Songs & Stories

Guitarist and songwriter Lauren Broido talks about her musical journey from the mainland to the Big Island, and shares a few music clips from a Pink Floyd Tribute show, and 50th Woodstock concert (Shakastock) event.

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Lopaka Rootz is a singer/songwriter from Kailua Kona, on the big Island of Hawaii. He has appeared in the documentary film Livin' on a Rock: A Big Island Music Story, and at various Hawaii island music festivals. In this episode, you'll hear Lopaka perform "Livin' My Best Life," and "The Three L's," two recent songs from his catalog.

You can find Songs & Stories on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. It also airs weekly on KONA 100.5 FM in Kailua, Kona. If you have a podcast show suggestion or guest interview recommendation, give Big Island Music Magazine a call at (318) 500-3582, and leave us a message on our listener line. If we like what we hear, we might air it on a future podcast episode. Thanks for listening and Aloha!

Visit Lopaka Rootz' Ohana Facebook page.

Show Notes: On Saturday, October 17, 2020,  the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival will welcome Broadway icon, Bronson Norris Murphy, to the virtual stage. This concert is the first of the festival’s 2020 High Season Series which benefits the HPAF Student Scholarship Fund. All proceeds from this event will specifically benefit BIPOC Artists.  Buy Tickets: https://hawaiiperformingartsfestival.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=1191919

Best known to American audiences for premiering the role of The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies: The Phantom Returns, Bronson Norris Murphy is a versatile singing actor who has been seen on stages from Broadway to Japan and nearly every state in the nation. Praised for his “prodigious acting abilities” and for having a voice that has been acclaimed as “masterful, passionate and soaringly beautiful," Bronson makes his home on both the musical theatre and symphonic concert stages.

Listen to this week’s show below. You can find Songs & Stories on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. It also airs weekly on KONA 100.5 FM in Kailua, Kona. If you have a podcast show suggestion or guest interview recommendation, give Big Island Music Magazine a call at (318) 500-3582, and leave us a message on our listener line. If we like what we hear, we might air it on a future podcast episode. Thanks for listening and Aloha!

Songs & Stories: S2 E4

Show Notes: Hilo musician and curator of Kukuau Studio, Bub Pratt, talks about his new multi-artist album Kukuau Compilation. In this episode, you'll get to hear three tracks from the upcoming release.

You can find Songs & Stories on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. It also airs weekly on KONA 100.5 FM in Kailua, Kona. If you have a podcast show suggestion or guest interview recommendation, give Big Island Music Magazine a call at (318) 500-3582, and leave us a message on our listener line. If we like what we hear, we might air it on a future podcast episode. Thanks for listening and Aloha!

To purchase the Kukuau compilation album, visit: kukuaustudio.com

Show Notes: Folk music icon Tom Paxton's music career spans more than sixty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2019 he released his 65th album Live! with The Don Juans.

Paxton, now 82, has met everyone from Pete Seeger to Bob Dylan, and many musicians have covered his music. When I reviewed his April 2015 Berkeley concert, he announced he was done with touring, but that was a short-lived idea and he returned to the road shortly thereafter.

This podcast bonus episode features an interview I did with Tom on October 1, 2020, and focuses on his upcoming livestream concert with The Don Juans on October 5, 2020 (ticket info below). Additionally, I asked him about the backstory for two of his classic originals “Ramblin’ Boy” and “Did You Hear About John Hurt.”

You can find Songs & Stories on all major podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts. It also airs weekly on KONA 100.5 FM in Kailua, Kona.

If you have a podcast show suggestion or guest interview recommendation, give Big Island Music Magazine a call at (318) 500-3582, and leave us a message on our listener line. If we like what we hear, we might air it on a future podcast episode. Thanks for listening and Aloha!

Larry Dupio is an amazing Blues guitarist, and won the Nā Hōkū Hanohano award for his Rock album Lightnin’ Strikes Hilo. Love and Lightning is Dupio’s seventh release and three songs from that recording are featured in this episode.

If you have a show suggestion or guest interview recommendation, give Big Island Music Magazine a call at (318) 500-3582, and leave us a message on our listener line. If we like what we hear, we might air it on a future podcast episode. Thanks for listening and Aloha!

Larry Dupio: https://larrydupio.com

Hilo’s own Brandon Nakano and twelve other Hawaiʻi Island musicians brought their talents together in a matter of days to record the single, “Our Kuleana.”  Our Kuleana is a community-based effort to mobilize Hawaiʻi island residents during critical times of need, initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic

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For more information on Our Kuleana, visit ourkuleanahawaii.com and follow on Facebook and Instagram.

Lani Park is an award-winning poet, singer, hula dancer, surfer, and certified yoga teacher. The New York Times said, "She has the voice of an angel and the soul of a rock star."  Now rooted & settled on the Big Island of Hawai'i, she is "livin' da dream."

If you have a podcast show suggestion or guest interview recommendation, give Big Island Music Magazine a call at (318) 500-3582, and leave us a message on the request line. If we like what we hear, we might air it on a future podcast episode. Thanks for listening and Aloha!

Lani Park: https://www.kehaulanimusic.com

Although the Kahilu Theatre has been closed to the public since March, it's making plans to offer multi-camera live stream concerts and much more. The theatre's Artistic Director Chuck Gessert explains what the public can look forward to when they reopen. This podcast also includes performances by Goitse and Camarata RCO from the Kahilu's 39th season (2019-2020).

Songs & Stories is a production of Big Island Music Magazine, and available for free on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Be sure to subscribe.

Kahilu Theatre: http://kahilutheatre.org

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This episode features an interview with multiple Nä Hökü Hanohano Award winner Mark Yamanaka.  It was recorded at the Mauna Lani Resort on July 19, 2020, and features his songs Lei Lehua and Kaleo `O Nalani.

Songs & Stories is a production of Big Island Music Magazine, and available for free on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Be sure to subscribe.

Mark Yamanaka: https://www.markyamanaka.com

Catch up on previous episodes here: https://anchor.fm/bigislandmusicmagazine