There are occasional guest musicians, too: horn players, hand drummers and slack key guitarists. These Wednesday night parties usually start off pretty subdued, but as the hours creep by after the sun goes down and the crowd gets livelier, the band starts to kick their act into high gear and the place gets loud.Ī drummer in the back bangs away on a dusty-looking drum set, rarely illuminated by the spotlights aimed at the line of players on the bench sitting like birds on a wire. Onstage, members of the band sit in a row on a long, sturdily built wooden bench plucking guitars, basses, ukuleles and more, while patrons in brightly colored shirts and flower leis strung around their necks boogie down on the dance floor below. True to its name, Uncle Robert’s features an “Awa Bar” where locals and visitors alike drink the bitter elixir, usually out of coconut shell halves. Awa, otherwise known as “kava”, is a traditional Polynesian drink made from the root of a plant in the pepper family, consumed for its mildly sedative and relaxing effects. This is where the Kalapana Awa Band – a fixture of the Big Island music scene for years – plays every Wednesday evening as the venue’s house band, blasting out everything from old-time country hits to local Hawaiian-infused reggae to rock ‘n’ roll to rumba. ![]() At the edge of a lavafield along Puna District’s rocky coastline lies the tiny fishing village of Kaimu and its world-famous open-air live music venue simply known among locals as “Uncle Robert’s”.
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