Salamumu was visited by Miss Samoa Susana Reti Fanueli where she performed with the village’s youth group at the Sa’Moana Resort.
Daniel Mendola, the C.E.O. of Clearwater Sports Resort Ltd who own Sa’Moana, said the event was organised to promote the resort, the village of Salamumu and its youth group.
“The president of the Salamumu Tai Youth Laauli Avau organised this with Samoa Tourism Authority (S.T.A.),” he said.
“So a big thank you for his efforts.”
“I would also like to thank Miss Samoa and S.T.A.’s C.E.O. Papali’i Sonja Hunter for this opportunity.”
“This is the first time Miss Samoa has performed a fia fia in a rural village in Samoa at a private resort.”
“I really believe this is a big step for tourism and if we can continue and promote these on island events which Sa’Moana Resort will support, it will only help to reinforce destination awareness.”
He said Miss Samoa mingled with the 31 guests before she took to the stage to perform the evening’s final dance at the end of the show.
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“The crowd was amazed,” Mr Mendola said.
“Because it was Miss Samoa and she danced really well.”
“The crowd was fairly speechless and her outfit was pretty amazing.”
Mr Mendola said Sa’moana Resort does its best to promote Samoa as a destination and provides support for the village of Salamumu.
“Our fia fia night is our way to provide Salamumu with the opportunity to show their beautiful culture to visitors through song and dance,” he said.
“It is held every Thursday night to provide our guests and all on-island tourists the opportunity to experience Samoan culture at its core roots.”
“Our fia fia show is the finale of a culture day which starts at 11:30am each Thursday.”
He said the Sa’moana Resort culture day is packed with activities including climbing of coconut trees and coconut husking, producing coconut cream the traditional Samoan way, basket weaving, story telling, canoe carving, setting up of the traditional umu, cooking of the umu, making palusami the traditional way, traditional ava ceremony where they crush the root of the ava tree and fia fia and fire knife dancing.
The Sa’moana Resort Fia Fia night happens every Thursday and costs ST$100 per person including full entertainment and dinner. Kids under 11 are ST$50.
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