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Apia, SAMOA — Award winning musician and son of the late jazz legend, Mavis Chloe Rivers was welcomed in an Ava Ceremony shortly after he arrived in Samoa this week. La’auli Matt Catingub is seen here accepting his Ava during a welcome ceremony.
La’auli Matt Catingub and the Mavis Rivers Tribute...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Christopher Adolfo Krieg — Eris Tattoo and Barber Shop (Apia, Samoa) smiles for the Samoa News Camera while tattooing a tourist from the biggest cruise ship to dock here this year in American Samoa — the Emerald Princess.
Tourists were able to enjoy something not too...
Wilkeson, WASHINGTON — It’s praise singing time at the Pacific Northwest Samoan Camp Meeting. Adults, teenagers and children alike joined in enthusiastically singing and adding hand motions to the lyrics. It was a special bonding moment the first weekend of September as a multigenerational program...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Ten Polynesian artists will be tattooing LIVE at the Lee Auditorium in Utulei during the Amerika Samoa Tatau Festival, set for Nov. 2, 3, and 5.
All but one of the artists is of Samoan ancestry.
It is a spin-off of the Northwest Tatau Festival, held in Washington State...
Tatau Off the Grid, was the theme, of the 14th Annual Tisa’s Tattoo Festival in Alega Bay, this past weekend, Friday Oct. 26 through Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. The first tattoo of the day this past Friday was this young one, who got a perfect Samoan tatau, in magic marker. Just right to start with....
Senior Airman Darias Faaita stationed at Malstrom Air Force Base, Montana was recently (10/24/2018) selected as the Honor Guardsman of the Quarter.
Only select individuals are able to compete for this award and are eligible for the Honor Guardsmen of the Year award. Pictured is Faaita going about...
Long Beach, CALIFORNIA — In a vacant fenced-in North Long Beach dirt lot just a few doors down from where Leah McKenzie grew up, a mural depicting the 21-year-old now emblazons a bordering wall once used by neighborhood kids to play handball.
The mural, part of an effort to beautify blighted areas...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In just a few weeks, on November 9, 10 & 11 - the Samoana Jazz & Arts Festival — American Samoa will pay tribute to Samoan international jazz singer Mavis Chloe Rivers (1929–1992). Jazz legend Frank Sinatra referred to Mavis Rivers as the “purest jazz voice he...
Laie, HAWAII — One of our very own, Tina Fonoimoana-Reid, owner of Cheat Day Bakery in Nuu’uli, American Samoa, was invited to participate in the third Global Breadfruit Summit hosted by the University of Hawaii Pacific Business Center Program (PBCP) and sponsored by the Polynesian Cultural Center...
Patosina Canales and her daughter Beverley beside the gravesite of their uncle ‘Rudy’ — his final resting place — during last Saturday’s Memorial celebration of Rudolf Annesley’s life, held on the Annesley family land, in Tafuna-Iliili, where friends and family gathered to remember him and say...