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About "Ke Ha'a La Puna (Small Island Mix) - Small Island Big Song Ft' Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani "
16. KE HA’A LA PUNA (Small Island mix)
English title – Puna dances
Ke Ha'a La Puna belongs to Pele Oli & Hula traditions
Language – Hawai’ian Hawai’i
Nature sound – The Rim of Uwekahuna, Kilauea Volcano.
Featured Artist –
Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani – Hawaiian - Hawai’i – vocals
With –
Jerome Kavanagh – Maori – Aotearoa/New Zealand – Nguru & Hue Puruhau
Horomona Horo– Maori – Aotearoa/New Zealand – Purerehua
Ke haʻa lā Puna i ka makani
Haʻa ka ulu hala i Keaʻau
Haʻa Hāʻena me Hōpoe
Haʻa ka Wahine
ʻAmi i kai o Nānāhuki
Hula leʻa wale i kai o Nānāhuki
ʻO Puna kai kuwā i ka hala
Paʻē paʻē ka leo o ke kai
Ke lū lā i nā pua lehua
Nānā i kai o Hōpoe
Ka wahine ʻami i kai o Nānāhuki
Hula leʻa wale i kai o Nānāhuki
He inoa no Hiʻiakaikapoliopele
Puna dances because of the wind
The Hala grove dances at Keaʻau
Hāʻena dances along with Hōpoe
The Woman dances
The current of Nānāhuki gyrates
There is only pleasant dancing at the sea of Nānāhuki
The sea of Puna reverberates through the Hala
The sound of the sea strikes the ears
Lehua flowers are strewn about
Looking towards the sea of Hopoe
The Woman who gyrates at the sea of Nānāhuki
Blissfully dancing at the sea of Nānāhuki
We call on the renerative powers of Hiʻiaka
At the surface, the scene before us is the animation of the landscape, the trees, and the ocean all initiated by the movement of the wind. The story of Pele & Hiʻiaka tells us that this is the first hula that HiʻIaka learns from her friend Hopoe and performs for her sister Pele. In the hula Pele practice, this simple poetic text reminds us that our relationship with nature is core to who we are because the ocean, the wind, the flowers, the trees. THEY are the FIRST dancers.
- Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani
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English title – Puna dances
Ke Ha'a La Puna belongs to Pele Oli & Hula traditions
Language – Hawai’ian Hawai’i
Nature sound – The Rim of Uwekahuna, Kilauea Volcano.
Featured Artist –
Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani – Hawaiian - Hawai’i – vocals
With –
Jerome Kavanagh – Maori – Aotearoa/New Zealand – Nguru & Hue Puruhau
Horomona Horo– Maori – Aotearoa/New Zealand – Purerehua
Ke haʻa lā Puna i ka makani
Haʻa ka ulu hala i Keaʻau
Haʻa Hāʻena me Hōpoe
Haʻa ka Wahine
ʻAmi i kai o Nānāhuki
Hula leʻa wale i kai o Nānāhuki
ʻO Puna kai kuwā i ka hala
Paʻē paʻē ka leo o ke kai
Ke lū lā i nā pua lehua
Nānā i kai o Hōpoe
Ka wahine ʻami i kai o Nānāhuki
Hula leʻa wale i kai o Nānāhuki
He inoa no Hiʻiakaikapoliopele
Puna dances because of the wind
The Hala grove dances at Keaʻau
Hāʻena dances along with Hōpoe
The Woman dances
The current of Nānāhuki gyrates
There is only pleasant dancing at the sea of Nānāhuki
The sea of Puna reverberates through the Hala
The sound of the sea strikes the ears
Lehua flowers are strewn about
Looking towards the sea of Hopoe
The Woman who gyrates at the sea of Nānāhuki
Blissfully dancing at the sea of Nānāhuki
We call on the renerative powers of Hiʻiaka
At the surface, the scene before us is the animation of the landscape, the trees, and the ocean all initiated by the movement of the wind. The story of Pele & Hiʻiaka tells us that this is the first hula that HiʻIaka learns from her friend Hopoe and performs for her sister Pele. In the hula Pele practice, this simple poetic text reminds us that our relationship with nature is core to who we are because the ocean, the wind, the flowers, the trees. THEY are the FIRST dancers.
- Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani
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