One last version of “Ana Latu,” a Tongan love song, and one of our favorites from our season of songs from the Pacific Islands. The performance is this video is by the California-bassed roots reggae band, Vintage Music Collective. In class when we sing “Ana Latu” we usually preface it with the acknowledgement that there are a lot of Pacific Islands goodbye songs, lamenting the leaving of a friend. Before the advent of airline travel any voyage from the Pacific islands would be long and treacherous. perilous at best. When our friends would leave we would know they would eventually be coming back but we’d never really “know.”
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
