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Awards & Achievements

1998

Merrie Monarch Festival

Hilo, Hawai‘i

Category Award
Wahine                   Kahiko 1st Place
‘Auana 1st Place
Overall 1st Place
Kāne Kahiko 1st Place
‘Auana 2nd Place
Overall 1st Place

Kamehameha Day
Hula Competition

Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Category Award
Wahine Kahiko 4th Place
‘Auana 2nd Place
Overall 1st Place
Kāne Kahiko 1st Place
‘Auana 1st Place
Combined Kāne
& Wahine
Kahiko 1st Place
‘Auana 1st Place
Kūpuna Wahine Group 2nd Place

King Kalākaua Hula Festival

Ikaho, Japan

Category Award
Kūpuna                     ‘Auana 1st Place

Queen Lili‘uokalani Keiki
Hula Competition

Category Award
Kaikamāhine Kahiko 1st Place
‘Auana 2nd Place
Miss Keiki Hula
(Davelyn Bolosan)
Soloist 3rd Place
Hawaiian Language Keiki 1st Place

Makaha Bash Makaha Sons

Waikīkī Shell, Honolulu Hawai‘i

Kumu Hula Sonny Ching, Hālau Nā Mamo O Pu‘uanahulu. Mt. Kalihi Productions Inc., Promoter, Oceanic Cable Sponsor. May 23, 1993.

Waiki‘i Music Festival ’98

Pūnana Leo O Waimea and Waiki‘i Homeowners

Kumu Hula Sonny Ching, Hālau Nā Mamo O Pu‘uanahulu with Māhiehie. Nani and Ed Yap, Coordinators, Waiki‘i Music Festival 1998.

King Kalākaua Hula Festival
for Overall Winners of the
Merrie Monarch Hula Festival

Ikaho Japan

Kumu Hula Sonny Ching and Hālau Nā Mamo O Pu‘uanahulu with Māhiehie. August 1998–1999

Asa Miwa, Ka Pā Hula O Māhealani Hō‘ike

Grand New Otani Hotel, Tokyo

Kumu Hula Sonny Ching and Nā Alaka‘i Lōpaka Igarta-De Vera and Gary Casupang perform. November 1998