Friday, June 20, 2025

Ernest Kaai's Hawaiian Troubadours in New Zealand, 1927


Here's a postcard from 'ukulele legend Ernest Ka'ai's tour of New Zealand in 1927. According to the National Library of New Zealand:

A night in Honolulu". Town Hall, Greytown. Tuesday November 22 [1927]

The troupe appears to have visited the Wellington area in November 1927. The Ephemera collection also contains a programme for a performance at Wellington in April 1925, but this postcard is 1927, based on a perpetual calendar." 

  
Link to image.

Here's a link to the cover of a program from an earlier date at the Grand Opera House in Wellington. 

Apparently Ka'ai spent quite a bit of time in NZ. Here he's quoted with regard to a 1911 tour. Link

And a portrait from the same year:


MR ERNEST KAAI. 
Director of the Royal Hawaiian Concert and Musical Organisation, 
and the finest .Mandolin and Ukulele player in the world.


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