Garden Island Arts Council

Kicking off the 2012 season, EKK offers a concert featuring Dennis Kamakahi and Stephen Inglis. They’ll appear together in Concert on Sunday, January 29 at 7 p.m. in the Jasmine Ballroom of the Kaua`i Beach Resort, 4331 Kauai Beach Drive, Lihu`e. Students of Ke Kula Niihau o Kekaha will open the evening with chant, music [...]

Brother Noland is a native Hawaiian musician with an international reputation as a musical artist. Acclaimed as a ki ho`alu guitarist, he is also a prolific recording artist and composes scores for film and television. His professional and community honors include multiple Na Hoku Hanohano and Billboard Music awards, the Hawai`i Music Awards 2002 Male [...]

Sunday, January 29 through Saturday, March 31 All programs will take place at Kaua`i Beach Resort E Kanikapila Kakou (EKK) — it means, literally, let’s play music together — is the Garden Island Arts Council’s grassroots Hawaiian music program now in its 29th season. An opening and a closing concert plus nine Monday night lesson/presentations [...]

Welcome to the New ARTS, the newsletter of the Garden Island Arts Council. Bringing you information about the GIAC and the arts community isn’t new, but the way it’s coming to you is. We were pleased to enclose the ARTS newsletter on a quarterly basis inside of the publication For Kaua`i. Publishing expenses were high [...]

Article by Anne E. O’Malley Photos by Anne E. O’Malley unless otherwise stated. Koke‘e and Hawaiian music were meant for each other. It’s the place where haku mele (composers) bloom—and mele in the Hawaiian language blossom. For example, two years ago at the first camp, Uncle Nathan Kalama wrote two mele. One of them, Nani [...]

This EKK season, on each evening, volunteers displayed a koa ukulele donated by Kaua‘i Music and Sound. The volunteers encouraged all to purchase tickets for a drawing to take place on closing night. As the season moved forward, each week, the presenters added their signatures to the ukulele, making it a true collector’s item. On [...]

Year 28 of E Kanikapila Kakou saw audiences welcome 220 Hawaiian music composers, performers and entertainers for 11 Monday nights, each night with its own energy and charm, filled with storytelling, humorous anecdotes and awesome talent. This season had as its theme Hula and Harmony. Annually, a theme is struck when three collaborative organizations put [...]