Sweet Hollywaiians European Tour January 2010

Japanese stringband visits for the first time Holland, Belgium and France.
SWEET HOLLYWAIIANS: EUROPEAN TOUR JANUARY 2010
Hans Koert
The Sweet Hollywaiians is a Japanese string band that plays, as they label it: authentic Hawaiian, swing, ragtime, blues, calypso and Italian music. They will visit this month Europe for the very first time and they will perform in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Belsele ( near Sint-Niklaas) (Belgium), Lille and Paris (France).
The four members of the band became fascinated collecting recordings made by musicians like Sol Hoopii, King Nawahi, Eddie Lang and Carl Kress. Sol Hoopii and Bennie Nawahi were both Hawaiian born musicians. Sol Hoopii became famous on the lap steel guitar and Nawahi played the slide guitar ( Hawaiian guitar). They moved to California in the 1920s and became famous in the 1930s when the Hawaiian styled music became popular.


The first year they played together was very hard: It was terrible, Nobumasa sighs, Japanese audiences were not interested in our music at all.

Its first recordings were titled Sweet Hollywaiians: 30s Style of Hawaiian Music and Sweet Strings presents the Sweet Hollywaiians; two EP's made for the Japanese market.
In the US the Sweet Hollywaiians were welcome with their music and they performed in numerous meetings, most at the west coast, where they found kindred spirits like Janet Klein (and her Parlor Boys); Robert Armstrong ( from the R. Crumb's Cheap Suit Serenaders); Craig Ventresco; Bill Tapia, the nestor of all Hawaiian musicians and Tom Marion. With the latter they recorded one of their first albums, with the weird and mysterious name: "'Osurdato 'nnammurato", which is, in fact, a Neapolitan song about a soldier in World War I.


It is a great pleasure to inform you that these four talented young boys will perform now in Europe for the very first time and I’m sure their music and joy will inspire and fascinate the audience, as this kind of music is not often heard in our regions. Hope to meet you at Belsele or at one of the concerts in Holland or France.
* 21st of January, 2010: Hawaiian Luau by Miss Poodle Wah-Wah
Maison Des Etudiants Campus Universite Lille 1/ Villeneuve d'Ascq, France ( 8:00 pm)
* 22nd of January, 2010 Palm Guitars Presents / Amsterdam, Netherlands ( 8:00 pm)
* 23rd of January, 2010 't Ey / Belsele, Belgium ( 9:00 pm)
* 24th of January, 2010 Dominique Cravic Presents Aux Petits Joueurs (Paris) ( 8:00 pm)
Tell your friends ............
Hans Koert
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1 Comments:
Thank you, Hans, for pointing to the Sweet Hollywaiians European tour, it's great to know that this fabulous stringband will hit an European audience, a pity the tour does not include Scandinavia as well. However, please wellcome the boys and say 'hello' from me, when you attend one of their concerts near by.
Aloha,
Jo
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