This post is dedicated to the service and healing

Anthony provided through his music to others.

I remember the first time I met Anthony.

I went to listen to a "jam session", which is what you call an eclectic gathering of musicians.

It is never rehearsed, just a sharing of music and talent.

Anthony came in a bit later and walked in with a sweet, aloha presence about him.

He then walked around the room and gave a aloha hug and kiss to everyone,

stranger or friend, he loved them all.

As he spoke and played, I knew I was witnessing someone who was at one with his instrument and nature.

He had a very calming presence to him, and a unique talent which he called a "gift".

It was a beautiful night.

(Anthony, Abyssinia, Kathleen)

We had him over to our home several times.

What a blessed memory and experience.

As he played his music he said notes to play and instructions would come to him.

If he felt to give a certain note to someone, he would play a song for just you.

Music therapy at it's best!

You could feel the notes at such a deep level inside of you.

It would bring balance and healing.

He would just play and had a wonderful time sharing his talent where ever he went.

Leticia and Samson after a Ulalena show with Anthony.

Anthony, thank you for sharing with us. Your service and example of the true Aloha Spirit and love for everyone is unforgettable. You will be missed!

Here are some excerpts from an article commemorating his life. (in italics)

Nose flute maker, player hailed for unique talents

November 5, 2012

Like the nose flutes he made and created, Anthony Natividad was one of a kind.

In tributes to the man who may have been the premier nose flute performer in Hawaii, family members, friends touched by his music and musicians who played with him described Natividad as a one-of-a-kind performer, instrument maker and human being.

The 48-year-old Natividad died suddenly Oct. 28, leaving those family members, friends, fellow musicians and performers and all others who have heard his calming and wafting refrains in mourning.

"There is nobody else alive that can play the nose flute and build 'em and play 'em," said Grammy and Na Hoku winning George Kahumoku Jr., who worked with Natividad at the University of Hawaii Maui College Institute of Hawaiian Music.

If a musician needed a nose flute in a certain key, Natividad could make that instrument.

"He could tune it for your guitar . . . whatever you want," Kahumoku said last week. "He was the only one that I know who could do that."

Natividad landed a job in the original cast of the show on the west side that has run for more than a decade. In addition to playing the nose flute, drums and ukulele in the pit above the stage, Natividad was the only musician to go on stage for the "Kumulipo" creation chant and for a rain sequence where he played his nose flute, said Preussler.

Natividad may be irreplaceable.

"Like anything in a show, you have something with an extreme talent and is unique (that) you cannot always re-create," said Preussler.

Jamie and Anthony Natividad knew each other since age 13, so she had a close-up seat to her husband's discovery and evolution of his calling in life.

"He is an innovator and a great problem-solver," she continued. "He would tweak things until it was pretty much perfect."

The Native Hawaiian ohe hano ihu is "an instrument of sincerity and purity, played with the 'ha,' or sacred breath of the nose," a biography about Anthony said. "It is an expression of the player's heart and intentions. . . .

When looking in the bamboo forest, he would offer a Hawaiian greeting and enter the forest. He would only select fallen bamboo.

"I think the instrument picked him,"said Kahumoku, who went on expeditions with the nose-flute builder to the forest. "He told me that. He was in the forest; the bamboo would pick him."

A few months agao, for the second year in a row, he played at the Sept. 11, 2001, remembrance at the Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas. He blew the conch shell and played "Amazing Grace" on his nose flute.

"It was amazing," said Makalapua Kanuha, the resort's cultural specialist, recalling how the crowd began to sing along.

"It was very enchanting, and he enchanted a lot of people," she said. "We are going to miss him."

"When he played the nose flute, he made me feel like he was part of the island, like he was part of the land," said Kahumoku. "He was connected to this earth."

"It was just something special about how he played," she said. "When Anthony would play it was so healing. It was all pretty but Anthony had a different quality to it. Everything he played was so magical.

I would say it was spiritual. He was not only connected to this earth and nature, but to heaven.

You and your music are loved and will be missed. Blessings and "Aloha"

The Turley Family