American Samoa Music Artists return from the “I love Samoa tsunami relief concert” Monday November 9, 2009
By T. Gasu webmaster@samoanews.com

American Samoa artist’s Ekredible and RasMas. They just came back last week from “ I love Samoa” tsunami relief concert that was held in Apia on Oct 31. [photo by T.Gasu]
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The DIGICEL phone company in Apia, Samoa worked hand in hand with the Dawn Raid Label in New Zealand to put together a tsunami relief concert to raise money for the tsunami victims in Samoa. Dawn Raid’s Label includes some of popular artists like Brother – D, Mareko, Devolo, Sweet and Irie, Scribe, and Savage.

According to American Samoa’s music artist Ekredible, Dawn Raid and their New Zealand artists group have been hosting relief concerts in New Zealand to raise funding for the tsunami victims in Samoa. He added “Dawn Raid came to Apia with a total of NZ$250,000.00 and that money was combined with the relief concert money that Ras Mas and I performed in, and it will be contributed to the tsunami victims of Samoa”.

The concert was held Friday, October 30th in Tuana’imato Apia, and more than 400 spectators supported the effort. Admission cost 10 tala per ticket.

Ekredible said that he was invited to perform for the tsunami relief concert, and “I wanted to take Ras Mas with me because we have collaborated very closely with each other lately, and we have a couple of songs together. Ras Mas agreed to help out for a good cause”.

“We had to hype up the crowd 684 style since we were the only artists from American Samoa. We had very good feedback from the crowd, especially since one of our songs is currently number one in Apia on the top ten music program”.

Said Ras Mas about the concert, as well as their trip. “this is the first time I have performed in front of a sold out concert crowd, and it was a great feeling doing it for the people. We sang one of our new tracks called “Whistle”, and we finished off the night with our number one song in Apia’s top ten program, “PrettyLiL Teine”. He added, “on our second day there in Apia, we went out to the villages that were affected by the tsunami to lend a helping hand”.
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Comments to this story (6)
Once An English Teacher  wrote:
17 Nov 2009 08:47 AM
Hey Teine o le Pala, GROW UP. Bad grammar is bad grammar, period. Do you enjoy hearing someone write or speak Samoan improperly? If you're going to write in English, learn to write properly. "Poor in being yourself and acting right"? Because I pointed out that something wasn't written properly? "If that's the pride and your problem correcting everyone"? No, it's not my pride, it's the shame of people like you who never learned to write properly and get arrogantly defensive when someone points this out. So now the newspapers are supposed to include errors because errors are human nature? Fine, you guys edit the paper, so it will properly reflect your illiterate humanity.
-->teine o le pala<--  wrote:
10 Nov 2009 02:47 AM
amen human nature... there is a saying in our culture and this nature "E SILI LE POTO I LO'O LE FIAPOTO" so no matter if you were once an english teacher and if that's the pride and your problem correcing everyone and get smart off one mistake uso e le o le sa'o na...teuteu muamua ou mua fale ona e sau lea in public fia poto....you may be rich in english grammar and all but you may be poor in being yourself and acting right...say it in a nice way ae aua tui patua pe a'amu i taumafagia a leisi ou uso....o le natura lava lea o le samoa e toso i lalo leisi samoa pe a vaai atu ua manai ma lelei se taumafaiga hope you'll learn a lesson sooner or later i le fia poto>soifua manuia le asoteine o le pala
A Student  wrote:
10 Nov 2009 02:32 AM
[Correction] Said Ras Mas about the concert, as well as their trip, “This is the first time I have performed in front of a sold out concert crowd, and it was a great feeling doing it for the people. We sang one of our new tracks called, 'Whistle', and we finished off the night with our number one song in Apia’s top ten program, 'PrettyLiL Teine'." He added, "On our second day there in Apia, we went out to the villages that were affected by the tsunami to lend a helping hand." Did I pass the test Once An English Teacher? You are right, it is poorly written.
Human Nature...  wrote:
09 Nov 2009 05:45 PM
Once An English Teacher-Why don't you enlighten the whole world with what's wrong in the last paragraph? I'm sure it was a typo error as we all make mistakes. To err is human, to forgive is divine, se o oe e sa'o ai le pese a Michael Jackson-"Why, Why, TELL THEM THAT IT'S HUMAN NATURE"...Le human nature lava na a tatou o le fiapoto ae le fa'aaoga lelei le taimi ma le avanoa e fa'asa'o ai lou uso tuaoi!
DubboTap  wrote:
09 Nov 2009 02:52 PM
Then go ahead and give him a grade then Smarty Pants!!!
Once An English Teacher...  wrote:
09 Nov 2009 07:57 AM
Nice story, but will somebody please teach this writer how to write a quote? Can any 5th grade English students see what's wrong in the last paragraph?