{"id":75920,"date":"2017-11-21T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/local-band-the-aloha-club-to-play-at-mesa-verde-luminaria\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:53:19","slug":"local-band-the-aloha-club-to-play-at-mesa-verde-luminaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/local-band-the-aloha-club-to-play-at-mesa-verde-luminaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Local band The Aloha Club to play at Mesa Verde Luminaria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5cddb0b2-85cf-4146-b5ba-fecae660c599&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1569\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"The Aloha Club\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Aloha Club<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Aloha Club plays to bring joy and sense of community to audiences.<\/p>\n<p>The band will play a mix of Hawaiian and Christmas music at Mesa Verde National Park\u2019s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/meve\/planyourvisit\/calendar.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luminaria Holiday Open House<\/a> on Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Mesa Verde will be lighting luminarias, also known as farolitos, around the headquarters loop of the park.<\/p>\n<p>Other acts at the event will be the Red Sky Drum Group, Southwest Singers, David Nighteagle playing Native American flute and Yvonne Bilinki performing Native American storytelling, according to Janice Buckreus, supervisory park ranger.<\/p>\n<p>The Aloha Club was founded in 2015, after Beth Wheeler purchased a ukulele and found people in the Cortez area who also play and enjoy the instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The band consists of four members \u2013 Beth Wheeler, Herb Folsom, Tom Kochanski and Sandy Hoagland \u2013 and has played at Cortez and Mancos farmers markets, Dolores River Festival, Escalante Days in Dolores, street fairs in Mancos, and the WildEdge and Mancos breweries.<\/p>\n<p>The Aloha Club plays a variety of music, from the Beatles to traditional Hawaiian music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a blend of island music and acoustic rock and roll,\u201d Folsom said. \u201cThere are three ukuleles and a guitar, a flute and a caj\u00f3n.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band evolved out of a passion for music, according to Folsom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we bring a lot of aloha to the music, which is kindness and sincerity,\u201d Folsom said. \u201cIt is a lot of things that underly our music, I think, generosity all these things that the Hawaiian culture embodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for the band came from a love of Hawaiian culture.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler and Folsom have friends who live in Kauai, Hawaii, and Kochansky has lived in Hawaii himself.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wheeler and Folsom, Hawaii \u201cgets in your blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people like hearing the Hawaiian music,\u201d Wheeler said. \u201cIt is different. It is more of a variety, and I think people are surprised to hear what ukuleles can do. We surprise them with the variety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band\u2019s name was inspired by the familial component of traditional Hawaiian music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons we call it \u201cThe Aloha Club\u201d is because people who are in the same room, listening to our music and dancing and singing with us, we are all members of The Aloha Club,\u201d Wheeler said. \u201cI feel like it is kind of a circle where the people who are enjoying it are The Aloha Club too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaiian-style band will perform at annual event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,173,559,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mesa-verde-national-park","tag-music","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75920"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}