The Royal Hawaiian Band came to entertain us at 15 Craigside.    Clarke Bright  is the Bandmaster, as he has been since 2011.  I know him because when he was a student at the University of Hawaii, he worked for the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, which I directed.  His father is the legendary  Ronald Bright  ( photo to the left ), who appeared in a range of entertainment venues throughout Hawaii, and seemed to have been in charge of a lot of them. The Royal Hawaiian Band is the oldest and only full-time municipal band in the USA.  Formed in 1836 when these islands were ruled by King Kamehameha III.  It started as a military band, but attained global prominence under the leadership of Prussian Heinrich "Henri" Berger, loaned by the Imperial German Army to the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1872.  He would later be honored as the "Father of Hawaiian Music."  Berger collaborated with King Kalakaua in creating  Hawaii Ponói,  the official state song.   Click on that link  to wat