WEST HAWAII TODAY | BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2017 | 3 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Shows & events Kohala Coast Fine Art hosts artist reception Kohala Coast Fine Art will host a reception for local artist Alex Gupton this evening at the gallery in Kings’ Shops. Gupton’s newest work will be featured and refreshments will be served during the free 5 to 9 p.m. event. Info: Kohala Coast Fine Art on Facebook.com Harbor Gallery hosts reception this evening for Kristi Kranz Harbor Gallery in Kawaihae will be Trash Fashion Show, a performance hosting a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. this highlighting creative fashions made evening for Big Island artist Kristi Kranz. entirely from recycled material. Kranz is a longtime resident whose The Kona Brewers Festival has raised passion for painting is inspired by the awareness, visibility and funding for natural beauty around her. Her silk wall more than 40 nonprofit and community hangings, framed paintings and shoji organizations supporting the wellbeing screens depict luminous visions of lush of Hawaii’s youth, environmental hideaways, waterfalls, lily ponds, native conservation, and cultural traditions. flowers, hula dancers and playful honu, Info: www.konabrewersfestival.com. as well as powerful images of Pele and the spiritual side of Hawaiian culture. 2017 Jazz in the Forest Almost all of Kranz’s pieces are one-ofa series kicks off Saturday kind originals, but she has produced a limited number of giclee prints of a few of The 2017 Jazz in the Forest series the images. She feels that prints do not kicks off with 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. do the medium justice, since light plays performances on Saturday featuring such an important part in the translucent Jean Pierre Thoma and the Jazztones. images, brightening the colors in a way The Volcano Art Center’s concert series that prints on a flat surface cannot attain. offers an opportunity to hear the highest Refreshments and light pupus will be caliber jazz — up close and personal. served during the reception. Harbor Gallery Matt Spencer, of the Jazztones, is a is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. longtime professional musician and multiinstrumentalist. Info: 882-1510, www.harborgallery. He has been honing his biz or email gunner@harborgallery.biz. craft as an artist for almost 30 years. Honokaa Jazz Band offers Having studied jazz at the renown University of North Texas, Spencer has free performance enjoyed a dynamic career as a musician. He has been primarily a freelance The Honokaa Jazz Band will offer musician, touring, recording and writing a free performance this evening music with many different groups in many at The Shops at Mauna Lani. different styles. Playing bass, guitar and The Moonlight Mele Jazz Concert will percussion, he can cover a wide range of run from 6 to 7 p.m. at the shopping musical vocabulary — from jazz to African, center and features a performance by Brazilian to funk, and salsa to spiritual. the Honokaa Jazz Band. The concert will He led his own one-piece salsa band, was be held at The Shops center stage. musical director for Cleo Parker Robinson Info: www.theshopsatmaunalani.com. dance company, toured with the Motet, Kona Brewers Festival Saturday Tony Furtado, and Kyle Hollingsworth, and worked as a studio musician in Los Angeles The 22nd annual Kona Brewers Festival and a dance accompanist for many premier will be held Saturday at King Kamehameha’s dance schools around the country. Kona Beach Hotel in Kailua-Kona. Tickets for the 4:30 p.m. show are $17 for The fundraising celebration is being VAC members and $20 for nonmembers. held in two sessions, the “Afternoon Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. show increase to Delight,” from noon to 3 p.m., and the $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers. “Sunset Session,” from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets are available for sale online at Tickets for the “Afternoon Delight” session www.volcanoartcenter.org, at Volcano were still available Thursday morning. They Art Centers’s Administration Office are $75 and include craft brew samplings in Volcano Village and VAC Gallery in from three dozen Hawaii and mainland Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. breweries, and samplings of a variety of The last day to purchase tickets online local food prepared by top Big Island chefs. or at VAC Gallery is today. After today, The festival also features live music and entertainment, including the Continued on page 9 ➠ Kona Boys nominated for Canadian Screen Award Jonny and Daniel Stimac are shown at the World Premiere of “A Date With Miss Fortune.” COURTESY PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY “Almost Had It All” a song from the feature film “A Date With Miss Fortune” has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award, Canada’s equivalent of the Oscars. The song features local artists Jonny Stimac and his brother, Daniel Stimac. Daniel wrote the song, and Jonny directed the music video for it and also was featured on vocals along with Los Angeles vocalist Alexis Umathum. Both Jonny and Daniel were born and raised in Kona. They have been working creatively together since they were kids. They have produce many different music and film projects together, including Jonny’s band, Goodbye Elliott; in which their younger brother Chris Stimac is a part of as well, playing lead guitar and backing vocals. The keyboard player in Goodbye Elliott, Ryan Johnston also works closely with Jonny in all of their film ventures. Jonny and Johnston have a film and music studio in Kailua- Kona called “Big Island Studios.” “A lot of successful relationships and projects have come through over the years, stemming from Goodbye Elliott. It’s fun to see,” said Jonny. “Even Jordan Smallwood our drummer in Goodbye Elliott is a writer on many of our projects.” More recently Jonny directed the feature film adventure, “SPIT — The Story of a Caveman and a Chicken,” which took home the award for best picture at the Honolulu Film Festival. Johnston was the cinematographer for the film, and Daniel was the composer. “We are all so excited to be considered for the Canadian Screen Award. It is such an honor,” said Jonny. “Danny wrote such a beautiful song and we are all so proud of the music video.” The Canadian Screen Awards take place this Sunday. WEST HAWAII TODAY “5 Women” by Kristi Kranz. The Big Island artist will be featured during an artist reception from 6 to 8 p.m. this evening at Harbor Gallery. COURTESY PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
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