LET'S START THIS NEW BLOG RIGHT HERE!

Aloha... I figured, why not just start anew RIGHT HERE!  Good idea!
  A lot has transpired in the art of real life since my noggin last did any bloggin'. Two laptops and a desk top computer along with an iPad and a few phones smarter than me have passed on to the scrap heap in the sky along with hundreds of songs and snippets of potentially brilliant writings...haha aka aka! Lost in cyber space. This new iPad 2 came along just in time to log an awakening in my creative process... I woke up and the writer's block was gone. I feel like writing songs and ideas are flowing. Unfortunately, if I don' write it down it fades away forever. Gotta take my own advice and write down everything that comes to mind. As I recall, that is how my first 40 songs came to be... Quickly, one after the other. Even snippets written at different times came together to be one good song. Way cool! Write it down, carry tape recorder, use the voice recorder on your phone or CALL YOUR ANSWERING MACHINE! Brilliant idea... Keep it and turn it into something wonderful. K den, I'm on a new journey...writing and someday even painting again. New music coming and a couple books I need to get back to writing. Two week cruise across the Pacific coming up. This new iPad is gonna get a lot of action! So, revisit the music at my website and I will point the way to new stuff I have posted since the last posts from a long, long time ago in a blog far, far away.... Enjoy life every minute.. ALOHA...don't leave home without it!

NEW BLOGGIN' NOGGIN

Gonna keep the old blog cuz it's a wonderful archive full of aloha and great information gathered along the way. Lotsa cool stuff to reflect on here... However, I will begin a NEW BLOG focusing on logging my thoughts mostly on the creative process, music, art, songwriting... An ocean of pondering will probably be what happens... Or maybe simply, what's happenin'... I will try to stay up on keeping this current...like an event. Share the music at http://gordonfreitas.com. ALOHA!

Welcome to the Ainafolk Web Log

ALOHA ya'll!
Welcome... new friends & old friends who have found their way here! If you don`t already know, Gordon Freitas is a world traveled, native Hawaiian and good-fun storyteller from the little coffee-pickin' town of Holualoa, Kona on the Big Island. Check out his songs and see how he paints portraits of island people and local culture with his lyric. He is usually found in Honolulu performing solo-lo mia, in a duo or with even more friends having way too much fun, in a band of kama`aina he calls LOCAL FOLK.
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Aloha mai kakou!
Malama pono (take care)
A hui hou ! (Come back... check the schedule... see ya `round)
"PEACEFUL ARIZONA"... An award winning tribute to those we will not forget... composed by a retired U.S. Navy Chief from Hawai'i" (Guess who served on active duty in the Navy for 21 years? )

`aina = land (Hawaiian)
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Duke Ching, 2008 Hawaii Music Award Winner!

This is Duke Ching, legendary steel guitarist at E Hula Mau 2008.

Pau Hana sound check while cruising on the Pride of Hawaii... last aloha tour!

Reposted: This old post was certainly worth resurrecting, especially for the folks who ask me what my job was on the cruise ships. The Pride of Hawai'i was a brand new ship that barely made it a year in the islands before charting a new course to NCL's international fleet as the Jade. As part of the memory, here's a partial glimpse of the mechanics of our Hawaiian Duo -J-O-B. We introduce our guests to Hawaiian free style local jammin' and include lotsa their favorite songs that reconnect them with the good ol' days of their youth... from Don Ho, IZ and Blue Hawaiian Elvis to Bob Marley, and the Beach Boys. We made so many friends on that ship. Usually, the pool deck would be packed... folks gettin' their deep Hawaiian vacation tan while sippin' a boat drink or passing around some Coronas or Coors iced in plastic football helmets. Toward the end of our afternoon shift, a little rain chased off the over-baked sunbathers while the rest were off to dinner reservations and the show in the theatre. For a few months I was doubling as the rock guitarist in the Soul Rockin' Nites show, the wedding band guitar player for Tony & Tina's Wedding production and the solo guitarist in the lounge... not to be confused with the masterful performances of my good friend Butch O'Sullivan in the atrium and restaurant. Anyway, it was time to wind down the show and roll up the hose... when Eddie Pascua decided to whip out his little Nikon and video some of my old school guitar antics. In this video clip I fumbled through some classic chops I forgot a long time ago.. Ha ha aka aka, you can hear us laughing. We had too much fun... not only THAT day, but EVERYDAY! Aside from our goofiness in these moments, couples stopped to dance while the sheltered folks on the upper decks were quite entertained as always. I ended up with an Ibanez guitar after going thru my Godin Multiac Jazz, and a favorite Antigua Fender Telecaster, but here, my first new Schecter guitar + Digitech RP-200 pedal rig proved to have pretty good tone thanks to Eddie tweekin' the pedal to my personal preferences. From this day on the jams only get better as we keep Reeling in the Years! As we acknowledge our new friends who figure we enjoy what we do for a living... with aloha and a smiLe... I hope to be a rock star like Eddie Pascua when I grow up... That buggah is my guitar hero & tech guru. Aloha to that big ship!!

Where's Gordo? Wasabi Happenin'?

Da schedule & where Gordo can be found will be
posted at the top of this blog:
Every Other Tuesday at the Ground Floor downtown, Honolulu. Local Folk solo kine coffee house variety.(Up Alakea, first right on Queen St., right onto Richard.. there on corner, free parking in garage & street... ono grinds).

Local Folk at Waianae Army Rest Camp Feb 21, Saturday evening 6-10, rockin' by the ocean w/ Gordo, Eric Petersen & Pete Moe. Da mix plate folk rock, Hawaiiana traditional/contemporary, country cha-cha ... rock-a-cha aha blue Hawaiian soul-iolo party!

You might even find Gordo playing bass or ukulele with some of your favorite island artisis... Spotted at Higher Ground Coffee & Music Cafe in Wahiawa with Todd Adamski & Adj Larioza playing the grand opening with a line up including Ernie Cruz Jr. and John Cruz... and yes, "that was in the Hawaiian trio" with Greg Sardinha at the Honolulu Airport's International Terminal. Now I'm back on land after 4 years entertaining on the NCL America ships. Picking up a few choice gigs with long-time friends and taking time out to write more songs. "Gotta empty out the space between my ears. " Look for the YouTube.com videoclip at higherground808. Thats our bluegrass buddy Bob sitting in on bass.
Upcoming performance dates at very accessible locations are being planned... dates to be announced... email request for updated schedule to" ainafolk@aol.com

'Aina, title track on Peter Apo new release

Peter Apo released a new CD entitled `Aina, after one of the two songs I wrote. The other song he chose to add to his musical collage was Pineapple Road. Get the CD... its way cool... funky and packed with soul. Mahalo Peter... it's great to be a songwriter, but even better when your song writing friends & mentors choose a song or even two of your songs for their CD... mahalo mo' plenty den much!