practitioners and the larger Hawaiʻi.

COMMUNITY EVENTS AROUND MELE 

Utilizing mele to preserve, transmit, and create cultural knowledge can have profound effects on contemporary Hawaiʻi.  Community events centered around mele -- or, hōʻike mele -- while entertainment, offer a unique opportunity to uplift, educate, and heighten mele throughout our communities.

• May Day
• Mele Huliāmahi - In partnership with Kanaeokana, Mele Huliāmahi highlights contemporary stories of aloha ʻāina encapsulated in newly composed mele.  This program illuminates and explores aloha 'āina successes and struggles on Maui, from cane burning, to shoreline access; from sewage pollution to water diversion. As community support for aloha ʻāina has gained momentum in the last decades, community groups, families, and individuals have joined to huliāmahi — to stand for ʻāina and the kānaka who live by its values.