Shows &events
Holualoa celebrates First Friday, Cinco de Mayo
The shops and art galleries of historic Holualoa Village will celebrate local art and music and Cinco de Mayo this evening from 5:30 until 8:30 pm. More than a dozen studios and stores will stay open late to welcome friends and visitors with new art work, pupus and music.
Dr. Tim and the Medicine Band will perform on the Ipu Arts Plus lanai and Dave Lawrence will again be cranking up the crowd with classic rock ‘n’ roll at Koa Realty.
Emeralds, the birthstone for May, will be featured at the Kona Hotel gallery of Pat Pearlman designs.
Maestro Andrew Sweeney will sing and play piano outside the Holualoa Gallery while artist William Wingert works on a new painting inside.
Glyph Art Gallery will be in Cinco de Mayo mode all night, with south of the border pupus. Artist Faith Rockenstein will be showing her new work, and will be at the drawing board demonstrating the under appreciated beauty and depth of colored pencil as a medium. New work by Mary Carol, Lisa Bunge and Joan Blackshear will also be on display.
The Holualoa Ukulele Gallery will offer Cinco de Mayo refreshments and debut instruments and vintage sheet music, while the Mauka High Notes entertains on the front lanai of the old Holualoa post office.
Info: www.holualoahawaii.com.
Free Hawaiian concert at library
The Kailua-Kona Public Library hosts a live concert featuring Mele’uhane, father and son duo, Keikilani and Leokani Lindsey with traditional Hawaiian music for all ages from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
With a deep affection for the Hawaiian language, the duo lends a new spin to Hawaiian songwriting. Sponsored by Friends of the Libraries, Kona, this program is free to the public.
Info: 327-4327.
Chatham Baroque performs in Kona
Early Music Hawaii presents the Chatham Baroque ensemble at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity off Lako Street in Kailua-Kona.
Bringing rarely heard composers to Kona, this ensemble also excites local, national, and international audiences with dazzling technique and lively interpretations of 16th and 17th century music played on instruments of the period.
Founded in 1990, Chatham Baroque continues to thrive with a full calendar of concerts, tours, musical collaborations, and CD releases. The trio of baroque violin, viola da gamba, archlute and baroque guitar tours nationally and internationally, and has recorded 10 critically acclaimed CDs.
The performance marks Early Music Hawaii’s final concert for the 2016-17 season. Tickets are $25 and $10 for students with ID and are available at the door or online.
Info: www.earlymusichawaii.com.
Robert Cazimero returns to Kahilu Theatre May 13
Hawaii’s most revered and loved Kumu and singer, Robert Cazimero, returns to Kahilu Theatre on May 13 to carry on with an unbroken 32-year-old tradition — celebrating May Day in Waimea.
Cazimero has been a part of close to 40 full album projects; many considered classics in the history of Hawaiian music. The popular success of the music he has made and participated in has been recognized through dozens of awards, performances on the world’s most prestigious stages and the millions of albums that have been bought by people around the world.
He studied the art of hula for decades and has been an essential player in the evolution of modern Hawaiian music. His passion and talent have played a huge role in taking Hawaiian music and dance to stages all over the globe. Cazimero’s kane of Na Kamalei were overall winners at the 2015 Merrie Monarch Festival.
Doors open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. performance. Tickets range in price from $20 to $68 and can be purchased online at www.kahilutheatre.org, by calling 885-6868, or at the theater’s box office, 67-1186 Lindsey Road in Waimea, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays.
Info: www.kahilutheatre.org.
New releases
Kukahi releases second album
Seventeen-year-old Waimea singer-songwriter Kukahi releases his second album, “Human,” today.
Kukahi Lee worked with producer/engineer P.T. Houston for his second effort in the studio. He released his debut, self-titled album in August 2016.
“P.T. Houston is great to work with,” he said. “He did an excellent job with staying true to our artistic vision, and adding his own cool, unique flair to it as well. He was also very helpful because he would give us feedback and constructive criticism on our recording technique.”
Kukahi’s manager, Shane Lee of Makalii Productions, said the album has a lot of inspiring messages and every song shares a stroy.
“Kukahi has a God given voice and gets his audience worked up and alive during live performances,” he said.
Info: www.brandspankingku.com
Announcements
KVA featured artist for May is Marilyn Koschella
Oil and watercolor painter Marilyn Koschella is the Kailua Village Artists featured artist for the month of May.
Koschella will be displaying her watercolor series of Old Homes that are enhanced with pen and ink. After completing a watercolor painting, ink is used to highlight special areas of the painting. The exhibit will also include a new collection of mini turtle prints, with easels. In order to meet the needs of tourist she will also have her mini palm tree original oil paintings. Her specialty is “suitcase-size” paintings.
Come to the gallery and “talk story” with Koschella on Thursday and May 24 and 25. The gallery, located at the Kona Marketplace, 75-5729 Alii Drive, in Kailua-Kona, is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily.
Info: 329-6653.
Call for entry
Wailoa Center seeks artists for 2018 ‘10x10x10 Artist Challenge’
Wailoa Center invites Big Island artists to submit portfolios for consideration for its second annual “10x10x10 Artist Challenge,” scheduled for May 2018.
Ten artists will be chosen for the “Challenge” and will have roughly one year to develop their ideas and create an installation of art to be displayed in one of 10 sectioned-off spaces upstairs in the Main Gallery of Wailoa Center. Once an artist is chosen and commits to the process, the 10 mandated materials will be revealed to the artists and they may only use those materials to create their installation.
The 2016 “10x10x10 Artists Challenge” included artists from across Hawaii Island and was deemed a success for the public to view and for the artists to create. Participating 2016 artists were exhibit co-founders Codie King and Kaori Ukaji, and Michael Cromwell, Bob Douglas, Joe Hampton, Ben Krome, Stephen Lang, Jim Rhodes, Joe Ruesing and Trudee Siemann. The 10 mandated materials used in 2016 were wooden pallets, toilet paper, wire mesh, plastic wrap, canvas, paint, plaster of Paris, a light source and any type of fasteners needed for construction, as well as, an ‘artist’s choice’ of one additional type of material.
Interested artists should contact Codie King at Wailoa Center 933-0416 or email wailoa@yahoo.com. Portfolios can be dropped off at Wailoa Center or submitted via email to wailoa@yahoo.com. The deadline for portfolio submissions is May 18. The 10 artists will be notified shortly after review and be asked to come in and sign a contract of commitment to exhibit.
Info: 933-0416, www.wailoacenter.org.
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Exhibit commemorates Mental Health Awareness Month
Self Discovery Through Art will be having its second exhibit commemorating Mental Health Awareness Month today through May 25 at Wailoa Center in Hilo.
The show is a psycho-educational and visually expressive exhibition showing how we all share the capacity to overcome life’s challenges when we build resilience. The show is called “Recovery, Resilience and ReCreation” of life worth living. It is an educational exhibit celebrating community mental wellness.
A reception is slated from 5 to 7 p.m. on May 5 at Wailoa Center. There will be entertainment by the band Alternative Medicine and light refreshments will be served.
Self Discovery through Art has collaborated with many members of the community and artists, as well. Selected artists were challenged to wrap their art perspective around the ideas of “Compassion, Connection, and Contribution.
These are all “Resilience” factors necessary to overcome trauma. They suggest “Art used as Medicine” so to speak. The artists include Ken Charon, Rebecca Rosen Charon, Ingrid Fregeau, Ed Goldstein, Elizabeth Miller, Ira Ono and Linda Rowell Stevens.
Wailoa Center is free and open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays. It is closed on weekends and holidays.
Info: 933-0416, email wailoa@yahoo.com, visit www.wailoacenter.com
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