Aloha everyone! While at Lulu’s Waikiki last night, I was telling my good friend, Yutaka, about our performances in Japan during the recent Golden Week holiday. He said that his good friend and daughter came to see us and wanted to take a picture with us, but were told that no pictures were allowed. I …
Aloha “Ohana”! It’s turning out to be a very hot & humid Memorial Weekend here in Hawaii! It’s around 9am and we just returned from walking our three puppies – Buster, Peanut, and Jazzie – and boy, is it hot! I sure hope the cool tradewinds return soon or I’m going to have to turn …
Boy, it looks like the hot summer weather has finally arrived in Hawaii … but the skies are clear and sunny and the mornings and late afternoons are beautiful. This weekend is Memorial Weekend so we’ll be taking my mother to visit the graves of my father and other relatives, and to decorate them with …
Aloha peeps, We’ve been quite busy since we returned to Hawaii last Thursday. My dad’s funeral service was on Friday, we performed at Kani Ka Pila on Saturday, took our mothers to brunch on Mother’s Day, and finally interred my father’s ashes this morning (Monday) at Punchbowl! We’re all still pretty exhausted and our body …
Aloha everyone! It’s an overcast day in Osaka and we will be performing our last two shows before departing for airport to catch our flight back to Hawaii. It’s been a very busy 8 days, but it was so nice to see all of our friends and fans and to be able to perform for …
Aloha everybody! We’re making final preparations for our trip to Seattle on Thursday to perform at the University of Washington’s annual lu’au. I heard that the weather has warmed up a bit and that Seattle’s harsh winter season may finally be over … oh well, we’ll find out very soon! After we return on Sunday, …
We just received the DVD copy of the Hiroshima TV special about my mother’s journey to find her family roots. What a wonderful program! I found myself feeling many of the same emotions that I felt last September when we started filming this project in Hiroshima. If you haven’t seen it yet, I sure hope …
Aloha, ManoaDNA debuted at the brand new Kani Ka Pila Bar & Grille in the Outrigger Reef Hotel last Saturday evening with lots of family and friends in the audience. This week it will be just me & Alex since Nick is going to the mainland to visit friends. Sitting in on Friday at Lulu’s …
Hi all … Well, after a nice and restful ’08 X-mas & New Years, we’re off and running in what looks to be like a very busy 2009! We just completed filming a project for TV Shin Hiroshima which will be aired in Japan towards the end of March. The actual TV schedule can be …
What’s up everyone? It’s almost February … boy, January sure went by quickly! We’re experiencing a bit of cold weather here in our islands with temperatures in the low to mid 60s F. It may not be cold to some of you but it’s FREEZING to us locals! We’re starting to get very busy with …