Posted on: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Island listeners have voted
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
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Daniel Ho
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HAWAI'I MUSIC AWARDS
Four-pronged celebration by the Music Foundation of Hawai'i NOMINEES PARTY 6-8 p.m. March 15 Willows Restaurant, 901 Hausten St. $15 general; $5 nominees; aloha wear Open to 150 nominees; social hour with pupu buffetLEGACY AWARDS 5:30 p.m. cocktails, 6 p.m. dinner March 16 Waikiki Lau Yee Chai, fifth floor, 2250 Kalakaua Ave. $75; black tieLU'AU PARTY March 17 Paradise Cove, Ko Olina 3:50 p.m. pickup in Waikiki, 10 p.m. drop-off $66.50 general; $48.50 for kama'aina with IDAWARDS BANQUET 3:30 p.m. no-host cocktails, 4-6:30 p.m. awards dinner March 18 Tropics Showroom, Hilton Hawaiian Village $75; aloha wearInformation, reservations for all events: 271-5853, www.hawaiimusicawards.com
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Keali'i Reichel will receive a Hawai'i Music Award on March 18 in the Anthology category for his album "Kamahiwa."
ADVERTISER LIBRARY PHOTO | Nov. 30, 2004
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Keali'i Reichel, Jake Shimabukuro, George Kahumoku Jr., Daniel Ho and Jasmine Trias are among the winners in the ninth Hawai'i Music Awards, announced yesterday on the Music Foundation of Hawai'i's Web site.
Based on online voting, the winners will be honored at an awards banquet March 18 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village's Tropics Showroom. The awards event, which raises money to support music education via scholarships for youths, is one of four major events in 2006.
Reichel was cited for best anthology, Shimabukuro for rock album, Kahumoku and Ho for inspirational/gospel album, and Trias for pop album.
This year's competition included 32 categories covering a gamut of categories, from jazz to Hawaiian, from slack key to Island contemporary. Johnny Kai, who founded the awards, said 47,000 visited the Web site to cast 10,000 votes from dozens of nations from around the world.
The complete list of winners:
Adult Contemporary — "Back to Hawai'i," Stuart Nakai
Anthology — "Kamahiwa," Keali'i Reichel
Blues — "Live at the Stopwatch," Chance and the Blues Daddies
Children's music — "Surf, Sand & Song," Keiki O Waimanalo
Classical — "Fantasies," Grace Nikae
Compilation — "Aloha Festivals Falsetto Contest Winners, Volume 6," various artists
Contemporary Hawaiian — "My Island Paradise," Manny Fernandez
Country — "My 9th Island Paniolo Ranch," Danny Estocado
DVD — "They Call Her Lady Fingers: Betty Loo Taylor," Sam Polson & Patricia Gillespie
Film Score — "Ho'okipa," Ho'okipa
Folk — "All The Things I Said," Ray Bumatai
Hip Hop — "The Greatest HI," Krystiles featuring Floers
Inspirational/Gospel — "Hymns of Hawai'i, Volume 2," George Kahumoku Jr. & Daniel Ho
Instrumental — "Aloha From Hawai'i," Greg and Junko MacDonald
International Hawaiian — "The Island of Angels," Anella
Island Contemporary — "UnCut," Inoa'ole
Jazz — "Bass Etude," Nathan Aweau
New Age — "Rainforest Piano and Harp," Keith Scott & Amy Heindl
Polynesian — "Mama," Mt. Vaea Band
Pop — "Jasmine Trias," Jasmine Trias
Punk/Ska — "Scary Beast," WMF
R&B — "Tha3LOGY," Aziel
Rap — "My Life," J-Bird
Reggae — "Ekolu Music," Ekolu
Rock — "Dragon," Jake Shimabukuro
Seasonal — "An Old Fashioned Christmas," Opihi Pickers & Friends
Single — "Lu'au Cha Cha Cha," Sonya Mendez
Slack Key Guitar — "Kiho'alu," Ledward Ka'apana
Steel Guitar — "Jerry Byrd: Master of the Steel Guitar," Jerry Byrd
Traditional Hawaiian — "He 'Olu," Holunape
'Ukulele — "Hear," Brittni Paiva
World Music — "Mutambo!" Mabanzi Marimba
Reach Wayne Harada at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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