About
Hoola is a band for hire in Sydney, NSW.
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The show
Every sound you hear at a Hoola booking comes from a musician playing it. No backing tracks are used at any point, which for Hawaiian music matters, because the swing and the pace can shift with the room instead of running to a click. It's a live band from Sydney doing what live bands do.
On the day
Hoola need reasonable access to wherever they're playing, and the surface has to be level. Let them know where the power is when you're arranging things. If the performance is outdoors, they need protection from sun, rain and wind, not just rain.
Performance options
Line-ups run from a duo up to a quintet, and the instruments build as the group grows. The duo is ukulele or rhythm guitar with steel guitar and vocals. A trio adds guitar or bass, a quartet has both, and the quintet brings percussion in on top. Sets are 45 minutes each, either two of them or three. Everything is played live, with no backing tracks anywhere in it.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
28 songs
Akaka Falls Moonlight Swim
Aloha Oe
Aloha Oe Blues On a Coconut Island
Beyond the Reef On the Beach at Waikiki
Blue Hawaii Pearly Shells
Chloe Yellow Roses
Red Sails in the Sunset Down Among the Sheltering Palms
Hawaii Blues Sleepwalk
Hawaiian War Chant Sleepy Lagoon
Hawaiian Wedding Song Song of the Islands
How D'Ya Do? Sophisticated Hula
Hula Blues South Sea Lullaby
Isa Lei Stack-o-Lea Blues
Ja Da Sweet Leilani
Keep Your Eyes on the Hands The Hukilau Song
Ku-uipo Tiny Bubbles
To You Sweetheart Aloha
La Rosita Twilight Blues
Little Grass Shack Ukulele Lady
Lovely Hula Hands Wang Wang Blues
Wear a Lei Holei
Mapuana White Ginger Blossoms
Maui Chimes Yellow Bird
The Breeze and I
