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Introducing Three Strings: Everything Sanshin
Today we’re announcing a new website called Three Strings: Everything Sanshin. We’re hoping it’ll do for sanshin, what Karakui.com has done for Okinawan pop culture: make information for that subject available to a larger audience. Please kindly add the website to your browser’s bookmarks or even better, add it to your newsreader. Nifee deebitan! Richie,…
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Onward to 80,000
Currently at 79,499 hits, I think we’ll hit the 80,000 mark in a couple of days. Yay! Thank you for visiting Karakui.com and I promise that we’ll do our best to keep new (and hopefully interesting) content coming.
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17 entries for 9/1/08!
First of all, I want to say mahalo to all of you who stopped by to say hello to me at this year’s Okinawan Festival. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it there on Saturday and I performed all-day on Sunday but meeting you all really made my day. So, thanks!!! 😀 So you may’ve…
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Live blogging at the Okinawan Festival
Not sure if I’ll even have time to do this (I’m one of the performers for the festival), but I’m hoping that this’ll be the first year that I’ll be live-blogging from the HUOA Okinawan Festival. The festival, the 26th, will be held at Kapiolani Park (Honolulu, Hawaii) from Saturday 8/30 to Sunday 8/31. More…
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Site News: Three posts (so far) for the month of June 2008
Sorry for the lack of updates this month folks, been busy with the usual and it’s not that there’s a lack of news to blog about as I actually have a bunch of half-baked articles saved as drafts—many of which may or may not ever see the light of day here. (Gosh, that was a…
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50,000 and counting
I’ve been pretty busy to blog about this and we’re already 3,000+ hits past 50,000, so as I mentioned back in February when Karakui.com reached the 40,000 hit mark, I wanted to do something special for 50,000: I have three autographed copies of Keith Nakaganeku and Calabash’s awesome debut CD to give away. To win…
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Less than 50 hits to 40,000!
And here I was thinking of doing something special when we hit the 10,000 mark back in August ’07. We’re just about to reach 40,000 hits but I think I’ll shoot for 50,000 for the special giveaway(s). (I actually have a bunch of autographed CD albums from Keith Nakaganeku’s wonderful debut CD to give away…
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Site News: New year link cleansing
Just an announcement that I’ll be going through my blogroll links to delete the ones that look abandoned or dead.
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30,000 hits!
Here’s wishing all of Karakui.com’s visitors a happy and safe holiday season. Nifee (thanks) to all of you for the 30,000 hits (well, we’re actually about 11 shy but what the hey) from December 2006 to December 2007. Not too shabby for an Okinawan pop culture blog. 🙂
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