Brother Noland is an American musician and author, known chiefly as a performer of Hawaiian music and slack-key guitar.
[1] Noland is known as the "Father of Jawaiian music",[1] and one of his best-known songs in this idiom is "Coconut Girl", which appeared on the soundtrack to the film Pineapple Express.
[1] Other songs which received airplay in Hawaii include "Pua Lane", "Are You Native?
205 that recognized Brother Noland for a lifetime achievements and his impact on island music.
[8] He runs a series of nature and subsistence-advocacy camps, principally on Molokai, and in 2013 published The Hawaiian Survival Handbook, a guide to living off the land in Hawaiʻi.