“Na Nā Pua Lei A Pauahi” is the second musical CD, released in December 2009, by the Kamehameha Schools Children’s Chorus. It is a long awaited collection of mele that the Kapālama elementary students have been singing over the years, including Ka Na‘i Aupuni, Ke Aloha O Ka Haku (Queen’s Prayer), We Send This Aloha To You, Ho‘onani I Ka Makua Mau (Doxology), Hawai‘i Aloha, Hallelujah Chorus and several others.

All proceeds from the CD go towards the group’s planned trip to Japan in 2010. The Kamehameha Schools Children’s Chorus (KSCC), organized in 1988, is comprised of 100 4th, 5th, and 6th graders from the KS Kapālama Campus. The chorus has traveled and performed around the world, most notably, at Ground Zero in NYC, with Celine Dion in concert, and for the Disney movie “Lilo and Stitch.”

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By Taupōuri Tangarō
ISBN 978-0-87336-205-4

The mele contained in this book are fundamental to hula Pele and reflect a vast and dynamic Hawai'i worldview. These mele have been preserved for centuries via oral traditions, the sacred hula of Hawai‘i, and, more recently, in twentieth-century written texts. “Lele Kawa” offers original translations and provocative interpretations of the Pele literature from a practitioner's perspective. The author's work is based on generations of ancestral connections and years of immersion in the fiery ‘aiha‘a dances of the hula Pele.

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