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Where The River Meets The Sea
Hālau KaUaTuahine Ceremonial Hula
The Māhea Uchiyama Center for International Dance presents an evening of sacred music and dance featuring offerings of Native American flute, West African kora, mbira of Zimbabwe and ceremonial Hawaiian Hula. The performers for the evening are:
Rona Yellow Robe
2014 Native American Music Awards Flutist of the Year, Rona Yellow Robe is well-known, having delighted listeners with a combination of beautifully melodic flute playing and singing in her rich, full voice. In the Fall of 2014, Rona was named the Native American Music Awards ʻFlutist of the Year.
Rona started her Native American Flute journey in 2002 and has been on a musical and spiritual journey ever since. Over the past six years she has played hundreds of events including festivals, art shows, schools, weddings, memorial services, powwows, and holiday celebrations. She has honored military veterans and their families with her music, and has worked in close partnership with Multicare Hospice in Washington State for the past six years. She has begin expanding and honing her skills as a music teacher and workshop facilitator. Find out more about Rona at her website, www.RonaYellowRobe.net
Zéna
Zéna is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter and visual artist based in the Bay-Area, CA.As one of the few traditionally trained women who specialize in kora, the WestAfrican harp, Zéna has immersed herself in learning the oral histories and accompanying music of the Jaliyaa tradition within which kora music exists. On three different continents, she has lived and studied with kora masters from the United States, Guineau, Mali and the Gambia, learning traditional and contemporary forms of classical African string music; most recently travelling to France to be trained by Grammy Award winning kora master, Toumani Diabate, of Mali.
Erica Azim
Erica Azim is a Californian who fell in love with Shona mbira music when she first heard it at the age of 16. After studying Shona music with Dumisani Maraire at the University of Washington for two years, she decided she had to learn to play the ancient Shona mbira played in ceremonies. She began to learn the instrument by ear, using taped mbira 45's and an mbira borrowed from a professor's shelf. Leaving her studies, Erica worked single-mindedly to save money for the journey to the opposite side of the earth.
In 1974, Erica became one of the first non-Zimbabweans to study the mbira in Zimbabwe with traditional masters of the instrument. At that time, Zimbabwe was racist Rhodesia in the throes of a liberation war. Touched by the arrival of a young white woman who respected ancient Shona tradition -- a stark contrast with the white government that reviled it -- musicians extended a warm welcome.
Māhealani Uchiyama
Māhealani Uchiyama is an award-winning dancer, musician, composer, choreographer, recording artist, author and teacher. She is from the hula lineage of Kumu Joseph Kamohaʻi Kahāʻulelio. An advocate for cultural understanding, she is the founder and Artistic Director of the Māhea Uchiyama Center for International Dance in Berkeley, California, and is Kumu (teacher/director) of Hālau KaUaTuahine. She has been an instructor of Hawaiian Language at Stanford University, contributed a chapter on the hula for the publication "Dancing on the Earth" (Leseho and McMaster, 2010) and has authored the "Haumāna Hula Handbook" (2014). Her CD "A Walk by the Sea" has been awarded the Hawaiʻi Music Award for Best World Music Album of 2007. She has served on the panel of judges for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and the Tahiti Fete of San Jose and Hilo. She currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of World Arts West, the producers of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.
Hālau KaUaTuahine
Hālau Ka Ua Tuahine is named after the "sister rain" of Mānoa Valley, Oʻahu. Based in Berkeley, California, they have won numerous awards and perform locally and internationally including appearances at the Hollywood Bowl, the World Conference on Hula (Maui, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi), the King Kamehamha Hula and Chant Competition, Kū Mai Ka Hula Competition, Heiva celebrations in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and at Te Papa Tongoarewa, the National Museum of New Zealand.
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LocationMahea Uchiyama Center For International Dance (View)
729 Heinz Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
United States
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