Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 5, Number 4, 1 ʻApelila 1988 — Talented Apprentices at Academy Apr. 23 [ARTICLE]

Talented Apprentices at Academy Apr. 23

Leading Hawaiian folk musicians and their talented apprentices are featured in a concert presented by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts on Saturday, Apr. 23 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Honolulu Academy of Arts theater. The free event showcases master artists and their apprentices who are completing a period of study together through the SFCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship Awards program.

The afternoon program will include Hawaiian chant by Pualani Kanahele and apprentice Miehael Pang; slack key guitar by Raymond Kane and apprentice Denny Santiago, and also Peter Medeiros and apprentice Osbert Kotani; steel guitarist Ernest Palmeira and apprentice Carlos Andrade; and old-time Hawaiian songs by the Big Island's Clyde Sproat and apprentice Zelie Duvachelle. The purpose of the SFCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program is "to encourage and assist in the perpetuation of the rich and complex folk arts traditions of all cultural and ethnic groups in Hawai'i.

In this program, funding is made available for experienced, qualified apprentices to spend a period of in-depth study with an accomplished master folk artist. Awards are possible in all eultural traditions and areas of focus."