sentences:  They first came to notoriety when they performed on the Aerial Railway stage at the 1978 Nambassa three-day festival, becoming a huge hit.They called themselves "Mahana" in honour of a friend who loaned them his equipment to perform the 1978 festival.Within 24 hours and by popular acclaim they were headlining on the Nambassa main stage with a 20,000W PA in front of tens of thousands of people.