Mokai

About this original series

The Original Folk Blues musician, Mokai is highlighted in a series of vignettes, including documentary footage, live performance video, interview and music video, guest performers. Focus on Fingerstyle Guitar, Songwriting and Roots Americana.

  • # Episodes

    8 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Mokai

    • Play Live performance - 'You Fly Like a Swallow' by Mokai - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Live performance - 'You Fly Like a Swallow' by M...

      Mokai performs his song 'You Fly Like a Swallow' - a tribute to the California Woman - from the main stage of the SF Free Folk Fest in 2010

      • Release date
        May 18, 2012
      • Runtime
        05:39
    • Play Live performance - 'Easy Chair' by Mokai - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Live performance - 'Easy Chair' by Mokai

      Mokai performs his song 'Easy Chair' about a man and his recliner from the main stage of the SF Free Folk Fest in 2010.

      • Release date
        May 18, 2012
      • Runtime
        06:18
    • Play Mario DePolo 90th - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Mario DePolo 90th

      My father, Mario DePolo talks about his life in NYC in the 20s and 30s and about his parents and grandparents lives there at the turn of the 20th century. The videography is not the point, but the fascinating details about the Italian immigrant community in the tenements in Manhattan. Filmed on the occasion of his 90th birthday. This is the rough edit, version 01.

      • Release date
        Jun 19, 2011
      • Runtime
        21:14
    • Play Mokai 'Holy Guacamole' at FARwest 2009 - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Mokai 'Holy Guacamole' at FARwest 2009

      Fingerstyle guitarist Mokai performs his instrumental piece 'HolyGuacamole'. Driving rhythm, deft riff based fingerpicking, bluesy chops.One of a series of clips of advanced fingerstyle guitarists from the half-hour video Fingerstyle at FARwest 2009 - http://blip.tv/file/3088509 - filmed at the annual Folk Alliance Region West (FAR-West) conference in 2009 by guitarist Mokai. - www.mokaiMusic.com - Folk Blues Guitar Obsession Blog: www.mokaiMusic.com/guitar

      • Release date
        Feb 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:56
    • Play Fingerstyle at FAR-West 09 - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Fingerstyle at FAR-West 09

      Six master Fingerstyle Guitarists display their fingerpicking prowess, in this episode filmed at the 2009 FAR-West (Folk Alliance Region West) conference in Irvine, CA. West African inspired guitar from Walter Strauss on his composition "Ishi", expert fingerpicking and vocals from Shaun Cromwell ("The Rise and the Fall of It All"), Garrin Benfield ("Unbound"), and Ernest Troost ("By and By"), with instrumental pieces from David Siegler ("Walking the Round"), Bruce Victor ("For Michael Hedges")...

      • Release date
        Jan 14, 2010
      • Runtime
        28:42
    • Play It Ain't What You Is, It's What You Ain't - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      It Ain't What You Is, It's What You Ain't

      Mokai's fancy fingerpicking accompanies this tale of people who are more than what they seem–and not what they're not. This is one pass of a live performance. Sparks fly!

      • Release date
        Nov 2, 2009
      • Runtime
        04:14
    • Play Out to the Woods - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Out to the Woods

      Mokai's fingerstyle guitar becomes the flowing forest creek he played beside as a child.

      • Release date
        Nov 2, 2009
      • Runtime
        05:20
    • Play Mokai -- Unearthed, The Documentary - Mokai on Blip Mokai episodes on Blip

      Mokai -- Unearthed, The Documentary

      Filmed during the creation of Mokai's debut CD, this short video chronicles the process, includes a brief interview, gives a little background on the artist and shows Mokai live in the studio and performing in SF, CA. Dir. Nick Kasimatis © Punch Presents

      • Release date
        May 25, 2009
      • Runtime
        04:20
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