 if i sing a song let it be let it echo shade it in peaceful is what i seek is what i see if you sing a song today is not cannabis chronicles it is about carnival this next week in fact is carnival it is a tuesday before ash wednesday and of so today we will have our guest who is the founder the creator of carnival in san francisco and she is the goddess of latin music in honolulu adel adela true adela aloha darlin aloha yes oh i'm so glad that you're with us well tell us a about you tell us about adela i was born in panama and uh i always love carnival because it was my favorite time of the year and um i moved to the states to come to college and i but i was always dreaming of having a carnival here in hawaii and i came up with my dream why i was just in the united states and um and my first opportunity to do that happened when i was in san francisco and i was in for excellent and i gave a carnival and i had over 100 participants they all had such a good time they wanted to do it every week so that was my first so my first carnival the word carnival uh is it different from mardi gras or because mardi gras just means fat tuesday so um when we think of mardi gras we think of new orleans so what's the difference in carnival in san francisco in hawaii and new orleans what's it or is there a difference there isn't a difference actually uh carnival just is more like the latin way of saying it and the way it's recognized in all of some way around because it's called latin and um and actually it's called latin it's called latinal and um it's known as fat tuesday mardi gras you know mardi is tuesday uh it's the two different things ash wednesday and ash wednesday is the day we remember mad that our dust and unto the special and and that's when so that's the difference between um you know it's just it's just different languages in a way yes of course um but the idea is to to have a good time to live it up while you can before you have to give everything up to let that idea yes but because that it was never yet and for that it was um in the roman days it was bachas it was the time when when everybody was doing the great and uh um there was a big great harvest and so everybody was a little bit drunk and so um yeah so that's a bachas okay so um because you see who's the god of the great and um so originally it really was patronalia and it came in with the romans and the Greeks and then the romans um and it was such a big big feast that i think what happened was that the church couldn't control it so they turned it into part of their whole system of um days and weeks and so forth and so it always happens four days before length four days before ash wednesday so you have carnival saturday carnival sunday carnival monday and carnival twos is a big day it's the day of mazica fat twos day have to get it all out you know no matter what how you think as much as you can you drink as much as you can you know you dance you go out on the street you just have a really good time yeah so now the the clothing the the costuming is there a each crew carnival crew i guess is what you'd call it they all look so different is there just a difference in the crew or the design means something oh it depends on where you are like um we have what we call contingents right but uh if the brazilian the brazilian word is escola escola disamba and escola will have a theme and that theme will be uh all the way through so it'll it'll be colors everybody will wear the same colors and then they'll represent something a different theme it'll it changes every year yeah yeah the the group has a group though it has you know they you call it comparsa in my country we call it comparsa most of central america they call it comparsa so you're in a certain comparsa yeah so that that's like in english a crew exactly carnival crew yeah exactly so now tell us about the carnival crew you and the crew here um at the blue note so tell us all about what's going to happen okay at blue notes my friend mike lewis asked me if i wanted to do something for carnival and i said of course and so my band is involved with it my band is a city de libre and we play carnival songs from all over the world so we're going to have a sprinkling of examples of carnival rhythms that come from different places like he's going to he's going to come then doing the neolian style of carnival and uh then we're going to represent trinidad by doing a song that i actually got off of a black uh what do you call it um a country band um hate that came out of trinidad that was uh a fellow that was uh in my school at the time went every year carnival he was just a carnival of the chenado and he came back with his tape and he loaned it to me i listened to it one day and there was this hung on it called shoulda woulda cuda a cautionary tale and i i just thought it was so funny and great so i you know i i mounted it from my my group and so our group is going to do that that's from trinidad uh we're going to represent the Dominican Republic by doing a really good merengue and it's a merengue that i wrote it goes uh i like dance my merengue backwards if you like the merengue do it to the side i like the merengue but i don't like when i'm pushed around dance the merengue dance it going forward so the the those are the words in the song they kind of teach you how to dance it um and it was something that i created and i'm going to do that merengue which which has the rhythms of the merengue that come from the Dominican Republic and then i'm going to do a song that i wrote uh called amora mi panama or love with panama that explains all the kinds of different feelings that people have during when they're having a party and the things that they eat mucha quiza one do carimayola describing all the foods that have been eaten and how people are happy and and how from far away you can hear the drums are playing diva diva mi panama and diva it means like a long live you know and it's a song about panama so i'm going to do that one and i'm going to do the which is by which is the huge truck that has that 35 instruments all hand glaring it's like a whole like a wall of town comes in behind the queen that kind of looks fine and inside them there are all of these screaming and yelping and singing and dancing and they claim the the happiest uh professor is the one is is the blend and in the future not it's just to it's one from the adivina which is um now how many people are in your band how many people who are they i have okay i have uh Cheryl Bartlett is my singer and Dave Yamazaki is playing bass and uh mike lewis is playing on on uh trumpett and he's bringing in two other players i'm not sure who they are um and uh kim duffett is on come to us percussion yes okay and rogerio araujo who is wonderful playing percussion with us as well and i'm hoping my very dear friend marielena will make it back to real in time she's a fundaido player what is that i heard that she was coming back the fundaido is kind of like a mini drum it looks like a tambourine but you can't like a gym and she thinks that she's like ten or eleven years old and she's really like that i'm hoping she shows up and plays with us too so now it's at the blue note so how much is there are there tickets uh what's or do we just show up do we need reservations um you can get the reservation it's probably a good idea that reservation um the ticket tickets are 25 it goes all the way up to i think 45 depending on where you're sitting and i think there's a special combined rate so that's and it's that blue note it's that close to the out it's inside of the out rigger um on color color street yeah yeah so all we have to do is call the blue note for reservations is that what happens yeah you call the blue note and um or you can do it online with um blue note com okay i'm sorry it's blue note hawaii dot com oh blue note hawaii that's other place yeah yeah that makes sense and what time what day now we know it's uh coming up real soon yes it's on tuesday march the fifth at what time tuesday march uh they have two shows at six thirty and nine o'clock oh we're gonna be out in the front also um um on the street so yeah we'll start it in the street and there will be some beads with discounts on them as well so um that's an option if you if you don't get a chance to you know to sign up in advance that's an option oh wonderful so we get to participate outside and go in march inside is that the way that works absolutely yes and marvelous i am so happy i'm looking forward to this and you know we are just about out of time but what i do want to thank you so much for hanging in there with us with this new software and um but i am again looking forward to this thank you so much oh yes for anyone that didn't know our opening song we have to give the credits to the composer who is Adele and i just had to play that piece for you because i absolutely love it so again thank you so much and we will see you on tuesday right absolutely okay thank you march out thank you my dear aloha aloha and we'll see you next time