We are blessed to have on our team Karen Fischer, who is our booking agent. She heads and attends regional and national booking events that help us get bookings nationwide in the continental USA as well as in Canada.
When I was growing up, in Kealia, we attended Puka’ana Church (A United Church of Christ) across the street, about a football field away from our home. All 26 cousins, uncles, aunties, and our grandparents would sing Hawaiian Hymns and play Hawaiian music every Sunday.
When I grew up in South Kona Kealia, we had no refrigeration. Everything was either salted, smoked, or dried to help preserve our fish, beef, pork, or lamb meats. One Thanksgiving when I was 13 years old, we decided to have Kalua Turkey for our family.
George Kahumoku Jr. was born and raised in a large extended Ohana, or family, with 26 cousins, his great grandfather Willy Kahumoku and his great grandmother Tutu Koko’o Lottie Haae Kahumoku, in Kealia, South Kona, in the early 1950’s.