E Kanikapila Kākou 2025 // 8 Week Concert Series

E Kanikapila Kākou 2025 Theme: “Music Heals” & “Hawaiian Music Traditions”

Monday Nights – 6:00 pm– 8:30 pm (Doors Open at 5:00 pm)

February 3 – Flashback with Makana; dress up in vintage fashion of the 1940ʻs and 1950ʻs

February 10 – Kapaʻa Middle School Choir and ʻUkulele Band with Mary Lardizabal, director

February 17 – “Kanikapila Jam with the Masters” Ledward Kaapana, Jeff Peterson, Bobby Ingano & David Kamakahi

February 24 – The Amazing Charlotte Apo with the “Mokihana Serenaders” (Paul Ventura, Pancho Graham, Norman Kaawa Solomon, Kilipaki Vaughan) PLUS “Hot Kūpuna Nights where Kūpuna Strut Their Stuff”

March 3 – Community Hula Night featuring Kane Kumu Hula with the Malie Foundation

March 10 — Madison Makanaokahaku Scott; Kim Sueoka

March 17 – Kamalei Kawaʻa Music (Top 20 in Season 25 of The Voice)

March 24 – “A Legacy of Hawaiian Song & String” with Raiatea Helm (Music of the late 19th & early 20th centuries)

PLEASE CHECK THE CONCERT DATE YOU ARE PURCHASING FOR. A note about the Eventbrite checkout process:: If you are interested in attending multiple concerts, the Eventbrite sales platform is unable to do a checkout for more than one concert date at a time; You must purchase each event date separately. We apologize for the inconvenience.

General admission $20 // Kama'aina $10 // Keiki 17 years + under Free

Tickets will also be available at the door

EKK PATRONS are invited to support the season with their early donations

by contributing at www.gardenislandarts.com, notify by email

to [email protected], or sign up as a Patron at the door. Patrons get

priority seating in the ballroom. Checks can be mailed to GIAC, PO Box

827, Lihue HI 96766.

Food and beverages are for sale by the hotel in the ballroom. CDs of the performers are generally available for sale, as well as EKK T-shirts, various artists' crafts, and the popular BoroBoro Boutique up-styled garments rendered by GIAC artists.

Hotel Parking Options: Parking options at the Kaua`i Beach Resort include the following three choices: 1. Valet parking at the porte-cochere; 2. Free event parking in the unpaved area beyond the covered parking stalls — get there by turning right at the first opportunity and then take a left into a dirt field; or 3. Enter the first gated area on your right, a bit closer to the ballroom entrance than the dirt entrance, and turn into that gated area. Press a button to make the gate rise, collect a ticket issued by the machine and hold onto it. Get it validated just inside the ballroom door to receive a special validation for a $10 total parking fee. Use that ticket to exit the gate, paying the balance due at the gate with your credit card.

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Go to www.gardenislandarts.org for link to "Celebrating 42 years of EKK" — a recap of E Kanakapila Kākou most memorable moments.

For more information: [email protected].

The Garden Island Arts Council presents E Kanikapila Kakou 2025 as a Community Enrichment program made possible with funding support from the Hawai’i Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB) and the Hawai’i Tourism Authority (HTA) with support services from the Kaua’i Visitors Bureau (KVB). Celebrating Forty Two (42) Years of bringing to Kaua’i audiences, kama’aina and malihini alike, the very best of Hawaiian music and culture, GIAC acknowledges the tremendous and continuous support that makes this program possible.

Host or Publisher Garden Island Arts Council