Producers of
Princess Kaiulani

To Face Challenge is to Grow

Six weeks before our 8th Annual Lei Day Festival we learned that 100% of our funding had been cut. Unable to pay for stages, sound systems, materials, supplies, entertainment, or even restroom facilities, the steering committee was in a quandry.

Then, Hawai`i showed what Hawai`i is all about.

This whole web page would be filled with "mahalo nui loas" and there still would not be enough bandwidth to thank all those who have stepped up to offer time, talent, supplies, and everything else it takes to put on a program like this.

As you go through the website and see the names of the various entertainers, demonstrators, "stagehands," and all the others who make a program like this happen, please know that not a single one recieved any compensation more than "mahalo nui loa for your time and aloha."

Mahalo, mahalo again and again.

Being entertainers and working people ourselves, the steering committee understands that pulling together like this, dropping everything to kokua, is huge. And so, to honor that aloha and effort, the committee is restructuring the festival business model so that the festival will become self-supporting and fiscally sustainable, providing not just a fun educational event for Moku Hawai`i, but a source of revenue for the participants and supporters.

Please show your aloha and support for the above businesses and individuals for keeping "He Mo`olelo ko ka Lei" a part of Hawai`i's calendar.

"He Mo`olelo ko ka Lei"

Entertainment
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
in
Downtown Hilo
at the
East Hawai`i Cultural Center
***********

The Lei Stand

Calendars

Greeting Cards

Books

Honoring
the late
Buddy Fo
2003 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Lifetime Achievement Award

Special Performances by Her Floral Majesty 2012 Lei Day Queen
Hokulani Fo

2012
Lei Day
Entertainers

Ben Kaili
2009 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Nominee

Bo Lozoff
2012 Big Island Music Awards winner

Cymber Lily Quinn
2012 Big Island Music Awards winner

Dennis & Christy Soares
2012 Big Island Music Awards winners * 2012 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Finalists

Howard Shapiro
Producer of See the Flame CD used by Amnesty International
and to
promote the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Kamana Senior Center
Japanese Dance Group
Providing education, recreation, and happiness to Hawai`i!

LeiManu
2012 Big Island Music Awards winners

Marsha Hee
Hula Dancer and Cultural / Environmental Educator

Tiana Malone
2012 Big Island Music Awards winner

Braddah Waltah Aipolani
1991 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Winner * 2012 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Finalist

Nona Beamer
Lei Day Queen
2005
Article Link: Celebrating the Hawaiian Lei with Song