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Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Lahaina Cannery Mall
August 18, 2005
[DANCE/MUSIC] The International Cultural Festival means that people from all around Maui will be coming together and performing music and dance from different world cultures. The performers are diverse in age as well as style and everyone, no matter how young or old, will enjoy these gathered talents. The festival will begin with the Watanabe Taiko Drummers, a family who each have more than 20 years experience making music. This group began five generations ago with founder Tomijiro Watanabe who played in his village in the early 1900s. Since then the tradition has continued and the group has continued playing the old-time songs as well as their original music, which has been written over the past 100 years. Neto Peraza (pictured) will be the final performance of the show, playing the guitar with South American flare. Peraza has been playing for over 30 years and continues to entertain, performing traditional Flamenco style as well as Latin dance and pop. Over the course of two days many musicians, dance academies, and troupes of Tahitian, Japanese, and Hula dancers, will be honoring their cultures by representing the originality of each, performing side by side. For more info, call 661-5304. [GABRIELLE POCCIA]