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Week of Friday, January 25, 2019 | Vol. 7, No. 4

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HIGH-FLYING RECITAL Kauai Dance Center presents its 21st annual New Year’s concert

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LAURIE LEWIS, TOM ROZUM CONCERT 7:30 p.m. Church of the Pacific, Princeville Grammy-winning, original acoustic roots music. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Info: brownpapertickets.com WAIPA DISASTER WORKSHOP 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Hale Halawai Ohana o Hanalei Learn about the impacts of the 2018 flooding, hear an update to the Hanalei to Haena Disaster Resilience Plan, and help proritize needed trainings and next steps. Info: 826-1985 or at hanaleiwatershedhui@gmail.com.

KAUAI VOICES CONCERT “BROADWAY, BABY!” 7:30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Lihue Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $30 VIP early seating. Info: www.kauaivoices.org, 800-838-3006 SATURDAY

KAUAI VOICES CONCERT “BROADWAY, BABY!” 7:30 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Lihue Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $30 VIP early seating. www.kauaivoices.org, 800-838-3006 SIERRA CLUB HIKE Kokee State Park Strenuous seven miles. Spectacular hike through forests of Kokee, Black Pipe Trail, Canyon Trail, Po‘omau Canyon Lookout.

Cross over Waipo‘o Falls for a view of Waimea Canyon to the ocean. Info: Ken Fasig, 346-1229 LIONS EYEGLASS COLLECTION 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Longs Lihue and Walmart, Big Save stores in Kapaa and Eleele, Sueoka Store in Koloa Info: Belma Baris, 651-2701, 245-9147 FIRST AID TRAINING 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Koloa Neighborhood Center Learn American Red Cross first aid (9 to 11 a.m.), and CPR and AED (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.). Info: hearts4kauai@gmail.com, 6521284

KAUAI DANCE CENTER ANNUAL RECITAL 1 p.m. Kauai Dance Center Theater in Nawiliwili Children’s recital showcase starts at 1 p.m. Youth ensemble performance starts at 4 p.m. Advanced tickets $8 adult, $3 children. Children under 2 are free. Info: 823-9588 KEIKI DAY IN THE GARDEN 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens, Kilauea $10 per person, reservations recommended. Info: 828-0525 SUNDAY

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KAUAI VOICES CONCERT “BROADWAY, BABY!” 3 p.m. St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Lihue Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $30 VIP early seating. www.kauaivoices.org, 838-3006 SIERRA CLUB HIKE Moalepe Trail to Kuilau Ridge picnic area, Eastside Moderate 5.5 miles. A beautiful hike through a forest, with glorious views and ever-present bird songs. This trail offers great rewards without a lot of effort. Info: Julio Magalhaes, 650-906-2594

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ABOVE: Kauai Dance Center student Jaycee Pang perfors a blue bird variation from “Sleeping Beauty,” to music by Tchaikovsky.

ON THE COVER: Malia Eubeng performs a classical variation from “Paquita,” with music by Minkus.

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ISLAND GROWN ARTISAN FAIR 1 to 6 p.m. Princeville Community Center MONDAY

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auai Dance Center is hosting its 21st annual New Year’s Dance Recital Showcase on Saturday, and it’ll be an afternoon of dance styles including lyrical, contemporary, hip-hop and ballet.

The theme is “Glittering.”

“Kauai Dance Center’s annual Recital showcases KDC students of all ages and levels of dance. Come enjoy ballet demonstrations by our youngest dancers ages 3 to 5,” said Jennifer Bell-Grey, owner and instructor at KDC. “In addition to demonstrations, dancers 6 years and older will be performing SEE ‘GLITTERING,’ PAGE 3

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choreography and traditional classical repertoire from Swan Lake, Paquita, Giselle and the Sleeping Beauty.”

The Youth Ensemble students will be showcasing contemporary, lyrical, hip hop and Spanish dance.

The event kicks off with the Children’s Performance from 1 to 2 p.m., showcasing the younger students ages 3 to 9.

After a short break, the Youth Ensemble Performance, with students ages 10 to teens, will begin at 4 p.m.

Kauai Dance Center’s annual recital will be at the Kau-

ai Dance Center/Eyes Wide Open Productions Theater, next to Hesse Flooring and across from Nawiliwili Park at 3285 Waapa Road, Nawiliwili.

General ticket cost is $10 at the door, $8 in advanced.

Admission is per show and seating is limited. Child tickets are $5, $3 in advance and child age is considered 17 and under. Children un-

HER WINDOW TO THE WORLD Laurie Lewis, Tom Rozum return to Kauai for single show tonight TGIFR!DAY

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aurie Lewis, Grammy Award-winning musician, and Tom Rozum, will appear in concert at Princeville Church of the Pacific at 7:30 tonight.

It promises to be an an evening of fine acoustic bluegrass, Americana, indie, folk and swing.

The musical duo has performed on Kauai almost every year for the last 15 years.

“One of the things that actually resonates with a lot of people in the islands is a lot of my music is tied to the natural world,” Lewis told TGI in a previous interview.

“That’s a major focus in my music, and it seems to be a major focus in a lot of people’s lives who live on Kauai.”

Performing since 1974 and nominated for the best bluegrass recording Grammy in 2017, the musician from California is also an educator, teaching at camps, festivals and workshops in the U.S.

and Canada.

She contributed fiddle and vocals on “True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe,” that won a Grammy in 1997 for best bluegrass album.

“I hope that it (bluegrass) always retains a feeling of community about it, a feeling of give and take within the music, and also I hope it stays as sort of a vehicle to sing songs that really speak to ordinary people’s lives,” Lewis said.

A pioneering woman in bluegrass and Americana, Laurie has paved the way for many young women today, always guided by her own love of traditional music and the styles of her heroes that came before. She is a prolific songwriter and has recorded over 20 albums of her music.

At the same time, she has steadfastly followed her personal muse and remained open to new influences.

Lewis has appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and several times with Garrison Keillor on his radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion.” She was the program director for a music camp on the Oregon coast called Bluegrass at the Beach, which she has done

with Rozum, from 1992 until 2005. She was director of Bluegrass Week at the Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops for 10 years, from 1986 until 1996.

Lewis’s songs have been recorded by others, including Kathy Mattea, and she has accompanied Holly Near. She has been invited to accompany many other artists, including Kato Sanden, Linda Ronstadt and Ralph Stanley. Besides producing her own CDs, Lewis’s skill in the recording studio have resulted in her being asked to produce recordings for a number of other artists, including Scott Nygaard, Erica Wheeler, The T Sisters, Alice Gerrard, American Nomad, Melody Walker and Jacob Groopman, Ray Bierl and Diedre McCalla. She is also in demand as a teacher of fiddle and guitar, vocals and songwriting.

Ronstadt speaks for many when she says of Laurie: “Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.”

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der 2 years old and sharing an adult seat receive free admission.

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truest sense of the word, in that she uses bluegrass instruments to create new original music: it’s music for now,” wrote Sam Bush, founder of the New Grass Revival.

“As a fiddler, she could be from the 1940s or from 2010.

It’s timeless. As a singer, she knows the rules of bluegrass and how to sing in her own voice. She’s probably one of the few female singers who really knows the nuances of the Ralph Stanley vocal style,” said Bush.

Lewis has toured widely in many parts of the world, including most European countries, China and Japan.

When not on tour, she makes her home in Berkeley, California.

She considers herself lucky to slowly have grown an audience over decades

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Grammy-nominated musician and singer Laurie Lewis, left, teams with longtime partner Tom Rozum, right, for a single bluegrass concert tonight at Church of the Pacific at Princeville.

of playing. Since 1986, Lewis has recorded nearly 20 albums with her musical partner, Rozum.

“Tom Rozum’s a wonderful singer and mandolinist who has drawn a lot of inspiration from music outside of the bluegrass genre,”

Lewis said. “His instrumental interpretations open up our music in a lot of different ways.”

“We try not to just fit in the bluegrass box.”

“As soon as I heard bluegrass as a teenager, it just really spoke to me,” Lewis

said. “It just resonated within me somehow, and I had to follow.”

The internationally renowned singer, songwriter, fiddler, band leader, producer and educator has twice been voted female vocalist of the year by the In-

ternational Bluegrass Music Association.

“My music voice is unique to me because it’s my window on the world,” Lewis said.

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JOE JACKSON PORTRAYS COMEDY, TRAGEDY ON GRAND ‘FOOL’ PABLO GORONDI ASSOCIATED PRESS

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oe Jackson and his band went straight from the stage to the studio to record “Fool,” and his 20th studio album displays plenty of the dynamics and energy usually found in live performances.

Released nearly 40 years to the day after “Look Sharp!” — his landmark 1979 debut — the songs on “Fool” are full of momentum, musings on the grinds and pleasures of modern living, and sounds that echo different stages of Jackson’s long career, a master class in never settling in one style for too long.

While Jackson says he’s unsure about the strength of the vinyl revival, he nonetheless envisioned the 43-minute collection as “two complementary sides,” comedy and tragedy.

Luckily, it sounds just fine on CD and download, too.

Opener “Big Black Cloud” rumbles storm-like as every component of the keyboards-guitar-bass-drum quartet gets its own space and Jackson paints a dire picture of middle-class existence.

“Fabulously Absolute” has plenty of verve, keyboard sounds that could be from both the late Keith Emerson or Weezer and the perspective of a “deplorable” who can’t help having a

rough time fitting in.

“Friend Better” rounds out the phrase beginning with “lover good,” with another unmistakable Jackson piano part harkening back to 1982’s “Night and Day,” one of his most successful releases.

“32 Kisses” is about a couple that grows “from kids to man and wife,” though apparently without a fairytale ending, while “Alchemy,” a classy ballad, invokes the wonder and mystery magicians can conjure out thin air.

Then there’s longtime Jackson associate Graham Maby’s serpentine bass solo on the title track.

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n a somewhat out-of-character move, Kauai Concert Association will host its first drag performer on Tuesday, February 19, at the Kauai Community College

Kauai Concert Association presents La Voix from Britain in February

Performing Arts Center.

“This is a surprising direction for us,” said Jason Blake, president of KCA. “KCA traditionally presents classical and jazz music. My husband Philip and I saw La Voix headline on a cruise last year. She sings live

‘JAZZ SINGER NIGHT 2’ IS COMING TGIFR!DAY

jazz artist,” said Melissa Mojo, singer and founder of Kauai Island Singers Showcase. n Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 “We are looking forward to p.m., New Orleans working with Matt over a Jazz Professor Matt three-day period and sharing Lemmler will feature “Kauai Island Singers Showcase Jazz our love of jazz with the community.”

Singer Night 2,” featuring six The concert will also Kauai-based singer/students — Barbara Pendragon, Melis- feature three special guests: Award-winning Northwest sa Mojo, Christine Melamed, Dhyana Dunville, Diana Leone vocal jazz icon Greta Matassa, Seattle-based virtuoso jazz and Mary Ellen Kopitzke — singing jazz classics from the bassist Clipper Anderson and Kauai’s own talented singer/ great American songbook. musician Alan Van Zee, musi“This marks the second year in a row that KISS singers cal director of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church have presented a jazz showBoth Matt and Greta are case as students of a visiting

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participating in the St. Michael’s All Angels Jazz Festival on February 2 and 3. They have visited Kauai regularly over the past 12 years — playing and singing in the festival and leading vocal workshops for island students.

Lemmler is considered to be one of the most original musicians to recently emerge from the birthplace of jazz.

Known as one of the New Orleans Jazz Professors, Lemmler is a pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger, educator, producer and musical director for The New Orleans Jazz Revival Band.

A prolific performer who continues the legacy of great New Orleans pianists, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Domino, James Booker, Dr. John, Ellis Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr., Matt’s musical path of

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‘BEHOLD,’ A TRULY OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF POEMS BILL BULEY TGIFR!DAY

the South Shore with stops at the East Side and the Wailua River to the North Shore and its world of deep greens and ur readers are familiar heavy rains. with Dawn Fraser As Kawahara explains, Kawahara through “some poems center upon her very popular “Green Flash,” the sacred and sublime; othcolumn that generally pubers vibrate with human conlishes every other Monday in cerns such as life and death, The Garden Island. Dawn is love and loss. The collection a fine writer, as evidenced in extolls the light and dark sides her work. She is also a worldly of the island’s personality to traveler, who has shared her keep ‘paradise’ realistic. “Bemany adventures with us. hold Kaua‘i — Ancient Ways” And besides being one of the melds ancient knowledge kindest people you will ever call this place home should and lore with modern occurmeet, she is a gifted poet. Her know. rence and insight.” book, “Behold Kaua‘i: Modern This 2005 book is a collecThis is one of the books Days — Ancient Ways,” is a tion of poems and is a treat. you don’t read once and give must read for anyone who It contains some of her best it away. You keep it around. loves this island. Her poems work and takes readers into You go back to it every so ofof Kauai are not just easy places they likely otherwise on the eyes and ears, but will never go, gives you a view ten and learn something new.

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conservative board of directors. What was great was how it was unanimously and enthusiastically embraced!”

“La Voix” is a British singer and comedian. For more than a decade, La Voix has toured continuously and headlined on many cruise ships. Her stage show includes live singing, incredible musicians led by her musical director Brian Nash of New York, PG-13 humor and fabulous gowns.

“Love the attitude! I like you,” said the notoriously curmudgeonly Simon Cowell in the semifinals of Britain’s

Got Talent. Cowell is the producer of American Idol, America’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got Talent and more.

Blake continued, “Kauai has embraced drag in a fun way. In October of 2017, there was Drag Spooktacular at Koloa Landing, which featured Honolulu drag queens lip syncing and dancing— more than 300 people attended. There’s a monthly drag show at the Anahola Marketplace that is always at capacity. DMD Productions hosted a drag pageant in October of 2018 at Kauai Beach Resort, which featured local Kauai drag queens— close to 300 showed up for that, too. We’re excited to see what happens when we bring someone who’s been

doing this professionally for more than a decade to spice up the entertainment scene on Kauai. We’re hoping to sell out the event!”

La Voix will perform on Kauai for one night only Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. at the KCC Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

Due to some bawdy, event is considered PG-13.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.kauai-concert.org or by calling 808245-SING (7464). There’s a limited availability reception after the show for $20 per person. Advance purchase is recommended for both the show and the reception as both are more than half sold-out.

you just want to reflect a bit on life and Kauai. Kawahara writes in such a way it puts you both at ease and wanting to know more about these places, these events, these people, of which she writes.

Consider these words from “Forest Feast.”

“A mile later we rest on a long, wash damp grahams down with water and stare into the dense shade of cedars.”

Then, there is “Skeptics.”

“High waves launch a steady assault against the black and jagged cliff that marks the end of the beach.

Cloud veils sift, the sun bounces once, rays stabbing the line of cool blue at the western edge, settles slims to a narrow disk, think and thinner still — a fiery slice slip-

ping, slipped below horizon, transformed, becomes and emerald prism.”

“Dawn Chant (After Falling in Love Again)” is one of my favorites: “Light breathes life into the dark valley warming the stream vining the trees with green — plum and mango, monkeypod, hau — The Breadfruit draws deeply, lifts arms to the sky. Rain comes, a blessing. The red road muddies and the ripe earth streams.”

I love those words, “The Breadfruit draws deeply, lifts arms to the sky.”

The book also includes a list of place names aimed to help readers “gain a sense of rightness.” Kawahara outlined that Kealia is ‘The Salt Beds’ beach area north of Kapaa

Town,” that Lumahai is “A long sand beach with steep and dangerous drop-off on Kauai’s North Shore, a certain twist of the finger in formed string beans,” and Niumalu is “A valley area inland of Nawailiwili Harbor; shaded by coconut palms (Cocos nucifera).

I happened to have a signed copy of the book. If you want to borrow it, I’d be glad to let you.

One piece of advice about poems. Read them outloud. It helps with the impact of the words. And as Kawahara will tell you, the impact of each word matters. In Behold Kauai, it’s easy to see they do.

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A misdemeanor attempted assault charge was dropped. ays after appearing Prosecutors offered the compromise as President Donald after reviewing video of the incident, lookTrump in a “Deal or ing at medical records and talking with No Deal” parody on “Saturthe victim and witnesses, Assistant District day Night Live,” Alec Baldwin Attorney Ryan Lipes said. The 60-year-old took a deal of his own Baldwin, who’s had various scrapes with Wednesday, agreeing to at- Baldwin tend an anger management the law over the years, has a clean criminal class to resolve a criminal case stemming record, Lipes said. from a skirmish over a parking spot.

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ore than 250 keiki between the ages of 6 and 9 were on the field during the Seventh annual Kalawai Youth Baseball Club’s Martin Luther King goodwill baseball tournament at Kalawai Park in Kalaheo.

Michael Linnell, president of the Kalawai Youth Baseball Club, said the tournament is a goodwill tournament, which means there are no winners among the field of 22 teams that included six teams (and their respective accompanying parents) from Oahu. Teams participating, including those from the different baseball programs like Little League, Cal Ripkin and Protect Our Nation’s Youth, got to play a minimum of five games over the three-day tournament.

Fundraising prize drawings, a homerun derby, tournament memorabilia, and good food like the Sunday special pasteles dioja, helped benefit the Kalawai Youth Baseball Club.

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