“Classic Rock” is the theme of this year’s 22nd annual Ukulele Festival at Hawaii Preparatory Academy. The event begins at 7 p.m. Saturday. The performance, which is free and open to the public, will be held at Gates Performing Arts Center, located at HPA’s upper campus in Waimea.
More than 120 students from Hawaii Preparatory Academy and Kealakehe Intermediate and Waikoloa schools will perform under the direction of Dagan Bernstein, Barbara Kopra and Georgia Polakova from HPA; Gloria Juan from Kealakehe and Lani Opunui from Waikoloa.
The festival will feature arrangements of “classic rock” songs and dances from the 1960s, ’70s and ‘80s. In celebrating the timeless quality of this music, students will be performing arrangements of some classic favorites from Led Zeppelin, Queen, Santana, Aerosmith, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Eagles, Steppenwolf, Journey, Cream, Van Halen, Joan Jett and Black Sabbath.
Past themes have included “One World, One Love, One Uke,”“The Magic of Motown,” “The Wonderful World of Disney,” “The Beatles, Lights! Camera! Action!” and “Iz: The Man and His Music,” among others.
For more information, call 885-2501 or 885-2500, or visit hpa.edu.