Hawaii Tribune-Herald Island Beat Thursday, May 4, 2017 5 Celebrate our ʻUKULELE YOUTH and help us honor GEORGE CAMARILLO SENIOR! The Waiakea ʻUkulele Band with BJ Soriano and students will perform! Tickets only $8 in advance or $10 Day of Show. Bring your own ʻukulele, get in for $8 and join in our ʻUKULELE FINALE! CONCERT From page 4 hour and you’re rushed through. Let’s get it done and that’s good enough and let’s move on is what happens. There was no fear of saying, ‘Let’s do it again; I think we can do better. One more.’ And when you play the song until you get the vibe and feel that you want, you end that take and you all look at each other and go, ‘Yeah, that was the one. That’s a keeper.’” Flood, who was the lead female vocalist in the band Technical Difficulties with Veilleux, will sing a duet with fellow TD alum De Aguiar. “I’m excited I get to work with all these talented kids and Trever again,” Flood said. “We had the jazz band when I was in school but it wasn’t what it is today. It’s huge. I love coming to see the shows. And when Trever asked me to be in it, I was like, ‘What?’ Because I’ve seen the shows and they’re so incredible.” The jazz orchestra concertizes twice each school year, and has received a great deal of notoriety for their mostly sold-out Frank Zappa tribute shows at the end of each fall semester, a fruition of Veilleux’s vision. “I’ve always been a Zappa fanatic and I haven’t met a lot of other ones,” Veilleux said. “I’d hoped it would catch on, but I did it because I love the music and I wanted to share it with the students. And before the first one, there was even a discussion with the folks at the theater about tickets sales. I said, ‘I don’t know if this will sell but I want to do this show.’ “The fact that it’s taken off and we’ve been allowed to make it an annual thing, I’m beyond surprised. The fact that I get to share this music with these incredible young musicians and the community comes out and supports it, it’s been unreal.” Veilleux and the band are the subject of “Zappa U,” a just-released rockumentary film by Steven Roby that can be seen on YouTube. “As a rock music historian, I’ve always been inspired by documentaries that follow a young musician’s journey to the concert stage, like ‘Breaking A Monster,’ for example,” Roby said. “The UH-Hilo Jazz Orchestra had a unique story that I felt needed capturing, and the takeaway for me was seeing these students tackle complicated Frank Zappa compositions like pros.” The Zappa shows, which started in 2013, became an instant phenomenon, courtesy of the “coconut wireless” — good, old-fashioned word of mouth. “When I first started, we were only doing jazz standards — ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing,’ those kinds of things. It was cool,” said Timmons, who’s played off and on with the group since 2009. “But then, Trever started throwing some Zappa stuff to the band and we started doing some other fun stuff.” That fun stuff also included a Blues Brothers tribute show and “Funk it Up,” a show celebrating mostly 1970s funk such as Tower of Power and Parliament/ Funkadelic. “The shows definitely have a rock concert feel to them,” Timmons said. Several of the numbers feature dance choreographed by Dori Yamada. “I’ve had the pleasure to work and perform alongside him for the past five or six years now and this one definitely feels the most personal and special because it originated from his creative genius,” Yamada said. These end-of-semester concerts often sell out, so call the UHH box office at 932-7490 between 9 a.m.-1 p.m today to check ticket availability. Email John Burnett at jburnett@hawaiitribune-herald. com. Millington to rock the Hawaiian Sanctuary June Millington, acclaimed in the current issue of Guitar Player Magazine as one of the “50 Sensational Female Guitarists” will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Hawaiian Sanctuary eco-retreat. The address for the intimate, beautiful venue is 13-3194 Pahoa-Kalapana Road in Pahoa, and the suggested donation of $10 to $20 will go to the Institute for the Musical Arts, a teaching, performing and recording facility dedicated to supporting women and girls in music and music-related business. Millington, artistic director of IMA, co-founded the organization with her partner, Ann Hackler. Part of its mission is to operate summer rock ’n’ roll programs for girls and young women. Millington and her bassist sister, Jean, were part of Fanny, which in the 1960s was one of the first all-female rock bands to be signed to a major record label. Fanny toured worldwide with bands including Chicago and Dr. John. After Fanny, Millington became involved in the women’s music movement when she was asked to play on and tour supporting Cris Williamson’s “The Changer and the Changed,” which would become the defining album of that genre. “Women’s music” quickly evolved into an independent feminist music network that included production companies, venues, festivals, record labels, and distribution networks. It was in that genre that Millington began to produce albums for, among others, Williamson, singer songwriter Holly Near and jazz pianist and composer Mary Watkins. For more information call 982- 9104 or email bellaluna12@juno. com. Photo: MARITA MADELONI Women’s rock music pioneer June Millington will play at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Hawaiian Sanctuary eco-retreat in Pahoa.
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