Hello friends! Things are heating up at Way Music.
Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, “Rico’s Place,” where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller extraordinaire Rico Woltz, who holds space in Waikiki most evenings by the ABC store on the corner of Kuhio and Kuamoʻo.
In Episode 1, “The Last Thing You’d Ever Think,” we play some original music together, and Rico tells the story of one of the neighborhood’s street people, a Hollywood actor.
Rico is an amazing guitarist, and a keen social commentator with a sharp eye and a ready ear that has allowed him to learn about people in the neighborhood, housed, unhoused, and tourist alike, who come back to chat and listen to the music again and again.
Tonight’s episode is a little less than ten minutes long, just the right length for listening to during a task, and if you like the music, the whole set for that night can be found on soundcloud .