August 06, 2019:
Words and Wine Author Event. Words and Wine Author evening happens August 6, 2019 at 6PM at Kona Stories book store in the Keauhou Shopping Center. The public is welcome to attend this free author event and enjoy their stories and complimentary wine and pupu. Authors will speak for 20 minutes about their book followed by Q&A. August’s featured authors are: Amy Patterson, Angela Leslee and Donna Beumler. This event starts at 6 PM with an informal meet and greet merging into a more formal book presentation from each author and concluding around 8 PM after a Q&A session. Dress is casual aloha wear. Kona Stories is located in the Keauhou Shopping Center, for more information call Brenda or Joy at 808-324-0350.

August 06, 2019 – August 27, 2019:
Traditional Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar & Ukulele. Award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar & ukulele concert featuring songs & stories telling its history.   Gift Drawing.  Family Friendly.  Tickets $25 ($20  Ages 13-19 & 50+;  $10 Ages 6-12).  Audience rating 20+ yrs is 99.3% “Excellent, Highlight of our trip!”.This concert will ‘Tune your world to Aloha’!  Award winning concert artists Doug & Sandy McMaster have 11 CDs to perpetuate the knowledge and experience of the endangered artform of traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele.  Guided by the kupuna (elders), they have dedicated their lives to continuing the family tradition of slack key music. #1 BEST LIVE SHOW – 2019 Hawaii Magazine Readers’ Choice.2018 TripAdvisor Certificate of ExcellenceAudience Comments”Awesome music & talent!” – Kathy”Soothing to the soul and spirit.” – David & Dianne”To really feel Hawaii, you must hear slack key. It embodies Aloha!” – Bill”Great intimate setting… like being in the artists living room with friends.” – Sally”Touched my heart and filled me with Aloha.” – John The Princeville community center is easy to find at 4334 Emmalani Drive in Princeville, Kauai.  Turning into Princeville community, take the roundabout around and turn right on Emmalani Drive.  The center is the first on your right and is located  right next to Prince Albert Park.  The concert is held in the Aloha Room.Tickets and information at www.McMasterSlackKey.comor call (808) 826-1469Accessible and Family Friendly Facility: This facility is accessible to all ages and abilities and is family friendly with nice grassy area, playground, and park for parents to take restless children during the concert and intermission. Birds in the trees around the center contribute to sweet slack key serenade and tradewinds flow through the windows and doors around the center.

August 06, 2019 – August 27, 2019:
Free Kuhio Beach Hula Show featuring Ainsley Halemanu And Hula Halau Ka Liko O Ka Palai. This authentic Hawaiian hula show opens with torch lighting and traditional blowing of the conch shell. At the Kuhio Beach Hula Mound, diagonally across Kalakaua Ave. from Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach hotel at Uluniu Ave. FREE, outdoors, casual, seating on the grass; beach chairs, mats, etc. allowed. Cameras welcome. Attended by kamaaina (local residents) and malihini (visitors) alike. Presented by Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort & Spa, Hawaii Tourism Authority, City & County of Honolulu and Waikiki Improvement Association.
Every Tuesday of April, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Schedule is subject to change without notice. For more info call 808-843-8002.

August 06, 2019:
Willie K. Willie K will be performing at Blue Note Hawaii with 2 shows nightly at 6:30pm & 9:00pm. The Hawaiian phenomenon Willie K is undoubtedly the only artist in the world who can go into an Irish pub in the middle of Maui and play anything from indigenous acoustic Hawaiian music to jazz, reggae, rock, country and even opera—and not only get away with it but leave everyone within earshot slack-jawed in astonishment. Doors open at 5:00pm and 8:30pm respectively. Seating first come first served, no reserved seating. $10 minimum food or beverage purchase required per guest, not included in ticket price. Call our box office (808)777-4890 for inquiries.

August 04, 2019 – August 25, 2019:
The Farmers’ Market at Hamakua Harvest. The Sunday Farmers’ Market at Hamakua Harvest, located at the intersection of Mamane St. and Hwy 19 in Historic Honokaa Town, offers only locally produced goods, ono food, live music and a free educational event weekly. It’s beautiful location and celebratory character provides a vibrant social gathering place for the whole family. SNAP/EBT welcome! Drink a coconut, buy a t-shirt and experience the warm hospitality of Hamakua. Every Sunday from 9:00am to 2:00pm Email info@hamakuaharvest.org for more information

August 04, 2019:
Ike Hana II. The second of two finale concerts featuring a different program from our resident guest artists: ASK Dance Company (Malaysia), Dancers of Damelahamid (British Columbia), and Halau Hula Ka Noeau (Honolulu).
ASK Dance Company A professional, award-winning dance collective from Malaysia built upon the philosophy “that to be alive, one must continuously learn, and thus be unafraid to ASK pertinent questions.” Incorporating traditional and contemporary genres of dance, ASK features outstanding dancers and choreographers and strives to play a significant role in bridging innumerable boundaries and breaking glass ceilings nationally and internationally.
Dancers of Damelahamid an Indigenous dance company from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia celebrating the diversity and depth of the many beautiful Indigenous cultures across Canada. Through dramatic dance, captivating narrative, intricately carved masks, and elaborate regalia the Dancers of Damelahamid transform time and space, bridging the ancient with a living tradition.
Halau Hula Ka Noeau Halau Hula Ka Noeau, under the direction of Kumu Hula Michael Pili Pang, is an award-winning halau hula built on the philosophy that “the ‘Art of Hula’ expresses all we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and feel.” Dedicated to performing traditional hula styles, particularly a style called hula kui, Hālau Hula Ka Noeau has been a driving force in promoting hula at an academic and artistic level with educational lectures, hula production, and performances in Hawaii and throughout North America and Asia.

August 04, 2019:
Na Pali Challenge. Each year paddlers from the Hawaiian Islands and abroad gather on Kaua’i for this unique race. It is an opportunity for wahine and kane to come together and race down the enchanting Na Pali Coast. Each team consists of 6 wahine and 6 kane. The two teams take turns in the canoe, making water changes every 30 minutes. The race begins at Hanalei Bay and will end outside Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor. The course is 36 miles long and runs along some of the most beautiful coastline in the world. http://www.koapaddler.org/

August 04, 2019 – August 25, 2019:
Traditional Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar & Ukulele. Award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar & ukulele concertfeaturing songs & stories telling its history.   Gift Drawing.  Family Friendly.  Tickets $25 ($20  Ages 13-19 & 50+;  $10 Ages 6-12).  Audience rating 20+ yrs is 99.3% “Excellent, Highlight of our trip!”.
This concert will ‘Tune your world to Aloha’!  Award winning concert artists Doug & Sandy McMaster have 11 CDs to perpetuate the knowledge and experience of the endangered artform of traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele.  Guided by the kupuna (elders), they have dedicated their lives to continuing the family tradition of slack key music.
#1 BEST LIVE SHOW – 2019 Hawaii Magazine Readers’ Choice.2018 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
Audience Comments”Awesome music & talent!” – Kathy”Soothing to the soul and spirit.” – David & Dianne”To really feel Hawaii, you must hear slack key. It embodies Aloha!” – Bill”Great intimate setting… like being in the artists living room with friends.” – Sally”Touched my heart and filled me with Aloha.” – John
The Hanalei community center is easy to find.  In Hanalei, a block past the shopping center, turn towards the mountains at Malolo Rd.  A small Hanalei Community Center sign is on the edge of Waioli Park soccer fields.  Go 20 yards, turn left into the gravel parking area.  The concert is in the brown building – Pohai Aloha (Circle of Aloha).
Tickets and information at www.McMasterSlackKey.com or call (808) 826-1469
Accessible and Family Friendly Facility: Set off the main road, This facility is accessible to all ages and abilities and is family friendly with nice grassy area and lanai for parents to take restless children during the concert and intermission. Endangered birds such as the Hawaiian stilt, Hawaiian coot, Hawaiian duck, Kolea (golden plover), and nene (Hawaiian goose), Pueo (Hawaiian owl) make their homes here.

August 03, 2019:
Not Your Typical Garden Party. Join us for a lovely evening of wine, pupus and live music for a good cause at Not Your Typical Garden Party Saturday, August 3rd!
***All proceeds go towards refurbishing the Hawaiian Botanical Garden at Anaina Hou Community Park.
Wear your finest garden party attire! Prizes will be awarded for Best Ladies Garden Party Hat and Best Mens Aloha Shirt.
Delicious pupus (appetizers) from some of Kauai’s finest, including Kauai Shrimp, Palate Wine Bar, Eat Healthy Cafe, Shivalik Indian Cuisine, Tiki Iniki, April’s Aloha Cakes, Tropic Fish Kauai, and Kalypso Island Bar & Grill. Silent Auction prizes include trips, resort stays and much more.
Price: $100 per person. Get Tickets at: www.anainahou.org/gardenparty

August 03, 2019 – August 04, 2019:
Heiva I Kauai 2019. This is a 2 day dance, drumming and music competition and exhibition which showcases Tahitian and Polynesian cultures. Competitors enter solo and group dance categories and win prizes for excellence. Vendors sell crafts, gifts and food. Cultural practices of lauhala and coconut weaving, Polynesian carving and fireknife dancing, shell craft, and lomilomi massage are demonstrated. The event provides a venue for the next generation of Polynesian entertainers to gain performance experience. The event helps preserve and perpetuate Tahitian language, history, ledgends, music drumming and dancing. Audience participation is encouraged in coconut husking and Tahitian dace contests.