“Pā Mai Ana Ka Makani” is one of the most beloved of all traditional Hawaiian songs. It was composed by Lydia Nawahine Kekuewa, a native of Kona, a district on Hawaii’s Big Island, in the early 1900s, Kekuewa hailed from a musical family — her brother composed some of Hawaii’s most widely-sung hymns. An essay by Hawaiian author and song collector Kīhei de Silva, a descendant of Keukuewa — who his mother and her sisters called, affectionately, “Tūtū Lady” — remembers her as “a much-feared and respected school and hula teacher.” “Pā Mai Ana Ka Makani” speaks to the love she felt both her for her husband Obed, police chief of Kona, and love for Hawaii — secure, beautiful and serene. “The wind blows,” writes de Silva, “and stirs memories of her loved-one, home, and youth. The beauty of Kona’s clouds and sea stirs memories of her loved-one, home, and youth.” In this video we share All Around This World’s version.
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site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date.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!
