Kauai Backyard Music - Kalalea and Kaimina`au`ao

[@haunanikaui4703]

Beautiful Memories.

[@geraldinecsevigny7722]

Hi Elaine - nice seeing you in this video. Enjoyed the music, dancing etc. This is Gerri Casuga - your classmate. Hope to see at a class reunion on Kauai soon. Mahalo!!

[@robduterte7680]

My grandma is in this video wow how I miss her right now ❤️

[@kawikadee9670]

My aunty is in this video too and is buried there I miss her.

[@lavernecorpuz3963]

Wow Jane Smith, "Big John" Kauo, Keola Alalem!!! Love da hula!!!

[@KalikoTrapp]

Thank you for your great content, Robert. I have seen a couple of your videos so far. But one thing that really detracts from these videos as documents for historical analysis and preservation of knowledge in the future is the fact that you so often leave two tracks of sound running at once. For example, you'll be having an interview and at the same time the music track running underneath. It's so hard to really focus on one thing as a listener - both the music and the interviewees words are compromised and we don't get the best of either. Sometimes, it's not even possible to hear the words of the interviewee, especially names or unusual words or accent or pronunciation. The kinds of videos you are making are so valuable as documents for future generations. Computer-based analysis of music and also of voice is already a valuable tool in 2022, and will be way more so in the future. But combining two soundtracks at once -which cannot be unwoven one from the other after the fact- really messes with the ability to properly analyze the sound of either. So my plea to you is please please, create these lovely "TV News" style edits if you like, but also please create other edits where the soundtracks are not intertwined with each other. Mahalo nui iā ʻoe no kāu hana nui, e Robert. Aloha nui, Kaliko Beamer-Trapp in Hilo.

[@drsurf1]

I appreciate your comment and I know you have a very acute ear. I generally am very aware of the balance of talking and b-roll music in audio tracks. As I revisited this one, yes, there are a few softer voices that are hard to distinguish from the music. For this I will try to be more aware.

[@KalikoTrapp]

@@drsurf1 Mahalo for your kind reply and I send lots of aloha and thanks to you for what you have shared with us all. Aloha nui, Robert!

[@kauimanera726]

Beautiful Hawaiians doing what we do best, e himeni kakou!!

[@kawikadee9670]

Aww some of my family are buried at that graveyard. I miss them.

[@kenneychansr3793]

No mention of the Williams family, l remember one song was called Kalalea

[@christinastier637]

Beautiful. When was this done?