HSGA QUARTERLY Published four times a year in Honolulu, Hawai‘i by the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association Volume 36, Issue 139 Summer 2020 Inside this Issue… Member Donation 2 Acknowledgements “How to Submit a Festival 3 Video” by Roberto Alaniz Coco Wire – News and 3 Member Gossip 4 “How to Record Your Music Video” by Roberto Alaniz At Fort Collins 2017, HSGA Secretary-Treasurer Roberto Alaniz (right) with his brother Jorge. Roberto has been instrumental in organizing this year’s HSGA Virtual Festival. “Territorial Airwaves 40th 4 Anniversary” by R. Alaniz HSGA’s Virtual Festival Is On! “My Last Conversation with 5 Benny Kalama” by Frank By Roberto Alaniz be available at anytime after the sched- Della-Penna uled date for viewing or reviewing. We are excited to announce that The festival will be streamed “Hale‘iwa Hula” – Steel Arr- HSGA’s first Virtual Festival is sched- through various channels, including 6 angement by Mark Prucha uled for Saturday and Sunday, January the HSGA website, the HSGA Face- 23-24, 2021. The format will be simi- book page and YouTube, and will be 9 “How to Make a $5 Cell- lar to what we are used to seeing at our open to the public. No registration is phone Stand” by R. Alaniz Fort Collins festivals, with member required and, while there is no fee for performances, workshops, and special viewing, there is a suggested donation “Thoughts from an Old guests from Hawaiʻi. We are pleased to of $25. We encourage non-members to 10 Contributor” by Anthony Lis announce that this year’s honored join HSGA in lieu of making a dona- HSGA New Member guests will be Hawaiian steel guitar tion. The annual membership dues are 12 Acknowledgements player Geri Valdriz and The Kīkā Kila $30. Non-members can find the online Band from Maui. membership application on our web- 12 Treasurer’s Report from The Virtual Festival will be pre- site at hsga.org. Roberto Alaniz recorded and available through the We are asking members who want internet. Viewers will be able to pause, to perform to submit pre-recorded vid- or leave and return to the program at eos of their performances, up to 15 any time. In addition, the videos will Continued on Page 2 HSGA QUARTERLY VIRTUAL FESTIVAL Cont. from Page 1 form­­er Application included with your Volume 36, Issue 139 newsletter as soon as possible. Appli- minutes in length. You are not required cations must be received no later than to use the entire 15 minutes. Members November 30, 2020. A detailed festival may use their cellphone, digital video performance schedule will be posted on recorder, or PC to record video of their the HSGA website in January. OFFICERS performance. Please see the articles Thank you for your support and Frank Della-Penna (DC), President that follow for detailed instructions and participation, as one of our goals is to Margie Mays (AZ), Vice-President Roberto Alaniz (CA), Secretary-Treasurer suggestions on how to record and sub- recruit new members. Please share this mit a video performance. invitation widely. See you at HSGA’s DIRECTORS Jack Aldrich, Seattle Non-members and professional inaugural Virtual Festival! n Teri Gorman, California players may also submit videos for John Limbach, Montana Chris Ruppenthal, Wisconsin consideration. As time allows, we will Mike Wittmer, Fort Collins include as many entries as possible. HSGA Donations FORMER DIRECTOR EMERITUS However, priority consideration will be Thanks, HSGA members for your Jerry Byrd given to current HSGA members. donations this past quarter. Special JAPAN COORDINATORS Here is the workshop schedule as it thanks to perennial donor Rick Collins Masakatsu Suzuki, Shinichi Kakiuchi now stands: On Saturday, January 23, of Clare mont, California for his gener- QUARTERLY EDITOR John Ely <[email protected]> member Chris Ruppenthal will present ous $100 donation to our General Fund, WEBMASTER his popular workshop “Antique Aloha: so important for the day-to-day opera- Mike Wittmer <[email protected]> Hawaiian Music of the Golden Age,” tions of our club. Mahalo, Rick! SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR including a generous sampling of pre- The following members donated at John Mumford cious vintage 78 rpm recordings. On least $10: ORIGINAL CLUB FOUNDER Sunday, member Al Nip will conduct a Robert & Mary Moore, Wellington, CO Lorene Ruymar (1985) ‘ukulele workshop. Dick Morris, Salisbury, MD STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association is a Our Virtual Festival should be a Gloria V. Umbarger, Rancho Palos tax-exempt, nonprofit educational corpora- novel and fun way to enjoy and share Verdes, CA tion in the State of Hawai‘i under Section our music! If you would like to perform, David S. Wier, Okeechobee, FL 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our primary purpose is to develop a global net- please complete and submit the Per- work of players and lovers of traditional Hawaiian music and to encourage the study, teaching, and performance of the Hawaiian Our Virtual Festival Guest Artist, Geri Valdriz (left), pictured here at the 2014 Maui Steel steel guitar. Our primary financial goal is to Festival and seminar presenter, Chris Ruppenthal (right), performing at Ft. Collins last year. provide scholarship assistance through donations to steel guitar students who dem- onstrate the ability and intent to become accomplished performers. MEMBERSHIP Membership is open to all steel guitar play- ers and non-players around the world who support the perpetuation of the Hawaiian steel guitar. Annual dues are US$30. The membership year begins July 1. Members receive the HSGA Quarterly and other group benefits. The Quarterly is mailed four times a year First Class to addresses in the United States and by Air Mail to foreign addresses. Members can obtain an Associate Member- ship for a spouse or family member at a cost of $10, added to the annual dues; an Associ- ate Member is entitled to discounts at certain HSGA functions and can vote in HSGA Board elections. SUBMIT ARTICLES & COMMENTS TO: HSGA Quarterly, 2145 Tiffany Walk, Manteca, CA 95336-9555 USA; E-mail: [email protected]. In addition, email submitted items directly to the editor at [email protected]. Let- ters to the president and general club com- ments should be sent to: Frank Della-Penna, P.O. Box 18323, Washington, DC 20036. 2 Coco Wire We’re excited about the upcoming Virtual Festival scheduled for January 23-24, 2021. As mentioned our Honored Guest is Geri Valdriz and also confirmed are seminars conducted by Chris Ruppenthal and Al Nip. It’s coming together! Be sure to check our website for late-breaking details. HSGA Japan Representative Masakatsu Suzuki sent us the following news at presstime: “We recently appointed Kiyoshi ‘Lion’ Kobayashi to a superior post here at HSGA Japan. He will function as an adviser for both musical activities and other aspects of our opera- tion.” Mahalo, Masakatsu san! You’ll notice that this issue does not include our nor- Last year’s Fort Collins Honored Guest Ed Punua from the Island mal listings for weekly Hawaiian music gigs or our Island of Kaua‘i playing steel with his dad Victor on ‘ukulele. festival schedule and reporting, as we are sadly still strapped with coronavirus stoppages! Hopefully, this will change in the coming year, and we’ll keep you posted on How to Submit a Festival Video Hawaiian steel events as they “trickle” back into the pic- By Roberto Alaniz ture. Auwe! Videos to be included in the Virtual Festival must be Snail-Mailing Your Files received by HSGA not later than November 30, 2020. All If you’re not comfortable uploading your files, you can sim- videos must be in 1080p (pixel) resolution and recorded at ply save them to a USB flashdrive, SD Card or DVD and 30 fps (frames per second). mail it to: John Mumford, 7956 S. Monaco Ct., Centennial, CO 80112. If you want your drive or SD Card returned to Performer Application you, please send return postage with your drive. Please make sure and let us know in advance of your intent to submit a video by completing and submitting the If you are having problems getting your files to us, Performer App lication as soon as you can prior to November please contact me at [email protected] or phone 30. The application is available on the HSGA website and (510) 449-3936. Mahalo! n can be completed and submitted electronically. Alternatively, you can use the application form included From Fort Collins, pro player Chris Kennison showing his stuff on with your newsletter. Mail your completed application to: a Weissenborn-style steel at last year’s Fort Collins Festival. HSGA, c/o Roberto Alaniz, 2145 Tiffany Walk, Manteca, CA. 95336. To expedite the process you can also scan the application and email it to me at roberto.alaniz@comcast. net, or take a picture of the completed application and text it to (510) 449-3936. Once you have completed your video, you can either upload your video files or save them on a flashdrive, SD Card, or DVD and mail it to us. Uploading Your Video Files If you decide to upload your files to Google Drive, Dropbox or another file sharing service, share the files with John Mumford at: [email protected]. Be sure to include the required download information in your email to John. Please note that uploading larger files can take quite a while depending on your connection speed. 3 How to Record Your Music Video By Roberto Alaniz Modern technology provides us with several options for recording music videos: you can use cellphones, digital video cameras/recorders, and laptops or PCs with integrated or connected cameras and microphones.