Iggy Jang
(Media release) — The Hawai’i Performing Arts Festival presents ‘Tis The Season, a gala holiday concert and audience sing along at Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at 7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 11, 2009.
The concert will feature violinist and Honolulu Symphony Concertmaster Iggy Jang and HPAF Artistic Director Val Underwood accompanying a cast of vocalists selected as “audience favorites” from the July festival, including Angie Solomon and Alysia Lee. Musical theater, opera and favorite music of the season will abound. The holiday gala is generously underwritten by Monks Delight Kona Coffee, Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, and Tiffany and Co. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Alysia Lee, Angie Solomon, Annunciation Church Food Bank, Arc of Kona, Charles Michael Brotman, Charlie Recaido, Elliot Reddekopp, Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, Hamakua Music Festival, Hawai’i Performing Arts Festival, Honolulu Symphony, Iggy Jang, Jake Shimabukuro, Kohala, Monks Delight Kona Coffee, Paloma Picasso, Tiffany and Co., Val Underwood
(Curtis Narimatsu is a lifelong resident of Hilo who writes about the forgotten past such as the old
plantation days & untold heroes.)
Mokuola
Mokuola, known today as Coconut Island, was a place of refuge like Honaunau City of Refuge. Mokuola sacred rock still lies in the inlet where kids swim today. Mokuola point is where ancient Haw’ns preserved ancestral bones/islet jutting 
to sea is where bones were cured by elements. More recently, Ike Keli’ipio’s family, then kin Paul, were Mokuola’s keeper/caretaker [Ike tsunami victims' hero for saving lives 1946]. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 1960 Kapoho Lava Flow, City of Refuge, Coconut Island, David Watumull, Emily Wery, German National Hackfield Co., Hawaiian Paradise Park, June Gutmanis, Kamehameha III, Kauikeaouli, King's Landing, Kohala, Law of the Splintered Paddle, Mahukona, Mokuola, P'u Kuki'i, Parker Ranch, Queen Liliuokalani, Veterans, WWI Cattle Anthrax
