The Merrie Monarch Festival is over and I’m recovering from posting livestreams, videos, stories and stats.
We had thousands of people visit KITV.com for the festival from all around the world. We receive dozens of e-mails from people who watch the event online.
“Our Hawaiian club, Hui o Hawai’i, at Stanford has been watching online together for the past two nights. It’s been great to be able to bring a piece of home here to California while we are away at school. We want to send our aloha to all our ‘ohana and friends at home. Mahalo.”
“Expat local here and I just wanted to say that I’m watching from Italy. I had no idea that there was an online version, so it was nice to be tipped off by a kama’aina!”
“How lucky we feel to be sharing in this beautiful evening of hula and mele. Last night was wonderful (and of course Miss Aloha Hula night) and tonight is starting out so colorful, lyrical, and energetic. Another 4am night,.. and we wish there were more nights to follow.”
Not everyone who wrote in was happy. Some couldn’t get the livestream to work and others couldn’t get audio. I apologize. We are working each year to improve the system.
We have another 12 months to work out more of our kinks.
Aloha-
Brent
