There are no contracts. Jake Rohrer says everything is settled with a handshake based on the Hawaiian tradition of pono.
JAKE ROHRER: "You do the right thing with your artists, with anybody you do business with. It’s a matter of being pono and when everybody is pono with one another, lawyers aren’t needed."
(MUSIC: Hula Honeys)
STEVE EMBER: The Hula Honeys are one of the groups that the Rohrers invited to record on their label. Their CD "Girl Talk" won an award from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts for best Hawaiian jazz album of two thousand ten.
The Hula Honeys, Robin Kneubuhl and Ginger Johnson, say the couple took a chance on them.
ROBIN KNEUBUHL AND GINGER JOHNSON: "We weren't professionals in the beginning. They just took us in and we've gotten to watch not only what we have done with them but what they've done with a lot of other fabulous performers and musicians here on Maui. They're great supporters.
"We're tremendously lucky to have Ululoa because they're coming from the heart. The bottom line is heart with them, and they're only recording music they really believe in. That's rare.”
BARBARA KLEIN: In Hawaiian culture, stories are passed down from generation to generation through songs. Many artists say the Rohrers are helping to save this oral tradition. But Laurie Rohrer says they are just trying to produce good music.
LAURIE ROHRER: "It cannot be said that we are doing what we do to preserve Hawaiian culture. But if by recording Hawaiian people and their music has that as an end result, we would be very happy."
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