Brother Noland Explained

Brother Noland is an American musician and author, known chiefly as a performer of Hawaiian music and slack-key guitar.

Noland was raised in a musical family; his mother and brother were hula dancers, and he began playing music in clubs while still a teenager in the 1960s.

Noland is known as the "Father of Jawaiian music",[1] and one of his best-known songs in this idiom is "Coconut Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Pineapple Express.[1] Other songs which received airplay in Hawaii include "Pua Lane", "Are You Native?", and "Backfire".[2] In 2014, the Hawaii State House of Representatives of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature passed H.R. 205 that recognized Brother Noland for a lifetime achievements and his impact on island music.[3] As of 2017, he was touring and recording with a ten-piece band, the Brother Noland Conjugacion.[4] His most recent album, His Songs His Stories His Style, arrived in 2017.[5] [6] In 2019, he was honored by the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts for the Lifetime Achievement Awards.[7]

Noland is also a published author and philanthropist. In 1999, he published Lessons of Aloha, a collection of inspirational short stories.[8] He runs a series of nature and subsistence-advocacy camps, principally on Molokai, and in 2013 published The Hawaiian Survival Handbook, a guide to living off the land in Hawaiʻi.[9]

Discography

Notes and References

  1. https://keolamagazine.com/community/brother-noland/ Brother Noland: Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter Shares his ‘Less Talk, More Do’ Philosophy
  2. http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/October-2015/The-25-Greatest-Hawaiian-Songs-of-the-21st-Century/index.php?cparticle=3 The 25 Greatest Hawai‘i Songs of the New Century
  3. Web site: House of Representatives, State of Hawaii . 2014 . House Resolution: Recognizing Brother Noland for a lifetime achievements and his impact on island music . 2023-08-04 . Hawaii State Legislature.
  4. http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2017/12/28/community/brother-noland-new-cd-new-band-three-shows/ Brother Noland: New CD, new band, three shows
  5. http://bigislandnow.com/2017/11/15/brother-noland-2/ Brother Noland
  6. https://www.khon2.com/news/local-news/wake-up-2day/-50th-state-of-mind-to-feature-brother-noland-john-cruz-kalapana/1313296757 "50th State of Mind" to Feature Brother Noland, John Cruz, Kalapana
  7. Web site: Berger . John . 2019-10-24 . Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts honorees look back at lives of achievement . 2023-08-04 . Honolulu Star-Advertiser . en-US.
  8. http://archives.starbulletin.com/2005/08/21/features/story2.html Brother Noland’s book offers reminders of aloha spirit
  9. http://www.midweek.com/brother-noland-the-hawaiian-survival-handbook/ Surviving With Brother Noland

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