Live Music Night – Kai Ea with Kumu Mālia
Friday, March 29, 2024
6:30-7:30 pm HST
FREE
Kai Ea is the musical duo of Mālia Helelā and Umi Perkins. Their style is an eclectic mix of traditional Hawaiian, classic, contemporary and original music. Kai Ea has many meanings, including rising tide and sovereign sea.
Through Kai Ea, they compose and breathe life into music that expresses the depth and breadth of the human experience.
As a singer-songwriter, musician, and composer, Mālia has been serenading us at Still & Moving Center since we opened. She also serves as a kumu hula and lomilomi practitioner at Still & Moving Center. She teaches hula, oli (Hawaiian chanting), lomilomi, ʻōlelo (Hawaiian language), and ʻukulele to a wide range of haumāna (students), from babies to kūpuna (elders), always interweaving music into her teaching.
Umi is a teacher and independent scholar focused on Hawaiian and Indigenous theory. He teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools and lectures in political science at Windward Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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