No alcohol, outside food, or beverage will be permitted. Mark your calendars and come shell-ebrate the 40th anniversary of the Hawaiian Slack Key Festival – Waikiki Style! Since 1982 when the festival began, incredible musicians have graced the stage filling the air with exceptional music and keeping the 190+ year old art form alive and cherished!īring your ʻohana to the Waikīkī Aquarium on Saturday, Augfor a night to remember. $10 Donation to benefit the Waikiki Aquarium Admission is free.40th Annual Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival Sunday at Maui Tropical Plantation in Waikapu. The Seed to Cup Coffee Festival is presented from 9 a.m. Uyetake will also perform on July 30 as part of the free Maui Jazz & Blues Festival series at the Ocean Vodka Organic Farm. King and Muddy Waters’ blues, and some old rock songs.” He’s previously teamed a few times with Dupio, and for the coffee festival, “we’ll play straight-ahead blues, anything from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton to B.B. An ukulele teacher at Kalama Intermediate School, he plays at Kimo’s these days. Performing on Maui for more than four decades, Uyetake spent years playing with Glenn Kakugawa as the duo Ben and Glenn. “I admired him when I was a kid in high school and college, when he was playing the contemporary rock and blues of the time in the late ’70s.” “He’s a great guitar player,” Uyetake said. A versatile guitarist, accomplished across genres, especially blues and jazz, Uyetake remembers being impressed with Dupio’s musicianship while living in Hilo. Performing as the Blues Braddas, Benny Uyetake will team with Hoku winner Larry Dupio from Hawaii island at 2 p.m. Lahela Lee Park, the 2022 Carmen Hulu Lindsey Leo Ha’iha’i Falsetto Contest winner, will sing at 12:30 p.m., while the female Hawaiian music trio Ahumanu play from 1:10 to 1:50 p.m. until noon, followed by the Zenshin Daiko Drummers. Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning Hawaiian slack key guitarist Kevin Brown will play from 11:10 a.m. Lei’ohu Ryder will give a Hawaiian blessing at 10:05 a.m., and CJ Boom Helekahi performs at 10:20 a.m. “They will be making ‘tulips,’ fancy little designs in the coffee,” said Matichyn.Īs part of the festival, music will be presented during the day, opening with Namaka Pauole at 9:30 a.m., and closing with the Maui Jazz & Blues Festival Band at 2:45 p.m. Hawaii island musician Larry Dupio to perform at the Seed to Cup Coffee Festival, one of the many acts to grace the stage during the Waikapu event on Sunday. It will be followed by the Barista Throwdown from 1:30 to 3 p.m., hosted by the Akamai Coffee Co., celebrating the craft of Maui’s baristas. The public will be offered samples and the opportunity to vote for their favorite roast.Ī Mocktail Coffee Demonstration at 1 p.m., hosted by the staff of Mala Ocean Tavern, will demonstrate how to make nonalcoholic cocktails with coffee. will spotlight Maui’s roasting companies, which will roast the same coffee provide by Maui Grown Coffee. by Makiko Nukui about how to professionally evaluate coffee. The festival will open with a demonstration at 9:30 a.m. Organizations, farmers and vendors participating include the Maui Coffee Association, Kupa’a Farms, the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Maui Coffee Academy, Maui Grown Coffee from Kaanapali, Maui Oma Coffee Roasting Co., Maui Mountain Coffee, Olinda Organic Farm, Bad Ass Coffee Company, Lokelani Burlap Bags and Aina Brands. Years ago, we were selling very little Maui coffee, and now we sell more Maui coffee than Kona coffee.” Rob Lind of Olinda Organic Farm has been winning a lot. “Maui coffee has been winning some of the top prizes in state competitions. “It’s becoming a bigger and bigger deal,” said Matichyn. The trees were then introduced to locations around the islands. In 1825, Chief Boki Kama’ule’ule, the governor of Oahu, acquired coffee plants in Rio de Janeiro while sailing aboard a British naval ship and brought them back to the islands, where they flourished in Manoa Valley, according to Maui Coffee Co. Now grown on six islands in the state, coffee was first brought to the Hawaiian islands in 1817, but the early plantings didn’t succeed, according to the Hawaii Coffee Association. One of the vendors who will participate on Sunday, Matichyn has been involved in the Maui coffee industry for more than 40 years. A lot of people will be doing demonstrations.” “The whole idea is to educate people and promote coffee. “It’s a reach out to the community to let them know what’s happening with agriculture and coffee in particular,” explained Nicky “Beans” Matichyn of Maui Coffee Roasters. The annual festival was inaugurated in 2017 to help promote Maui coffee and bridge the gap between farmers and baristas.
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