Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music) Newsletters

Jane's Pacific Islands Radio Newsletter (Island Music)
Vol. 7, Edition No.15/16/17, March/April/May 2007
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/

I N T H I S I S S U E ____________________________

Objectives
News and Views
Feature Artists
Notice Board
Coming Events
Pacific Islands Radio
Island Music Suppliers
Links
Letters
It's Time To Chat!

T H E V I E W _____________________________________
Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music) News and Views

Welcome everybody to our Newsletter
for March/April/May 2007! Well, I must
say that it is just great to be back in touch
with everybody after such a long time since
our last Newsletter. As always, please let
me take this wonderful opportunity to very
sincerely wish everybody good health,
prosperity, happiness, peace and harmony.

Once again, please join with me in
extending a very warm and sincere
Pacific Island welcome to the incredible
and fantastic number of new members
who have joined us since our last
Newsletter! No word can express my
warmest and deepest appreciation and
gratitude for your huge and most
welcome support.

I would most sincerely like to welcome
you on board! Please make yourselves
feel at home, relax and enjoy the music!
May you also find your stay and time
with us to be enjoyable, mutually
beneficial and most rewarding!

OBJECTIVES

This Newsletter is a listening guide to
the many wonderful listeners of our
Internet Pacific Islands Radio Stations.
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm

In addition, the Newsletter will focus on
issues relating to Pacific Island music. It
also embraces some of the exciting changes
taking place in the Internet Radio Revolution,
as well as updated information on our Pacific
Island Artists, Programming and Playlists.

NEWS AND VIEWS

In this edition of our Pacific Islands Radio
Newsletter, please allow me to share
with you some recent actions in the United
States by the Copyright Royalty Board
which have caused considerable concern
in the Internet Radio Industry. This
particularly relates to the decision of the
Copyright Royalty Board to drastically
increase royalty rates for webcasters.
These royalty rates included a retroactive
$500 per channel minimum that would
certainly impact heavily on many small
webcasters, many of whom could simply
not afford this increase, and would most
likely close down their stations.

These royalty increases were due to go
into effect on May 15 (retroactive to
Jan 1, 2006!), however, according to
the Copyright Royalty Board's statutory
interpretation, the first payments for
Internet radio webcasters are now
due on July 15, 2007 instead of May 15,
2007. This is certainly welcome news for
webcasters, the artists they support, and
the millions of listeners who enjoy the
incredible diversity of programming
Internet radio offers.

In response to representations by
webcasters and their audience, The
Internet Radio Equality Act, H.R. 2060
was introduced into the United States
Senate on the 19th May 2007, by
Representatives Jay Inslee and Donald
Manzullo with the intent of saving the
Internet radio industry. This act is
basically intended to create a level
playing field by bringing the Internet
radio per performance rates into parity
with traditional and satellite radio. Unlike
Internet radio, traditional radio does not
pay royalties to record labels or artists
for songs performed on air

A national coalition of webcasters,
recording artists, listeners and record
labels applauded the Bill's introduction,
expressing their gratitude to Senators
Wyden and Brownback for their
leadership at this critical time for the
Internet radio industry, and the millions
of people worldwide who listen online
every day.

It is certainly most gratifying to see that,
since the Copyright Royalty Board's
ruling, Internet radio listeners, webcasters
and the artists they promote have joined
together to urge Congress to prevent this
vibrant industry from going silent on 15th
July 2007.

On behalf of Internet radio's 70 million
monthly listeners, thousands of webcasters,
and the incredible diversity of talented
artists it supports, Pacific Islands Radio
commends Senators Wyden and Brownback for
their understanding of Internet radio's
importance, and for their leadership in
taking the steps needed to ensure that it
has a viable and promising future.

In addition, Pacific Islands Radio would
like to thank its many loyal and valued
listeners in the United States, who have
played an active role in urging their
congressperson to co-sponsor The
Internet Radio Equality Act, H.R. 2060.

Perhaps it should also be mentioned
that, although an appeal has been
lodged against the new rates, the
outcome of an appeal will take some
time. In the meantime, as the new rates
go into effect immediately, Live365
may have to pay higher rates, starting
from earlier this year, 5th March 2007.
This has resulted in a change to business
policy regarding listening from the
Live365 Web site.

These changes basically include, for
VIP listeners, the "Are you still there?"
campaign. This means that all VIP
listeners will receive an "Are you still
there?" prompt after 8 hours. They
will then need to click on the prompt,
in order to avoid the broadcast from
stopping. For Non-VIP listeners,
there will also be a "Are you still
there?" campaign. This will involve
setting different maximum listening
session lengths and placing various
reminders and prompts on some
non-VIP listeners. These messages
will read something like "Your player
has been running for quite some time.
Your audio stream has stopped
playing. To resume, press continue."
This has been done in an effort to
minimize royalties and help keep
down the cost of broadcasting.

Finally, I would also like to share
with you all, our treasured members,
as well as everybody, the good news
that, over the last month, our flagship
station:

Pacific Islands Radio
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeresture

which now has an extended Playlist
in excess of 56 hours, enjoyed a
listening audience in over 78 countries
worldwide. Particularly gratifying was
the increase in listening hours in
beautiful Hong Kong, which now rates
second only to the one and only incredibly
incomparable United States of America,
in terms of total listening hours for the
month - thank you so very much indeed!

FEATURE ARTIST

Pacific Islands Radio is very proud
to be able to feature on its Playlist
the music of the Somai Serenaders
from beautiful Savu-Savu, Fiji. This
group play a traditional string band
style, unique to the islands, with their
music being played in a very ritualized
fashion, while sitting on the floor or
the ground around a large bowl filled
with kava juice. The group's instrumentation
is three guitars and a ukulele with four
male voices, sung in a soprano range.

The music of the Somai Serenaders is
inspired by the sounds of nature, such
as the rhythm of the wind blowing
through the palm trees. Indeed, it is
almost as if the entire easy-going Fijian
lifestyle is being expressed through the
music. Listeners are invited to imagine
a couple of coconuts floating on the
water and, from that, a song is
composed!

The Somai Serenaders refer to their
style of music as 'Sigi Drigi' - singing
and drinking. It is a harmonious and
melodious style of music that one only
seems to find in the beautiful and
enchanting islands of Fiji.
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NOTICE BOARD

SAVUSAVU SOUTH PACIFIC
MUSIC FESTIVAL 2007

The third Savusavu South Pacific Music
Festival will be held on the 22-25
November 2007. It will feature musical
and cultural events showcasing some of
the region's best musical and dance
performers.

The culturally-rich music festival was
created for three reasons:

1) to celebrate and showcase the South
Pacific Islands music and other performing
arts, featuring Fiji as a central gathering
place for the vent;
2) to increase business to area resorts,
local towns and indigenous operators; and
3) to bring additional interest and awareness
to the Northern Islands and, in particular, to
promote Savusavu as a destination.

OCEANIA MESSAGE FORUMS

I am very pleased to be able to say that,
in addition to our main Oceania Guest Book,
additional Forums have been introduced to
all Web sites of the main islands and islets
of the Pacific, as well as personalities,
along with our Pacific Islands Radio Web sites:
http://pub47.bravenet.com/forum/4004922603

As you are no doubt aware, these Forums
have been most beneficial in bringing together
many people with an interest in and a love of
the beautiful and enchanting music of the
Pacific Islands. You are cordially invited to
share your valuable and important thoughts
and opinions with us all.

Recent additions also include the Web
sites for Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, Republic
of Nauru, Republic of the Marshall
Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Easter Island,
New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Papua New
Guinea, Cook Islands and Pitcairn Island,
Niue, as well as our Oceania Postcards
and Picture Galleries - and many more!
Thank you.

COMING EVENTS

HAWAI'I PACIFIC ISLANDS
KAVA FESTIVAL

~ I Maluhia ka Honua ~
(So that the world may be at peace)

Saturday, October 6, 2007
University of Hawaii, Manoa main
campus, on McCarthy Mall Honolulu,
Hawai`i, 9:00am-5:30pm
Free Admission
Parking on street or on campus ($3)

Aloha!

The Kava Festival, also known in Hawai'i
as the 'Awa Festival, features many aspects
of 'awa as central to culture for Hawai'i
and the Pacific Islands.

Live local music from Hawai'i's hottest music
groups, educational and cultural booths, 'awa
sampling, 'awa plants, food booths, kava
serving implements from Bishop Museum's
Pan-Pacific collection, and Hawai'i's 'awa
serving bars and cafes will be serving the
public with educational presentations also
available.

At the conclusion of the festival we will
also host a scientific conference the next
day.

~ I Maluhia ka Honua ~
(So that the world may be at peace).
Mahalo

POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, HAWAII

The Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii will,
during 2007, offer two new events highlighting
the beautiful culture and dance of the Pacific
Islands. Firstly, a Polynesian Arts Festival,
celebrating the work of Island artisans who
create traditional crafts, clothing and decor,
will be held during the month of July 2007 -
between 2nd July and the 31st July 2007.
Between 21st September and the 22nd
September, a Tongan Festival will be
featured, which will showcase the
harmonious voices of singers and the
syncopated dances of the people of
Tonga.

The Polynesian Cultural Centre will
also continue with many of its signature
events, such as the World Fireknife
Dance Competition (16th May to the
18th May 2007), now in its 15th season,
and the popular Te Mahana Hiroa'a 'O
Tahiti (6th and 7th July 2007), which
features Tahitian dances to the exciting
rhythms of the tamure drums.

MICRONESIA COMING EVENTS

1 Jun* Tree Planting Day (Yap)
6 Jun* Malem Memorial Day (Kosrae)
20 Jul* Utwe Memorial Day (Kosrae)
8 Sep* Kosrae Liberation Day
11 Sep* Pohnpei Liberation Day
23 Sep* Chuuk Liberation Day
1 Oct* Chuuk Constitution Day
24 Oct United Nations Day
3 Nov Independence
(Federated States of Micronesia) Day
8 Nov* Pohnpei Constitution Day
11 Nov Veterans of Foreign War Day
(Pohnpei)
15 Nov* Kosrae State Fair
29 Nov Thanksgiving
(Kosrae and Chuuk)
24 Dec* Yap Constitution Day
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"Coming Events" outlines some of the
many events on our musical and dancing
calendar throughout the year hence the
inclusion in our monthly Pacific Islands
Radio Newsletter (Island Music).

As valued members of our Pacific Islands
Radio Newsletter, you are invited to share
any of your most welcome thoughts and
great ideas about Pacific Island musical
events/festivals, etc. that you feel should
be shared and enjoyed by all our members.
I humbly feel that our members would
greatly appreciate your kind gesture in
sharing this very useful information with us.
Thank you so much!

PACIFIC ISLANDS RADIO

I would like to mention, in response
to some of the e-mails and messages that
I have received, from those wonderful
people who would like to listen to our
beautiful Pacific Island music, but
unfortunately are unable to actually
listen to the music.

Basically, it is quite easy to access and
enjoy Pacific Islands Radio. Once you
have accessed the page, it is most
necessary to firstly log on, in order to
be able to listen to the music. The process
of being able to log on can be achieved
by providing your username and password
before clicking on the yellow 'Play' button
provided on the centre of the page.
Good Luck and Enjoy!

In addition, the many listeners who would
like to purchase the music played on our
Pacific Islands Radio Stations, in CD
format, can obtain details of recommended
suppliers by clicking on Artists' Profiles
on Pacific Islands Radio Home Page:
www.pacificislandsradio.com

Pacific Islands Radio continues to offer a
range of broadcasting formats in order to
allow a wide range of listeners to enjoy
our beautiful island music.

STATIONS

Our Pacific Islands Radio Stations play the
enchanting music of the Pacific Islands 24
hours daily.
www.pacificislandsradio.com
http://www.pacificislandsradio.com/index.htm
http://www.janeresture.com/radio/index.htm

TWO FREE INTERNET RADIO STATIONS:
(See News and Views August/September 2006)

Pacific Islands Radio
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeresture

Radio Melanesia
http://www.live365.com/stations/janeres

VIP PREFERRED MEMBERS -
PAYING MEMBERS
(See News and Views August/September 2006)

Pacific Music Radio (mp3PRO)
http://www.live365.com/stations/drjaneresture

Micronesia Music Radio
http://www.live365.com/stations/jane_resture

PACIFIC ISLAND MUSIC SUPPLIERS

The following are some of the main specialist
suppliers of our music from the Pacific
Islands, which are now being used and are
highly recommended by Pacific Islands Radio.

KING MUSIC -
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Kingmusic offers a wide selection of Pacific
Island music which is available on the Internet.
http://www.kingmusic.co.nz/

ISLANDMELODY.COM

Pacific Islands Radio would like to recommend
Islandmelody.com for a selection of traditional
and contemporary music with an emphasis on
Micronesian music.
http://www.islandmelody.com

BWANARAOI MUSIC SHOP -
TARAWA, REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI

For Kiribati music, along with music from
other Pacific Islands and elsewhere, you
are invited to contact the following
exclusive distributor:

Bwanaraoi Music Shop
Republic of Kiribati
Phone/Fax (686) 28236
E-mail: angirota@tskl.net.ki

LINKS

MUSIC OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND
NATIONS

General

The Pacific Ocean covers a third of
the earth's surface and contains the
deepest waters in the world. It is also
a region with deep musical traditions,
too, buffeted by the regular currents
of colonists and explorers and now
undergoing dramatic changes.You
can hear music ranging from ancestral
navigational chants and glorious
polyphonic singing to laments about
nuclear testing. The ethnic cultures of
the Pacific can be divided into three
main areas - Melanesia, lying mostly
south of the equator, Micronesia,
north of the equator above it, and
Polynesia, spread over a huge area
to the east.
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/music/musicarchive/PacificInfo.html
WELCOME TO THE MUSIC
ARCHIVE OF THE PACIFIC

The Music Archive for the Pacific has
been established by the Southern Cross
University, Lismore, Australia. for the
main purpose of providing a collection
of recordings of indigenous music, related
books, journals, musical instruments and
art works to interested persons for
research purposes.

The archive covers the music of the
indigenous people of Australia (incl. Torres
Strait), Papua New Guinea (incl. Bougainville),
New Zealand as well as the nations of the
Pacific Islands - Cook Islands, Easter Island,
Fiji, Hawaii, Nauru, New Caledonia,
Rarotonga, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti,
Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/arts/music/musicarchive/ArchiveHome.html
MUSIC ARCHIVE FOR THE PACIFIC
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/arts/music/musicarchive/ArchiveArchive.html

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LETTERS

The following are extracts from a few
interesting and most welcome letters that
I have recently received about our four
Pacific Islands Radio Stations, our artists,
music and the Pacific Islands in general.
In this respect, it is my great pleasure to
be able to share these letters with you all
as I find them to be most uplifting, supportive,
motivating and encouraging. They also provide
much needed feedback in order to continuously
monitor and enhance the quality of the service
provided by Pacific Islands Radio.

Please join with me in thanking these wonderful
people for sharing their kind thoughts with us
all.
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Beautiful Music! Hi Jane,
This is beautiful music. Please send me the name
of the music that is playing on Pacific Islands
Radio. I enjoy it very much and I desire a copy
of it, please.
Thank you.
Your heritage music is so beautiful! It's inspiring.

Hello Jane, I have come across your website
and must commend you for a wonderful job
you have done for the Pacific Island people
through the website. Thank you for the initiative.
I am sure the many people around the globe
would have visited your website and grasp the
large volume of information you have in store
regarding cultures, art, lifestyle, music etc for
their consumption The photos are superb. Job
well done. Thank you

Dear Jane
Appreciate
Thank you for playing such beautiful/exotic
music. By listening to Pacific Islands Radio,
my soul will travel where the sun meets the
sea. Keep up the excellent work. God
bless your station and its staff.

Hi everybody!
Check out www.janeresture.com for the
motherlode of information and pics regarding
the South Pacific islands. I have been scouring
this site for a few years to get carving ideas,
and it is packed with postcards and other
images.
There is also a link to Pacific Islands Radio,
which is pretty cool with an occasional
"clunker" tune...like the island version of
"Imagine" they played this morning. Check
out for the Pacific islands. I have been
scouring this site for a few years to get
carving ideas, and it is packed with
postcards and other images.

Hi Jane,
Your site is so amazing. I can feel the love
and dedication you have for all of these
cultures. I really admire your work to expose
the world to this and help solve global warming.
I will direct all my friends to your site.
Anyway, I loved so many of the items on your
site and I don't know if you are selling any,
or a few...

Hi Jane,
I just wanted to drop in and say hello. I just
looked over your web sites. I found things to
be very interesting. Hope you are in good
health and spirits. I live in St. Louis, Mo. USA.
You take care and write back when you have
time. Yours Truly

Dear Jane Resture,
How are you doing? Allow me to introduce
myself. My name is --- and I'm from
Philadelphia, in the United States. I'm currently
going to school for graphic and commercial
design. I just wanted to tell you how much I
enjoy your programs and how much I admire
your work and yourself as a person. I started
listening to Pacific Islands Radio about a year
and a half ago, I enjoy listening on occasion
when I'm online; it's very beautiful. The music
of the South Pacific islands and their people,
I love Polynesia and I would love to travel all
over the South Pacific one day! From Tokelau
to Pitcairn and everywhere in between! Simply
the most beautiful and interesting places on
earth!
I've seen your work; you're a very talented
artist. I love learning about different places
and cultures, especially the South Pacific. I
like Polynesian art and designs. I also open
to listening to all different types of music,
that's how I came across this. I listen to
Polynesian music and some reggae to relax.
It's so peaceful.
I've sent some of my own work for you to see!
I really admire you and I hope that maybe we
could talk sometime, back and forth through
email, and stay in touch. I think you would be
a really cool person to get to know and I love
to just share my work with other great artists.
I love chatting with people from around the
world and it would be an honor to talk to you!
If you'd like to write me sometime, my email
is ...

Dear Dr. Resture.
Thank you so very much for "Colorwind" and
for all of the information you have gathered and
written about the Oceanic region. One day my
wife and I will have travel to that most beautiful
part of the world - it truly is a Paradise. Many
thanks.
By the way, which radio station(s) would play
songs such as "Colorwind?

Hello Jane,
My name is Joe Hartwig. My Mother is
I-Kiribati and she came out to Australia with
me just after I was born in 1985.
Recently I have taken a lot of interest in where
I came from and stumbled across your website.
I put up a post in the Forum saying I am looking
for other Melbourne I-Kiribati people to meet
and today somebody came across it and got in
touch with me.
I just wanted to pen you a personal email to
say thanks for your website which has helped
me with this. Janeresture.com contains some
amazing information on it which I am still trying
to take in.
You must be very proud of where you come
from and that is reflected in from your website
which you have put a lot of work into.
Thanks for your help again.
Regards, Joe H

Hello Dr. Resture;
My name is Allan Schaefer. I live in the western
USA - on the coast of Oregon State. I am 62
years old this month, and have been fascinated
with the South Sea Islands for all of my life.
Thanks to the magic of the internet, I found your
wonderful WEB site with all of its marvellous
descriptions and information. I will be spending
many days exploring this Outstanding contribution
that you have made to the world.
As a child, I knew several WW ll veterans of the
Pacific Theatre.
Their stories of the war, the islands, and the
people of the South Pacific, left me with a lifelong
wish to visit there. Now that I'll be retiring, my
wife and I may be able to travel there. We have
been to the Hawaiian Islands ten times over twenty
five years. That is quite easy and inexpensive to do
from Oregon.
A journey to the Solomons seems to be a lot more
involved. We wonder if we are up to it at our age?
Thank you so much for your great work with this
Web Site.
With the best regards
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IT'S TIME TO CHAT

Our Chat Rooms are always available for
online chatting between parties and can be
accessed via Jane's Oceania Home Page:
http://www.janeresture.com or the URLs:
http://pub18.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/1489671900
http://pub32.bravenet.com/chat/show.php/2702076781

COMMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Your valuable contributions and comments
are always most welcome and they can be
sent to me at:
jane@pacificislandsradio.com

Thank you so much everybody for your
very kind support and for being such
important and valuable members of
our Pacific Islands Radio (Island Music)
Community.

As always, let us all hope for continuing
greater peace and harmony, good health,
prosperity and happiness, for everybody!
I wish you all the very best and please
take care!

May our God bless us all and, as usual,
I look forward to the pleasure of your
company next time!

Jane Resture