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IN THIS ISSUE: 2. OUT & ABOUT:

Top picks for the week

OUT & ABOUT: TOP PICKS FOR THE WEEK TODAY SATURDAY ‘[TITLE OF SHOW]’ 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE A musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. $25 tickets. 1-800-836-3006

3. ENTERTAINMENT:

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4-5. DINING OUT KAUAI:

KAUAI VOICES 7:30 P.M., ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, LIHUE “Simply the Best.” $12

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6. BOOK REVIEW:

‘Boys in the Trees - A Memoir’

7. CHECK DA SCENE:

RUMMAGE SALE 8 A.M., ST. CATHERINE SCHOOL SONGWRITERS SHOWCASE 5 TO 9:30 P.M., LYDGATE MAIN PAVILION Songwriters will share original music, open mic, poetry and potluck. Free KAUAI VOICES 7:30 P.M., ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, LIHUE “Simply the Best.” $12

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WALK WITH A DOC 7 A.M., WILCOX MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Followed by video conference on cancer care. CULTURAL FESTIVAL 10:30 A.M. TO NOON, KUKUI GROVE CENTER STAGE US Japan Minyo Cultural Exchange Festival. ‘[TITLE OF SHOW]’ 7 P.M., PUHI THEATRICAL WAREHOUSE $25 tickets. 1-800-836-3006

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Randy Leonard, artistic director of Kauai Voices, is animated as he leads his singers.

‘Simply the Best’ Kauai Voices to perform songs from its first nine seasons

he title says it best: “Simply the Best.” Which means this weekend’s performances by Kauai Voices is going to be, well, the best of their previous nine shows — memorable songs that have had an impact on both singers and audience. “We polled members, they selected their best pieces from past seasons,” said Randy Leonard, artistic director. “We’re pulling them back, dusting them off, giving them new spins and vibes and everything.” The group of vocal performers, all volunteers, is celebrating its 10th season with shows at 7:30 tonight and Saturday, and 3

p.m. Sunday, at St. Michael and All Angels Church. All told, 36 voices — bass, baritone, tenor, alto, soprano — will come together on stage to create one brilliant sound. “That’s main thing,” Leonard said. “First and foremost that there’s a love for the music and a love for making it happen.” The two-hour show with intermission will include an array of songs and styles, including gospel, jazz, country, blues, Hawaiian, Broadway and African. SEE BEST, PAGE 6

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he grand opening of Tapas at the Kukuiula restaurant, featuring a traditional Hawaiian blessing by Kapu Kelvin Ho, was held at the Shops at Kukuiula on Thursday. Tapas at Kukuiula offers a variety of dishes from the ‘Aina (land) and ‘Kai (sea) served tapas style with a local twist featuring Pacific Rim flavors, farm fresh local ingredients, a variety of

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since the group formed in 2011. Others are new. Continued from page 3 “It’s a wonderful challenge Songs were selected from for the singers to be able to blend with other singers and nearly 130 choral pieces harmonize,” Mojo said. “And Kauai Voices has performed during the last nine seasons. Randy makes it extremely “It’s the best of everything,” fun.” Leonard said there is a said Melissa Mojo, who sings strong bond between Kauai in the group and also helps with marketing. “It’s the best Voices and the audience. That’s why he considers this of whatever we’ve done.” weekend’s shows “the most Over the past four years, phenomenal choral music Kauai Voices has put on you’ll get on the island” that themed shows with a diversity of styles and sounds, won’t be found anywhere else. “They’ll see the true love including: “The Music of Life,” and connection with the “Going Places,” and “Made in music,” he said. the USA.” A show was added Sunday Some members of Kauai after last season’s perforVoices have been around

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mances were so packed people ended up sitting outside the church. “We have people who come back to our island just for our shows,” Mojo said. Shows will include solo performances. Monica Chung will be accompanist. The group will be joined at times by guitar, bass, percussion, clarinet, trumpet, sax, flute and trombone. “We’ve got a whole array of musicians working with us,” Leonard said. There will be an intermission. Anyone is welcome to audition for Kauai Voices. It takes a willingness to work together, having the time to practice (two hours some nights, but it goes quickly) and above all, a strong desire to sing to join “Kauai’s premier vocal ensemble.” “It’s the love of the music, the joy, that brings to people together,” Leonard said. Tickets are $12 in advance at kauaivoices.org and $15 at the door.

Feel the earth move with this memoir first three decades of her life. Revealing how the multitude of equally wonderful and disheartening events sowed the seeds that would germinate into her creative expresCYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS sion through her SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY music and poetry that would eventually be t’s not everyday that we enjoyed and get a phone call from remembered by famed musician, singer, songwriter and author, Carly many generations. Simon (thanks Meadow!). So, what do She humbly called our bookstore in Hanapepe and you think you asked if we would carry her know about Carly Simon? book. We are glad she called Sure, you might know that and naturally, we said “Yes!” she was once married to James Taylor, but here is She is as friendly and gracious as you would imagine a fact you probably didn’t her to be. And we agree that know: she is a daughter her book, “Boys in the Trees of the co-founder of the huge publishing company — A Memoir,” a bestseller Simon & Schuster. What in the New York Times, an amazing and unique deserves its accolades. crowd of people she grew Her memoir reveals up around. Did you know the person beyond the celebrity, starting from her that Carly used to suffer terribly from stage fright youth and spanning the

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his is the time of the year to repenish, rejuvenate and renew, said Julie Kaneali‘i, a coordinator of Ka Moku O Manokalanipo Pa‘ani Makahiki, or more commonly known as the Makahiki Games. “This is a celebration of people being together, and as part of the celebration of people, we have friendly competitive games,” Kaneali‘i said. “We stop war and hard work and come together.” Ka Moku O Manokalanipo

Pa‘ani Makahiki is one of the major events hosted by ‘Ahahui Kiwila Hawaii O Moikeha, one of the newest chartered Hawaiian Civic Club on Kauai. Kaneali‘i said the organization also participates in the Prince Kuhio Day at the Kauai Museum, and the annual May Day by the Bay which will be held at Waioli Park in Hanalei on May 14 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. featuring hula, music, and crafts.

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