Once again, members of Kahiko halapa i Hula Alapa`i o Keahi chanted and danced for paddlers in the Kaua`i World Challenge canoe race.
Last May, Halau members conducted a traditional welcome to Kalapaki Bay for competitors in the Kaua`i World Challenge canoe race. Organizers were so impressed with what we did, which organizer Tom Bartlett called “the most intense performance I have seen in 40 years of living in Hawai`i”, that they requested a hana hou at this year’s event on Saturday, May 13.
Click here to view photos of last year’s event on May 7, 2005.
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- Relaxing after a job well-done are (noho left to right) Penny, Keahi, (ku left to right) Savitri, Heu`i, Birgitta, Sherrie, Louise and Fran.
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- Sherrie and Fran perform He Mele no Kane as paddlers stand waist-deep in Kane’s element awaiting their turns to race.
