The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation
Ensuring the legacy lives on by building a foundation of continuity.
Eddie & Myrna Kamae committed their lives to sharing the stories and music of the elders so that traditional knowledge could be passed down from one generation to the next. They instinctively knew how important it was to document the elders of their time before their stories, music, and wisdom faded away. In 2000, they established The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation, a non-profit with a mission to document, preserve, and perpetuate the cultural heritage of Hawaiʻi through music, film and video, educational programs, community outreach, and archival work.
Together, they created fifteen albums of genre-defining Hawaiian music, ten award-winning documentaries, curricula and education programs for K-12 learners, and a vast archive of videos, audio recordings, papers, and photographs. Visit these pages: Book, Albums, Films, Archive, and Teachers to learn more.
The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation today is focused on ensuring that the body of films, educational tools, and archives that Eddie & Myrna created are accessible and visible in perpetuity so that they can continue to touch the hearts, minds, and spirits of all who engage with them. For Eddie and Myrna, this is how the work lives on. Eddie once said, “We want to leave the most precious legacies…”