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Picks of the WeekFriday (Oct. 23), 7:30 pm, Castle Theater, MACC, Kahului, $12/$22/$32Since Dervish's formation in 1989, this traditional Irish group has time and again reaffirmed themselves as "a national jewel of Ireland." In 1993, after the release of their debut album, Harmony Hill, Dervish was invited by the Clintons to perform at the White House's St. Patrick's Day party, and was the first Irish band to play Rio's mega-festival "Rock in Rio" (in 2001, before an audience estimated at 240,000). Awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Sligo in 2004 by the Sligo City Council, the band was later invited by Irish Prime minister Bertie Ahern to accompany nearly "the entire Irish government" on a 2006 trade mission to China—the largest of its kind to date for Ireland—and perform for Chinese government officials. Now, it's Maui's turn to enjoy Michale Holmes on bouzouki (a stringed-instrument with a pear-shaped body, similar to a mandolin and of the "long neck lute" family), Cathy Jordan on vocals, bodhrán (Irish frame drum) and bones (no Halloween trick, "bones" are literally two bones played for percussion, typically a goat's ribs or lower leg bones), Liam Kelly on flute and whistles, Brian McDonagh on mandola (violin is to viola as mandolin is to mandola), Shane Mitchell on accordion and Tom Morrow on fiddle. 242-7469, www.mauiarts.org |
Picks of the Week 2Friday (Oct. 23), 9pm-2am, The Cellar 744, LahainaThere may be three of them (all in the music business, no less), but neither the Mark Farina of Australia or the Mark Farina of Italy holds a candle to the United States' very own. Born in Chicago, the very home of house music—during the second spring after the Summer of Love (by which I mean, the first one in 1967, in San Francisco, not the one referred to as the "second" in the U.K., a period between 1988 and 1989 heralded as acid house's season of maturation)—Mark Farina was in his mid-to-late teens when the genre hit full swing, emerging from his hometown's underground club scene. Today, Farina is one of the genre's biggest names, and describes himself as a "modern day traveling minstrel." Touting 100 shows per year since the end of his Mushroom Jazz club night in San Francisco, Farina, amidst world travels, released the six-volume Mushroom Jazz series, a body of work that exemplifies his trademark acid jazz-meets-urban beats style. He'll hit Maui this Friday, in a show with enough oomph to make DJ Dynasty Handbag squeal "Ooo, weee!" and get T'Shane to shut-up and dance. 877-71-GROOV, www.groovetickets.com |
Picks of the Week 3Fri./Sat. (Oct. 23/24), 7:30pm & Sun. (Oct. 25), 2pm, Steppingstone Playhouse, Queen Kaahumanu Center, Kahului, $28/$25/$22In the early 1930s, Christopher Isherwood penned the semi-autobiographical novel, Goodbye Berlin. In 1951, John Van Druten adapted Isherwood's work into the play, I Am Camera, which later inspired Cabaret—the musical that hit Broadway in 1966, followed by the silver screen in 1972 (yep, the very one that earned Liza Minelli an Oscar for Best Actress and Best Director for Bob Fosse). Set during the Nazi's rise to power in 1931, the Weimar Republic's Kit Kat Klub provides seedy backdrop for the two relationships examined. The primary romance lies between cabaret girl Sally Bowles (Minelli's role, played locally by Lynnea Barry), and her American lover, Cliff Bradshaw (a writer, recently-arrived in Germany, in search of inspiration), while the secondary relationship looks at the inevitably-doomed courting of boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider by Herr Shultz, an elderly Jewish fruit vendor. Directed by Jonathan Lehman, our Maui rendition (opening this Friday and running through November 15) promises more decadent debauchery than theatergoers familiar with the piece might be used to. As such, this already adult-themed production definitely remains for the 18 and over crowd only. 875-4367, www.proartspacific.com |
Picks of the Week 4Saturday (Oct. 24), 3-6pm, Birken & Bailey's Too, KiheiThe National Retail Federation (NRF), in their 2009 Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey conduced by BIGresearch, reports that 29.6% of consumers say the economy has "affected spending plans" for their Halloween celebrations this year and 2.4% are nixing celebrations altogether. Of those still partaking in All Hallows Eve activities, on average, each over-18 individual is expected spend $56.31 (down $10.23 from last year)—of which, $20.75 is estimated to be spent on costumes, including those for children and pets. The report gets really analytical when they announce the top ten costumes, of this forthcoming season, for adults, children and pets. The rundown for the lattermost from first to last: Pumpkin, Devil, Bowties/Fancy Collars, Witch, Superdog/Supercat, Princess, Bat, Dog (not quite sure about that one, even if it's a cat costume), Angel and Bee. Now that I've warned you, you can make your pooch proud by either avoiding the humdrum altogether, or ensuring you're on the cutting edge the of what's popular at the Birken & Bailey's Too 2nd Annual Howl-o-ween Party featuring a pet parade at 4pm and a costume contest at 5pm. 875-9805. |
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