Week of Friday, June 8, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 23
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KAUAI VOICES ROCKS!
Concerts celebrate the heart of rock ‘n’ roll
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Randy Leonard directs the Kauai Voices during a rehearsal at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Lihue.
plans to do next week for their three concerts at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Lihue. It promises to be rocking good fun and some emotional trips down memory lane as the 40-plus voice choral ensemble delivers some classics hits like “Stairway To Heaven,” “Love Shack,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and, of course, “We Will Rock You.” “It’s going to be an exciting show,” said Randy Leonard, Kauai Voices direc-
tor. “It’s a different one than we’ve ever done before.” Different, yes, but still spectacular. The group is ready to rock out and welcomes the audience to join in, by singing or dancing or both. Lee Miller, Kauai Voices member, believes the energy and creativity of the group, and variety of songs will create an awesome show. He expects an animated concert. “I like some of these songs because it takes us
back, of course, to when we were younger,” Miller said. “These songs, they bring back a lot of memories for lots of people.” He’s confident the crowd will relate to the music and have lots of fun. “I think the audience will love it,” he said. “It’s get-upand-go kind of music.” Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 17. SEE VOICES, PAGE 3
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“We will deliver the heart of rock ‘n’ roll to our audiences,” said Leonard, explaining that this popular music originated in the United States in the 1950s, with roots in gospel, blues, jazz, Afro-American, boogie, and country music. “This music influenced language, attitudes, lifestyles and politics, including the civil rights movement.” Each Kauai Voices performance has a theme. Past shows have featured classics, love songs and Cole Porter. “We just like to keep changing it up,” Leonard said. “We don’t want it to ever be boring or ever have a point where it’s expected or predictable. What we’re doing is just trying to find different themes all the time.” That, they did with Kauai Voices ROCKS! Performing music from 1957 to 1989, Kauai Voices will feature the songs of such beloved musicians as The Everly Brothers, The Beatles, Queen, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The B-52’s, The Beach Boys, and Elvis Presley. Other songs they will perform include “Piano Man,” “House of the Rising Sun,” and “Johnny B. Goode.” There will be solos and duets, along with the group. Monica Chung will be accompanist. “We will rock you,” promises Leonard, who has more than 35 years of experience directing vocal and choir groups. “The energy is high and we have a fantastic lineup of amazing music.” Kauai Voices, a nonprofit founded in 2011, produces two seasons of concerts
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Asher Griffith plays the trumpet during Kauai Voices rehearsal.
each year in Lihue. The shows feature a different theme each season with many different styles and genres of music. The group typically is accompanied by piano, an instrumental ensemble, and also highlights soloists, duets, and small vocal groups. Tickets for Kauai Voices ROCKS! concerts are $15 each in advance and $20 at the door. VIP early seating is also available at $25 each, providing early entrance and prime seating choices. Tickets on sale now. Leonard also pointed out that June 17 is Father’s Day and the show will include three father/son teams. Laine Griffith will be on woodwinds while son Asher is on trumpet. John Alderete
and son Ethan will both play the violin, while Mark Gregory and son Spencer will play guitar. Leonard promises Kauai Voices will deliver a show packed with energy, emotion and good times. “Come and really enjoy all these songs that you all have grown up with, that you know and love,” he said. “We’re going to give you a great performance of different styles within rock and roll. You will have a hard time sitting in your seats through this show.” Tickets: www.kauaivoices. org or 838-3006 ••• Bill Buley, editor-in-chief, can be reached at 2450457 or bbuley@thegardenisland.com.
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PLANTATIONS IN WAIMEA MORE THAN GOOD GRINDS A portion of proceeds helps North Shore youth camp DENNIS FUJIMOTO TGIFR!DAY
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oe Kali drove his family from Lihue to the Plantations BBQ & Bar Sunday in Waimea. “We had friends visiting from California, and they had breakfast here,” said Lisa Kali. “We didn’t even
know this place was open, so we’re just checking it out because our friends said it was pretty good.” The Plantations BBQ & Bar is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the building adjacent to the Waimea Plantation Cottages.
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ABOVE: Mama Ane Kanahele’s family, including Kiai Kaaumoana-Morton, Sydney Kaaumoana-Morton, Hi‘ipoi Vakameilau, Keikialoha Kanahele, Sanjay Kaaumoana-Morton and Hiwapoe Kaaumoana-Morton wait on their orders at the Plantations BBQ & Bar at Waimea Plantation Cottages. LEFT: The rib plate from the entree menu.
“It’s hard to see a good place shut and not being used,” said Mama Ane Kana-
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hele, who dropped in for an after-church gathering with her family. “This is a good place where the family can gather.” The proceeds from Plantations BBQ & Bar go toward keeping Makanalani, a unique free camp available to youth. Makanalani, translated from Hawaiian to mean “Heavenly Gift,” is a 130-acre ranch on Kauai’s North Shore where youth from Hawaii can experience nature, farm life, the love of God and the love of others. Jim Smith, Plantations manager, said the Waimea eatery is a franchise of
Chicken in a Barrel. This spirit of love and The partnership is unique giving fits into the mission because of the restaurant’s for Plantations BBQ & Bar, proceeds supporting touted as the “west-most Makanalani. family restaurant in the Chicken in a Barrel BBQ United States,” and its sister started out as a Kauai operation, JoJo’s Shave Ice community outreach in downtown Waimea. in the 1990s, serving The main attraction is the barrel-smoked meat at barrel-smoked meat, pork, fundraisers and community chicken, and fish done in events. Despite having two special barrels outside the restaurants that have been restaurant, its tantalizing voted “Best BBQ in Hawaii” aroma grabbing diners at for four years, Chicken in a the entrance to tease the Barrel BBQ is still known for tastebuds. giving away meals to those “I know about the in need at special times like smoked meat,” said Chris Thanksgiving, Christmas, Faye, director of the Kokee and during natural disasters like the recent flooding. SEE PLANTATIONS, PAGE 5
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Museum and Hui o Laka. “But I like the wraps. They use the same meat, but have it done in wraps.” “The most popular request is the Sampler Plate,” Smith said. “This gives diners a little taste of chicken, beef, pork, and a baby back rib.” There are separate entrees available for the Chicken in a Barrel plates: baby back ribs, beef or pork, as well as a salad offering that includes Hanalei mixed greens with a choice of dressing. Grill items include 100 percent Kauai beef burgers, and the Mexi’Que offers tacos and burritos. “I wanted the cinnamon roll,” Lisa said. “But they were gone, already. I guess you need to get here early to get them.” The cinnamon roll is on the breakfast menu that includes the traditional eggs with
choice of meat, pancakes, a loco moco, and more specialty items like the breakfast burrito, a veggie scramble and papaya yogurt granola. The happy hour menu includes appetizers and a selection of popular brews. Draft selections are from the Maui Brewing Company, including the Big Swell IPA, Bikini Blonde
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A PURRR-FECT SUMMERTIME READ CYNTHIA LYNN & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY
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or all you cat lovers and cat enthusiasts, or cat people you know,
this one’s for you! Through our book reviews, we introduced you to ” Why Cats Paint” and “Dancing With Cats.” But who knew that our cats could also write poetry?! And that is exactly what this book is: feline poetry and prose. And our furry friends have a lot to say! Of course our store cat, Celeste (“The Boss”), has put her paw print of
approval on this book! Francesco Marciuliano, the author of the internationally syndicated comic strip “Sally Forth,” has allowed these cats to freely express themselves on every page of “I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats.” Funny as well as insightful, these pages make you feel like your cat could have written any one of these.
It truly captures the hearts, minds and souls of our domestic felines. The cat pictures and illustrations show these wonderful kitties in adorable poses that easily pull you right in. Does your cat sit on your face? Does your cat do things to you while you are sleeping? Ever feel you are owned by your cat? Does your cat bring you or leave you
disgusting “gifts”? Wonderful titles such as “This Is My Chair,” “Tripped,” “Talk To Me,” “Nudge,” “I Lick Your Nose,” “Kneel Before Me” and “man’s Best Friend” will have you in stitches! Each one just makes you want to read the next one! If you or a friend ever feel down this book will immediately lift your spirits! The book is a small
hard-cover that is easy to read and an obvious conversation starter on your coffee table. ••• Cynthia Lynn and Ed Justus are owners of The Bookstore in Hanapepe.
FRED ROGERS DOC A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBROHOOD JAKE COYLE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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o accustomed are we to the downfall and disgrace of men that a marvelous sense of its absence propels the rich and glowing documentary “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Fifty years after he made his public television debut, Fred Rogers remains aloft: a pure and gentle soul never befallen by scandal, a still-shining beacon of kindness without the near-requisite dark shadow. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” — as snug as a worn sweater — is hagiography. But it’s deserved hagiography. And thank the Lord it’s not an expose. The film, directed by Morgan Neville, uses behind-the-scenes footage from “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” archival video of Rogers and copious talking-head interviews with his collaborators and family members,
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David Newell, as Mr. McFeely, left, and Fred Rogers on the set of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” from the film, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
including his wife, Joanne, and their two sons. It’s an affecting window into what remains very possibly the most benevolent broadcast ever regularly beamed out on the small screen. As unique as “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” was in its own TV era, Rogers would seem downright
extraterrestrial on today’s cable menu. Not long after Neville plays a snippet of Fox News where pundits bemoan Rogers for coddling a generation by teaching them that everyone is special, a former worker on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” wonders if there’s room today “for a nice person on TV.”
What would Rogers — whose ire was raised by Superman movies that made kids think they could fly — make of an entertainment landscape where superhero blockbusters are billed as family entertainment? But where, on Earth, did he come from? In the documentary, Rogers does sometimes smack of something alien, most of all when Neville relates how Rogers claimed he weighed 143 pounds every day of his adult life. The numbers, he felt, corresponded with the letters in “I love you.” The answer, of course, is that Rogers came from outside Pittsburgh, and he was on his way to seminary before his first blush with television changed his trajectory. An often ill child (Rogers had scarlet fever) who was bullied as “Fat Freddy” for being overweight, Rogers was left, as he says, “to make up a lot of my own fun.” The hand puppet Daniel Striped
Tiger would eventually become a kind of outlet for Rogers’ own fears and anxieties. But he also emerged from his youth with a profound sensitivity to the slings and arrows of childhood. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” opens with a home-video clip of Rogers sitting at a piano in 1967 (a year before “Neighborhood” debuted nationwide) describing how he’d like to “help children through the difficult modulations of life.” With these simple beliefs — love yourself, love your neighbor — Rogers made a quietly revolutionary show. He spoke about divorce and tackled racism. To show what a minute was, he patiently let an egg timer tick it off. To help children understand the world they were growing up in, he spoke frankly, without condescension, about traumatic events. His advice for the most horrific disasters still regularly goes viral: “Look for the people who are helping,” he said.
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ighty bicycles were given away in celebration of Wilcox Health Center’s 80th anniversary during the annual Kids Summer Fest at the Kauai Marriott Resort & Beach Club. More than 1,500 participants took advantage of the fun, free and inter-active educational presentations offered at more than 20 stations. There were also health and nutritional tips geared toward keiki having a safe and healthy summer, sports physicals and dental screenings. A healthy snack highlighted the day. The festival was presented by Wilcox Health Center and Hawaii Pacific Health.
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