"Pana Aloha, Hawaiian Heartbeat "... Instrumental Album of the Year winner of the 2002 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, captures the essence of the Hawaiian heart... A heart filled with love... Love for the land, love for special places, and most of all love for special people. Kapono Beamer captures the essence of the beating of loving hearts. These are songs that echo deep in the Hawaiian soul; always close at hand, pulsating in the back of the mind, and nestled in a loving heart. These songs are complete expressions of their Hawaiian composer's innermost images and feelings of aloha. Kapono says, "I was inspired to create a collection of some of the most beloved Hawaiian melodies, the kind of songs it seems I always knew. Being surrounded by Hawaiian music ever since I can remember, I guess these melodies were planted in my heart at a very young age. Some of my earliest recollections are of my mother dancing the hula to the gentle sounds of an ukulele strumming. I remember the smiling faces of my grandfather, and uncles playing their guitars and singing, and the beauty of my grandmother and aunties as they danced the graceful hula. These songs have lived inside of me since those "small kid" days and I welcome the opportunity to present them, along with one added original song, in a simple setting of new musical arrangements featuring acoustic guitars. I hope that when the listener hears these classic Hawaiian melodies, it will stir deep feelings of kindness, warmth, love, and affection. I hope that your heart too can beat to the rhythm of the ‘Hawaiian Heartbeat’, ‘Pana Aloha’."