Hapa returns to Redondo Beach
Hapa plays in Redondo Beach Nov. 10. Photo by Sara Makki-Phillips If you’ve ever listened to Hapa, considered to be the most successful group from Hawaii in recent history, you’ll have undoubtedly felt an inexplicable depth living within their music. The LA Times has referred to it as “Beautiful, fragile, spiritual, powerful,” and the San Francisco Chronicle said it “represents the past, present, and future of Polynesian music.” It’s a music which encapsulates the essence and emotion of both a geological landscape and its people. As if the volcanoes themselves have raised their voices in song, to tell of the millennia consumed with shaping and nourishing rich and majestic islands upon which they would eventually become observers and collaborators of a special culture amid the dance of human history. Perhaps that is Hapa’s song. When fate and fire burnt Barry Flanagan’s home to the ground in 1979, it was the grace and hospitality of a friend which bound him to what quickly became his new home. The New Jersey native, born in New York, couldn’t have known he was about to change the face of Hawaiian music. “The early ‘80s were such an exciting time to be in Hawaii working on projects…
Read this story on easyreadernews.com