10 | FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 BIG ISLAND ENTERTAINMENT SCENE | WEST HAWAII TODAY ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Of Navajo-Ute heritage, Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute. Since 1983, he has released more than 40 albums on the Canyon Records label in addition to many albums and guest appearances on other labels. In addition to his educational workshops and residencies, Nakai has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, including with more than 15 symphony and chamber orchestras. Tickets for the 7 p.m. Global Media Productions show on Friday, April 7, range in price from $30 to $50. They can be purchased online at www.brightstarevents.net/ kater-nakai or www.kahilutheatre. org or by or call (808) 875-8820. DMAC hosts artists talk Thursday Donkey Mill Art Center hosts a free artists talk with Claudia Bruhin from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday. Bruhin is the director of La Meridiana in Tuscany, a nonprofit institution for the advancement of the ceramic arts, She is Swiss born and has been living in Italy for 35 years. Her studies in different fields have given her a broad background in history, art history, arts & crafts and administration. Since 2007, she has collaborated with La Meridiana, directing the schools program, which includes ceramic workshops, painting workshops and study abroad program. The talk is free; attendees are asked to bring a potluck dish to share. Info: www.donkeymillartcenter.org. 7th annual MAMo Gallery show opens April 7 Twenty Native Hawaiian artists will showcase their artwork in the seventh annual MAMo (Maoli Arts Month) Gallery at Wailoa Center. For the past seven years, MAMo has sponsored a gallery show in Hilo with this year’s show being titled “Ehiku” or “Seven” as this is the seventh consecutive year at the Wailoa Center’s Main Gallery. “Ehiku” will feature 20 Native Hawaiian artists and cover many different genres and media, including traditional and contemporary artwork, and even a fashion show. The featured artists are Ben Ka’uhane Heloca, Bernice Akamine, Ka’ohu Seto, Almaline Ku’uipo Grey-Parker, Tom O’o Mehau, Keoki Apokolani Carter, Kauanoe Chang, Natalie Mahina Jensen, Momi Greene, James Kunani Kaulukukui, Lehua Waipa Ah Nee, Beau Jack Key, Nelson Makua, Kainoa Makua, Jimie Ramos, Kalei Nu’uhiwa, Maile Lu’uwai, Roberta Hannah Muller, Haley Kailiehu, and Pi’iali’i Lawson. For the first time this year, there will be a student art show located in the downstairs Fountain Gallery. Two outstanding visual artists from the Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii Campus will be featured: Nainoa Rosehill, a senior, and Tiari Faagata, a junior. The exhibition of their works are titled “E Kulia I ka Nu’u,” or “Striving for the Summit.” An opening reception is slated from 5 to 7 p.m. on April 7 at Wailoa Center. Info: www.wailoacenter.com. KCS holding fundraiser April 9 Kona Choral Society is holding a fundraiser, “Canzoni D’Amore” or “Songs of Love” from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. on April 9 at Mi’s Waterfront Bistro on Alii Drive. The event will feature a performance by soprano Amy Mills, tenor Bernaldo Evangelista, and Tatyana Shapiro on harp. There will also be a silent auction and pupus and desserts. Tickets are $75 and include a complimentary drink. They can be purchased online at www.konachoralsociety.org. The Kona Choral Society’s spring concert, “Requiem for the Living,” under the direction of Susan McCreary Duprey, is slated for 4 p.m. on May 13 at the Sheraton Kona Resort and Spa at Keauhou Bay. The concert will feature Dan Forrest’s work of the same name as well as works of the Hawaiian tradition by composers Les Ceballos, Randy Fong and Dorothy Gillet. Tickets for the spring concert are $25 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are on sale 1 at www. konachoralsociety.org and at Kona Stories and Kona Bay Books. Kahilu Theatre presents Lage, Eldridge, O’Donovan Release The Hounds: An Evening with Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Aoife O’Donovan is slated for 7 p.m. on April 13 at Waimea’s Kahilu Theatre. A night of intrepid songwriting and acoustic innovation, beginning with O’Donovan at center stage. O’Donovan draws from her catalogue of songs, played as she wrote them; with just her acoustic guitar and voice. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge follow with their masterly acoustic performance typical of the virtuoso duo, known for pushing the envelope of folk, bluegrass, and jazz. The evening concludes with all three on stage together in an aural-hootenanny. Tickets range in price from $20 to $68 and are available online at www. kahilutheatre.org, by calling (808) 885- 6868, or at the theater’s box office at 67-1186 Lindsey Road in Waimea from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on weekdays. Info: www.kahilutheatre.org. David Bromberg Band coming to Hawaii The David Bromberg Band is coming to Hawaii in support of their new release “The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing but the Blues.” David Bromberg, the godfather of Americana, decorated multiinstrumentalist and singer-songwriter, joins his David Bromberg Quintet for a three-island tour in April. One show will performed on the Big Island on April 14 at Honokaa People’s Theatre, according to Lazar Bear Productions. The band will feature Bromberg (guitar and vocals); Mark Cosgrove (guitars, mandolin and vocals); Nate Grower (fiddle, mandolin, guitar and vocals); Josh Kanusky (drums); and Suavek Zaniesienko (bass and vocals). “The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing but the Blues” was released on Oct. 14, 2016, on Red House Records. Bromberg, known as a hired gun guitarist for recording sessions, has played on hundreds of records by artists including Bob Dylan, Link Wray, The Eagles, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, George Harrison, Jorma Kaukonen and Carly Simon. Doors open at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. show at Honokaa People’s Theatre. Tickets are $45 to $65 and can be purchased online at www.lazarbear. com or by calling 896-4845. They’re also available in Kona at Kona Music Exchange, Sound Wave Music and Kiernan’s Music; in Waimea at Waimea General Store; in Honokaa at Taro Patch Gifts; in Hilo at Hilo Guitars, CD Wizard and Hilo Music Exchange; and in Keaau at Keaau Natural Foods. Info: www.davidbromberg.net. Calls for entries HSFCA seeks artists The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is seeking artists to submit qualifications for consideration for several commissioned works of art project sites within the state Department of Education. This call is part of the Art in Public Places-Artists in Residence (APP-AIR) Program, a collaborative initiative between the Department Continued on page 11 ➠ ➠ Continued from page 5 This painting by James Kunani Kaulukukui will be featured in the 7th annual MAMo Gallery show opening April 7 at Wailoa Center. COURTESY PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII This watercolor piece by Nainoa Rosehill, a senior at Kamehameha Schools, will be exhibited in the Fountain Gallery. COURTESY PHOTO/ SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY Aalii Ku Makani, or “Aalii Standing in the Wind,” is a commissioned art project by Randall Shiroma at Ka’u High School in Pahala. COURTESY PHOTO/SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
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