Additional resources to supplement the Songbook
New Video Series on the Making of the Eddie Kamae Songbook and Storytelling
Have you ever thought about collecting, organizing, and saving something important? Maybe to keep for yourself or to share with family or others? Perhaps you need to go out and collect new stories and images to add to what you already have. This is storytelling: curating a series of artifacts to tell what happened before or what is happening now, in order to preserve and share it. The Making of the Eddie Kamae Songbook: Storytelling to Perpetuate Legacy is a guide to how the songbook team told the story of Eddie Kamae’s musical journey by creating an online, completely free songbook. The 4-part video series shows how they did this work and provides you with the tools and insights to tell the stories that matter to you.
Concert Band Arrangements Available to Download
Concert band arrangements for the songs Heha Waipiʻo, Kuʻu Pua I Paoakalani, and Hanakeoki are available to download as a zip file for each of those songs. These arrangements represent the initial entries for the “A Musical Journey for Concert Band: Songs from the Eddie Kamae Songbook” project, supported by The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation and the University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu. These arrangements are appropriate for a variety of band levels, including Grade 2 and Grade 3. Directors, teachers, and others who fill out the download form will be sent a link to the download site, which houses the zip folders that include scores, parts for each instrument, and a pūʻolo from the Eddie Kamae Songbook website.
He Pūʻolo Aloha no Lāhainā
The University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu, in collaboration with The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation, has made a special pūʻolo aloha for Lāhainā. Created by Lilinoe Andrews, this pūʻolo is a compilation of sources that highlight the layered stories of Lāhainā from place names, to moʻolelo, to the song “Kananaka” and video clips from Eddie & Myrna Kamae’s documentary, “Lahaina: Waves of Change.”