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How To Win Personalized Rewards – Help My Kickstarer!

acousticSince I’ve recently moved from Hawaii to Virginia and I’ve started to get my first solo gig offers! The problem is, I can’t do these gigs without a PA system!  My Kickstarter project is an effort to get me ready in the next 14 days for my first big solo gigs.  In other words, help me be heard!

This coming June, I’ve been asked to play a 3hr gig in Culpeper, VA at a bar called The Pier as well as a networking event in Washington, DC at the Graham Hotel.  These are amazing new opportunities for me as a solo singer/songwriter, but I can’t do this without your help.  Without a PA system I won’t be able to do these shows!!  All donations will go towards purchasing a Bose L1 S1 PA system.

Learn more and see the great rewards I’m offering (like writing you a song, a handwritten thank you l...

May 29, 2014 Music No comments
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Kupuna – An Interactive Documentary About the Bridge to the Past of Laie, Hawaii

Nathaniel Hansen: professor, director, producer, and friend. Kupuna

Nathaniel Hansen: professor, director, producer, and friend.

A close friend of mine, Nathaniel Hansen, is working on a documentary focused on the elderly Polynesian of my home town of Laie, Hawaii.  Nathaniel has done previous work focusing on the bridge the elderly create to the past in any community.  Now he’s taking that concept and placing it over the unique and amazing place I grew up on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii.  The title of the documentary is Kūpuna and it is a story that is begging to be told, but can only be told through the voices of those who have lived through so much of the 20th century and into the new millennium.

In Nathaniel’s own words, Kūpuna is an interactive documentary portrait of Laie, a small Hawaiian town on the island of O’ahu...

December 11, 2012 Inspiration No comments
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