Less than a week to go. On Friday, September 19, Cyril Pahinui — Hi‘ilawe Live arrives. Today’s clip is “Sweet Memory,” with Cyril up front and a guest feature from Mia Tolentino. It is intimate and close, the kind of performance where voice and guitar carry the whole story. “Sweet Memory” is a love song co written by Cyril Pahinui with Larry Lindsey Kimura and Brian Hussey. The lyric moves between Hawaiian and English and turns on simple images of longing and return, the kind of quiet poetry Cy

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