Aloha Joe® / Producer

Aloha Joe® is the founder, host, and producer of Hawaiian Adventure Radio Productions and the Aloha Radio Network; internationally known internet radio personality behind the live daily Aloha Joe Radio Show; successful author of numerous romance, mystery, and detective novels; Emmy-Award winning network television writer and producer; game show creator and announcer; voice-over artist, composer, director, and choreographer; and seven time Hawaii Music People's Choice Award winning record producer and father of the hugely successful A Place Called Hawaii & Legends of the Ukulele series.

Ken Emerson / Producer / Artist

San Francisco bay area born/Hawaiian island bred Ken Emerson is a composer and musician considered a living legend and recognized master of Hawaiian slack and steel guitar, famous for his finger-style picking and one-of-a-kind slack/steel style of playing vintage acoustic metal bodied resonator guitars; Kahili Award winner honored for his work perpetuating Hawaiian culture; featured performer and songwriter on the first-ever Recording Academy Grammy Award winning Best Hawaiian Album; artist; storyteller; and Hawaii Music People's Choice Award winning record producer.

Dr. Amy K. Stillman / Producer / Historian

Hawaii born and raised Dr. Amy K. Stillman, Ph.D Harvard University, is a Professor of American Culture and Musicology and Director of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; a historical musicologist and ethnomusicologist who's research focuses on historical perspectives of indigenous performance in Polynesia; expert authority on Hawaiian music historiography; author of numerous scholarly books and articles; poet, composer, and Hawaiian language lyricist; and two time Recording Academy Grammy Award winning record producer.

John Steel / Producer / Historian

John Steel is an esteemed American entertainment journalist and writer with decades of experience and credentials; radio personality; author; music scholar and historian; recording industry work includes general consultant and adviser, composer of liner notes, and record producer.

Bill Lacey / Audio Restoration Engineer

Bill Lacey is the founder of Digital Sound & Picture in White Plains, New York; an Emmy nominated composer; post-production sound designer, mixer, and editor; writer for the esteemed British publications Sound On Sound and Resolution; filmmaking and television lecturer at Montclair State University School of Communications & Media; Recording Academy Grammy Award winning mastering and restoration engineer; audio restoration preservationist having restored the motion picture soundtracks to Hair, The Sound of Music, and La Dolce Vita among many others, and the majority of Cord International & Hana Ola Records vintage catalog of recordings.

J. W. Junker / Historical Liner Notes

Jay W. Junker is a historical musicologist and ethnomusicologist who teaches traditional and commercial music at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; writer and producer of the television series Na Mele for public television as well as numerous video documentaries including Ku'u Home:Hawaiian Songs of Home; has served as music consultant for numerous other productions as well as the Smithsonian Institution, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, the BBC, NHK, and National Public Radio; organizer of concerts for many including the Honolulu Academy of Arts; creator and producer of original radio programming including Na Mele O Hawaii, Pacific Visions hosted by Keali'i Reichel, Music of Hawaii, and the Hawaiian Boogie series on Hawaii Public Radio; contributing writer of articles too numerous to mention for world-wide publications including Billboard and Musician; record producer; and composer of extensive historical liner notes.

Howard Johnston / Audio Restoration

Howard Johnston is the legendary American recording engineer and producer who has recorded hundreds of the world's most acclaimed musicians and contributed his artful engineering to more award-winning albums than could possibly be counted covering an enormous range of musicians representing just about every conceivable genre of music and even film soundtracks including Frances Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now; best known for his mastery recording acoustic piano and guitar and having worked closely with world-renowned pianist George Winston for almost 40 years; business entrepreneur and revered pillar in the San Francisco recording community; past co-owner and operator of the world-famous Different Fur Studios for nearly twenty-five years; innovator; early adapter of cutting edge digital audio editing platform technology; sound designer, mixer, and editor; mastering engineer; audio restoration engineer and historical preservationist.

Kit Ebersbach / Producer

Kit Ebersbach is a musician best known for his mastery of the piano/keyboard and his extensive encyclopedia like memory for even the most obscure tunes that makes him one of the most in-demand players in Hawaii for well over 40 years; co-founder of the group Don Tiki, Polynesian exotica at its finest, "...a wacky antidote and escape from quotidian and politically correct cares..." as he describes it; co-founder of Taboo Records; co-founder of Pacific Music Productions a full service broadcasting media production company and music production studio that also houses Hawaii's largest special effects and production music library; bandleader, music arranger, conductor, composer, sound editor and mixer, recording engineer, and record producer.

Lloyd Kandell / Producer

Lloyd Kandell is an American advertising executive; business entrepreneur; founder of Hawaii's Kandell Advertising; public relations and marketing genius; ordained minister; event coordinator; co-founder of the contemporary Polynesian exotica group Don Tiki; band producer, manager, and congenial host also known as "Fluid Floyd"; co-founder of Taboo Records; and record producer.

Billy Rose / Producer / Historian

Hawaii born Billy Rose, scholar, information technologist and immersive researcher, is a multi-nominated Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Award finalist best known for his multidisciplinary approach to recording projects such as Cord International & Hana Ola Records' ground breaking Japanese Music of Hawaii series featuring Club Nisei and Hawaii Shochiku Orchestras; composer of historical liner notes; and record producer.

Darlene Ahuna / Producer / Artist

Kane'ohe born and raised Darlene Ahuna is a Hawaiian musician; traditionalist; preservationist; singer/ vocalist best known for her powerful, soaring falsetto renditions of time-honored classic Hawaiian hula and hapa haole songs; multiple Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner, including Female Vocalist of the Year; and record producer.

John Keoni Fujitani / Producer

Hawaii's John Keoni Fujitani is a historian; preservationist; scholar; folklorist; promoter of native Hawaiian culture, arts, and history; folk and traditional arts panelist; contributor to Hawaii's Permanent Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture for the Library of Congress; 1970s Hawaiian radio disc jockey; emcee;  founder of Liko Records a company whose focus was preserving intimate, spirited, backyard, traditional Hawaiian music styles not easily accessible through standard commercial venues, "...everyday people singing at a real grassroots level...with songs and artists that cut to the soul of the Hawaiian experience..." as Fujitani described it;  writer; music arranger; composer;  Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Award nominee; and record producer.

Randy Borden / Producer / Artist

The late Randy Kamuela Borden who passed away at age forty-five (October 1997) was a six-foot-six giant of a man both in the physical and spiritual world; Molokai-born musician, singer, songwriter and one-half the 1970s iconic Hawaiian music duo Jon & Randy; Seattle-based producer of children's programs including his signature work empowering special needs children thru karate; Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner; and record producer.

Bobby Ingano / Producer

Hawaii born and raised Bobby Ingano is a musician best known as one of the most in-demand lap steel guitarists in Hawaii; blues guitarist; regular contributor to steel guitar music clinics, conventions, and festivals around the world; Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner; Recording Academy Grammy Award winning featured artist; and record producer.

Cecilio Rodriguez / Producer

Cecilio David Rodriguez is an American musician best known for his collaboration with Henry Kapono as one half of the legendary Hawaii music duo Cecilio & Kapono (also known as C&K); vocalist; guitarist; songwriter; arranger; composer; five time Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts: Na Hoku Hanohano Award winner including Song of the Year for his composition Goodtimes Together; record producer; 2017 GRAMMY Museum honoree as Cecilio & Kapono was featured in an exhibition that placed a much deserved spotlight on the music of the "Hawaiian Renaissance" and the enormous impact on Hawaiian music and the recording industry in the 1970s titled: We Are Friends: A Lifetime Party of 70s Hawaiian Music.

John Parker / Graphic Design

John Parker is a California visual artist and graphic designer best known for his entertainment industry artwork created for record labels, touring bands/artists, and music festivals; founder of Ventura California's Parker Graphic Design; long serving supporter, contributor, and board member for many local community art and music non-profit events and agencies including historical downtown Ventura ArtWalk, San Buenaventura Artists Union, Westside Cultural District, and the Ventura Music Festival; musician; longtime champion of live and recorded music; slack key and steel guitar aficionado; preservationist and promoter of Hawaiian music.

Amy Lyn / Graphic Designer

Amy Lyn is an American graphic designer and artist based in the Midwest with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan; founder of an independent graphic art design company whose creative offerings include advertising design, marketing, medical graphic illustration, print design, writing and editorial work, photo editing, web design, development, and content management; Amy Lyn is best known for her work with professional music and art industry companies and individuals, as well as human rights groups and non-profit organizations; dog lover;  film buff; voracious reader; and artifact collector of art supply antiquity.