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Click
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Bank of
Hawaii Presents
The 7th Annual
Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival
A Celebration of Story and Song
May
5-6, 2012
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Civic Grounds at Honolulu Hale,
in Historic Downtown Honolulu
FREE Admission!
and FREE Parking
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Over 500
Presenters
and 150 events
National and local best-selling
Authors
Great music and halau
PBS KIDS
National Host, Mr. Steve
PBS KIDS and other Characters
Click
here to listen to a song Mr. Steve wrote about the
festival!
A
New Songwriter Showcase Celebrates Honolulu
At
the 7th Annual Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival
From
ancient chant and hula to the latest hit song, the
spirit of Hawai‘i has traditionally been expressed
through songwriting and musical performance. Hawaiian
music’s global appeal draws people to Hawai‘i as
a destination and music is elemental to the
experience of Hawai‘i.
The 7th Annual
Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival, in partnership
with the Kaua‘i Music Festival, is presenting
the first of a new Songwriter Showcase
series with five outstanding Hawaiian
singer/songwriters, including John Cruz, Kenneth
Makuakane, Roland Cazimero, Stephen
Inglis, Walter Keale, and Jeff
Rasmussen. Jerry Brocklehurst,
Director of the Kaua‘i Music festival, will be the
Emcee.
The Songwriter Showcase
performers have been asked to write original, new
music and perform it live for the HBMF attendees.
The songs will focus on the inspirational
destination of Honolulu – a city that calls
to have more music written to share its magic!
The
month of May is “Mele Mei” (Music May) and is
celebrated throughout the month with Mele Mei events
of Hawaiian music, hula, and other musical
activities. The 7th Annual HBMF helps to kick off
this month of music with its Songwriters Showcase.
Join us Sunday, May 6 at Noon at
the Main Stage at the Civic Grounds at Honolulu Hale
in Historic Downtown Honolulu to hear these
accomplished and sought-after singer/songwriters as
they debut their original new music for Honolulu!
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2012 Featured
AUTHORS & ARTISTS
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Maxine Hong Kingston – I Love a
Broad Margin to My Life
Maxine Hong Kingston
is revered for the candor of her groundbreaking creative
nonfiction and her playful and profound fiction. She is the
winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, a
National Book Award, a National Humanities Medal, A National
Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and a recipient of
the
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"Living Treasure of Hawaii" award.
Maxine Hong
Kingston reflects on aging as she turns 65 in her book of
poetry, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life.
-- "Such is the
spirit of this wonderful book—a sense of doors opening wide
onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic
wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish."
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Julia Flynn Siler – Lost Kingdom:
Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings and America’s First
Imperial Adventure
Julia Flynn Siler,
award-winning Wall Street Journal writer and New York
Times best-selling author of this first major biography of
Queen Lili‘uokalani, explores the complex characters in the
story of the Overthrow in Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen,
the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure.
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-- Lost Kingdom is a
riveting, fleshed out account that delivers the story with
respect in an "engaging and trustworthy voice."
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Janny Scott – A Singular Woman:
The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
Janny Scott was a
reporter for The New York Times when she went on leave to
write A Singular Woman: the Untold Story of Barack Obama's
Mother. Scott interviewed nearly two hundred of Ann
Dunham’s friends, colleagues, and relatives to uncover the
life of the woman Obama credits for "what is best" in
him.
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-- "To describe
Dunham as a white woman from Kansas is about as illuminating as
describing her son as a politician who likes golf.”
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• Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele, Kekuhi Kanahele, & Kaumaka‘iwa Kanaka ‘ole
• Kaui Hart Hemmings & Jeff Peterson
–The Story and the Music of The Descendants
• Kumu Hula Michael Pili Pang & Hālau Hula Ka Na‘eau
• Folks You Meet with Lee—The Fiction, Plays and Thoughts of
Lee Cataluna
• Singer-Songwriter Showcase—5 New Songs for Honolulu
• Lee Tonouchi – Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son
• Shari Lynn—Best of Broadway
• Rebecca Cantrell – A Game of Lies
• Nola Nahulu & Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus—The Queen’s Songbook
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A MEMBER of our ‘OHANA!
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BAMO
The
annual Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival (HBMF) showcases the
heart and soul of Hawai‘i, and over the past 7 years has grown
to become a premier event on the Hawai‘i cultural and literary
calendar. This unique Festival draws over 35,000 attendees,
providing the opportunity for all to enjoy over 500 authors,
performers, hula halau, speaker panels, and enriching keiki
activities, along with
dozens of vendors and booksellers.
As
a free-admission nonprofit festival, we rely on generous support
from sponsors like Bank of Hawaii, but we need you to help this
unique and FREE event continue to grow. BAMO- the Book and Music
‘Ohana- was formed in 2010 to bring together committed
festival supporters to help make the festival a big success.
For just $20 a year, you can help the festival grow for
years to come.
To
celebrate our 7th year, we hope to grow our Book and
Music ‘Ohana with 700 new BAMO members in 2012. Please join us
today and help us reach this goal!
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Note
that a BAMO membership ($20) brings a benefit of an annual
subscription to Honolulu Magazine, which costs HBMF $8, so HBMF
nets $12.
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will get back to you with a receipt and a BAMO registration.
Mahalo
nui for your support!
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