August 02, 2009

Prince Lot Hula Festival

A couple weekends ago Kim's halau performed for the umpeenth time at the Prince Lot Hula Festival at Moanalua Gardens.



Only got one slightly blurry pic. They were scheduled to go on at a blissfully early 8:30 (usually they go on at 2 p.m. when it's stinking hot) but were even a little ahead of schedule. We got there just in time....



The after pics are the better ones anyways.



Homemade ti leaf skirt. And don't be fooled : those things are heavy. Once you get them moving around they want to keep going.



Time to pound poi....or pa‘i ‘ai if you want to really be correct. Step one, clean kalo.



Ready for pounding



Choose ku‘i



Check



Final instructions



Twenty minutes later....



Yum.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Poi pounding - sure sounds like a euphemism to me, but the pictures disprove that.

Two great photoshop opportunities that day - take out the folks in the background of the Kim/Lily picture... and get rid of the 'side-butt' behind Brad in the "time to pound poi" pic.

Looks like a great day.