chiefnoda
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Hello
Just come across this video clip. I think it's a aJapanese TV show, and they sang a medley of Okinawa and Hawaiian folk songs. Okinawa is a group of islands in the suthern tip of Japan. They used to be an independent country and have own history and culture. The music is very different, too (it's based on a pentatonic scale of C E F G B C).
The singer is Rimi Natuskawa (from Okinawa). The male is Konishiki, a feamed Sumo wrestler who made it to the rank of Ozeki. Jake is playing ukulele and he takes a short solo. I think this is the first time I heard him play a traditional Hawaiian song.
Note added later: Embedding does not seem to work. Please use the link below to go to YouTube (thanks, RedBee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFCP3QoyyY
Enjoy
Chief
Just come across this video clip. I think it's a aJapanese TV show, and they sang a medley of Okinawa and Hawaiian folk songs. Okinawa is a group of islands in the suthern tip of Japan. They used to be an independent country and have own history and culture. The music is very different, too (it's based on a pentatonic scale of C E F G B C).
The singer is Rimi Natuskawa (from Okinawa). The male is Konishiki, a feamed Sumo wrestler who made it to the rank of Ozeki. Jake is playing ukulele and he takes a short solo. I think this is the first time I heard him play a traditional Hawaiian song.
Note added later: Embedding does not seem to work. Please use the link below to go to YouTube (thanks, RedBee)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBFCP3QoyyY
Enjoy
Chief
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