Guest Author - Deborah L Adams






The Magic of Steel Guitar by Henry Kaleialoha Allen - Master Musician Teacher on the Culture an Arts of Hawaiian Music. Music Educator, Show producer, singer and writter composer of music, both in hawaiian and Jazz is an all instrumental CD with the beautiful steel guitar playing popular songs such as 'Tiny Bubbles', 'Aloha O'e' and 'Blue Hawaii' in the harmonic and melodious way we've come to expect from this talented musician. What wonderful music! Henry Kaleialoha Allen is a legend and has been delighting audiences for years! Fully at home with Jazz as he is with Hawaiian Music, listening to his music is soothing and uplifting depending on which songs you are listening to but always beautiful! I could see his music used as a theraputic relaxing tool also!

The songs on this CD include:

Tiny Bubbles
Mapuana
Sweet Leilani
Blue Hawaii
Hawaiian Souvenir
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Aloha O'E
Moon of Manakoora
Akaka Falls
South Sea Island Magic
Beyond The Reef
Kalele - "Swinging"
Sands

Henry Allen has been appointed by the State of Hawaii Department of Education for the past 5 years to take his musical programs into the schools for a presentation of Hawaiian culture and the Hawaiian Steel Guitar which is the only instrument "native to Hawaii". As he has been playing since the young age og 13 you know that you have a treat in store for you when you get a chance to listen to the beautiful melodies wrought from this instrument by the talented Henry Kaleialoha Allen.
Henry Kaleialoha Allen is also available for private Hawaiian Steel Guitar lessons. You can send an e-mail to his lovely wife Sherron Allen : guitarmaui@aol.com if this is something you would be interested in.
Visit the site at www.henrykallen.com and see all that he has to offer!