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Aloha Friends and Music Fans,

Most of you may know about my two upcoming “Birthday Bash for Johnny Cash” shows on the 20th and 27th of this month, the first at S.P.A.C.E. in Seaview, Kalapana, and the second at East Hawaii Cultural Center in Hilo.

Both of these venues are wonderful spaces for performance, and the shows are going to be sensational, but the professional promotion I thought I had hired out has completely fizzled, so it looks like there won’t be any newspaper articles or radio interviews or any other media buzz that will help to sell the minimum 100 seats for each show that we need to make this venture a happy success.

So I turn to you to use the grassroots power of e-mail and friendship, and ask your help to promote these two shows. If you’ve enjoyed my music and you like Johnny Cash’s legacy, please let your friends and e-mail lists know about these shows, and plan to come with as many friends as you can. Advance tickets for both shows are available, and it’s advance ticket sales that will help us to see whether we’re in the ball park yet. EHCC in Hilo has sold a few tickets, but because we have had no promotion at all in Puna, neither Jungle Love nor Book Buyers (both in Pahoa) have sold any tickets yet for the show at S.P.A.C.E. Read the rest of this entry »

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Among us was a mermaid, a leopard, batwoman, spiderman, Jasmine, Snow White, the alphabet, and a baby octopus. Our team of trick-or-treaters hit old Pahoa Town, the littlest ones by stroller and a wagon.

Before the rain came down we hit every lit business and residence. Gladly, many of the businesses offered us treats — Jeff Hunt Surfboards, L & L Hawaiian Barbecue, Black Rock Cafe, Pahoa Home Video, 7-Eleven, Pahoa Cash-N-Carry, Island Naturals, Book Buyers, Puna Style, Sukothai Restaurant, Pahoa Village Cafe, Boogie Woogie Pizza, the tattoo parlor, LuQuin’s Mexican Restaurant, even the Pahoa Fire Station.

Sadly, one of the only establishments in the historic corridor to reject us was the police substation.  Officer Watkins answered the door, empty-handed.  ”Sorry, we don’t have any candy,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »