A hike in Virginia celebrates Hawaiian life through hula and music

The performance of Ka Pilina was among the ho’ike’s highlights. It is a contemporary song (“mele,” in Hawaiian), ostensibly about the musicality of three birds and the forests where they reside, but its meaning is deeper than an English translation might suggest, Kaimana Chee said. It is, as he explained to his students, a composition “of relationships and family and fitting together.”

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