Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 7, 1 July 2008 — Loeal musican launches TV shows in Hawaiʻi and Japan [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Loeal musican launches TV shows in Hawaiʻi and Japan

By Lisa Asatū Puhlie lnfurmatiun Specialist Hawaiian musician and business owner Pali Ka'aihue will branch out into TV starting in Iuly - with three new shows bringing Hawaiian music, culture and the stories of its people into living rooms across the Islands - and lapan. He and his Iapan-born fiancēe, Sachi Uchida, will bring a little bit of lapan to Hawai'i with a show called DokoGaTV: JapanMania, whieh is designed in the style of the popular Iapanese show Soko Ga Shiritai, whieh translates to "What do you want to know?" The first episode of the pop-culture-focused JapanMania will feature the "world's best tonkatsu - 27 paper-thin shces of pork breaded and fried - so tender you ean cut it with your chopsticks!," as well as Fuji-Q Highland amusement park, and an interview with the director of a 3D anime blockbuster hit Appleseed Ex Maehina, Ka'aihue says. IapanMania's sister show, DokoGaTV: JIawaiiMania, will air in lapan also starting this month. Ka'aihue calls this the "postcard-

plus program," - not your average show on the postcard beauty of the Islands, but a show that tells of the stories of its people, culture, music and happenings. He, along with co-host and co-producer Uchida and director Raf Bacani, have already filmed segments with Walter Keale at a Kailua heiau, and with kumu Ululani Duncan and Ka Hula o Ululani as they performed during a visit to Wahiawa and the birthing stones. The third show is Pakele Live, whieh will showcase Hawaiian music at Ala Moana Hotel's Pakele Lounge. The show has been streaming live on the web for the past year and now makes its TV debut Iuly 30 at 7 p.m. on OC16. The half-hour show will be hosted by fonner radio DI and producer Tony Solis, who is also the creator and host of OC16's Eli! You Da KineAhl "We've been taping already in lune," says Ka'aihue, leader of the Nā Hōkū Hanohano award-winning group Pali. "We're going to feature Cyril Pahinui, Willie K., Brother Noland, Pilioha, Hōkū Zuttermeister and Weldon Kekauoha." "Part of the reason I wanted to co-create

Pakele was to really share the Hawaiian music," says Ka'aihue, who is thepresident of LavaNet, whieh he bought out in 2004 when the previous owner had planned to close operations. Pakele Live, he says, also gives musicians whose music falls outside the boundaries of radio airplay, a ehanee to share their talents. "So Pakele really allows everyone to showcase their music to a global audience," he says, "and we've had fans from as far as Australia or London." I

New TV shows DokoGaTV: JapanMania airs on OC16 Mondays at 7 p.m. starting July 28 DokoGaTV: HawaiiMania will air in Japan starting in July Pakeie Live will air on OC16 Wednesdays at 7 p.m. starting July 30 Musicians interested in performing for Pakele Live ean contact Pali Ka'aihue at pali@pali.net. Episodes of DokoGaTv ean be viewed on demand at dokoga.tv.

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Pali Ka'aihue - ū businessmon and leader of the Nā Hōkū Hanohano award-winning band Pali - and his fiancēe Sachi Uchida will co-host fwo new TV shows in Hawai'i and in Japan starting in July. A third show, Pakele Live will showcase Hawaiian music. - Phoio: Courtesy of Pali Ka'aihue