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  2. Lūʻau - Wikipedia

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    A lūʻau (Hawaiian: lūʻau, also anglicized as "luau") is a traditional Hawaiian party or feast that is usually accompanied by entertainment. It often features Native Hawaiian cuisine with foods such as poi , kālua puaʻa (kālua pig), poke , lomi salmon , lomi oio , ʻopihi , and haupia , and is often accompanied with beer and entertainment ...

  3. Stix Hooper - Wikipedia

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    Hooper developed an interest in music, drums, and percussion at an early age. Starting in middle school with band director George Magruder, he began devoting much of his time to the study of music. While he was a student at Wheatley High School (Houston) , he formed the band the Swingsters, then the Modern Jazz Sextet.

  4. Pahu - Wikipedia

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    The drums' tall, narrow body is carved from wood, usually from a segment of a coconut tree trunk, and the head is made from dried sharkskin. The traditional Hawaiian Pahu was made from a sectioned and seasoned wooden tree trunk, preferably of coconut wood, although possibly other types of native wood may have been used.

  5. Pamyua - Wikipedia

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    Most of their songs are based on traditional Yupik, Inuit and Greenlandic chants, but the group is well known for reinterpreting them in modern styles, such as the song "Cayauqa Nauwa", which has been performed a cappella (mengluni, 1998) and with Pacific Islander influences (Caught in the Act, 2003), as well as traditionally (Drums of the ...

  6. Music of Polynesia - Wikipedia

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    There is a form of reggae called Pacific reggae which features different instruments such as the ukulele and Pacific Island drums than reggae in other places. [8] Herbs is a popular New Zealand band in this genre. J Boog (USA) is a reggae performer of Samoan descent based in Hawaii. [8] Chris Boomer is a reggae artists from Guam. [9]

  7. Tahitian drumming - Wikipedia

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    The drums musicians play have a hierarchy system. Drummers start on a large bass drum called tariparau (sometimes called pahu). This is the only drum that the very few female drummers in Tahiti play. [2] It has two membranes traditionally made out of sharkskin and is struck with a single mallet making the timbre low but only slightly resonate.

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  9. Ceremonial drum - Wikipedia

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    Ceremonial drums are membranophones and idiophonic slit drums, which are played in a ritual context cult, religious or ceremonial social occasions by indigenous peoples around the world, often accompanied by singing or chanting. Some ceremonial drums were specially made for their purpose and are accordingly elaborately designed.