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          Keola Beamer is one of my favorite Hawai'ian performers.

        1. “Henry Kapono is the absolute best,” says Keola.
        2. The concert by the legendary musicians Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono provided isle “expatriate” Californians longing to return to Polynesia with an opportunity.
        3. Kapono Beamer & Dave Jenkins Crusin' On Hawaiian Time Music Cassette Tape.
        4. Nona Beamer, an authority on Hawaiian culture and the matriarch of the musical Beamer family, died on Thursday at her home on Maui.

          5. The concert by the legendary musicians Keola Beamer and Henry Kapono provided isle “expatriate” Californians longing to return to Polynesia with an opportunity..




          "Slack Key Dreams
          of the Ponomoe"

          Kapono Beamer
          (OnoPak)
          Kapono Beamer has been making important contributions to Hawaiian music as a slack key guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for more than 30 years.

          Beamer has been an innovator as well; he was one of the first to combine traditional ki ho'alu (slack key) with "new age" electronic music. Among his other contributions is his documentation of the Beamer family's musical legacy.

          "On The Beach" is a Hawaiian track arranged by Kapono Beamer.

          "Great Grandmother, Great Grandson" celebrated the music of his great-grandmother Helen Desha Beamer and received a Hoku award in 1999. His new album includes recordings of his grandmother, the late Louise Leiomalama Walker "Dambie" Beamer.

          It opens with her chanting about an ancestor who died defending the traditional religion of Hawaii against the forces of Kaahumanu during the civil war of 1819. Kapono enhances Dambie's voice with overdubbed nose flute and Hawaiian percussion.

          He mentions in the liner notes that within 60 years after Kaahum