Cool off with Jazz in the Forest
Cool off with Jazz in the Forest
Volcano Art Center’s Jazz in the Forest series continues with performances at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, featuring vocalist Lou Ann Gurney with Jean Pierre Thoma &the Jazztones at the center’s Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village.
Gurney has performed on the Big Island for many years, focusing on classic jazz standards. She has a bachelor’s degree in music and psychology, as well as a master’s degree in education of the gifted. Her CD, “Joy Ride,” was Na Hoku Hanohano nominated, and she has a second CD, “At The Hilo Farmers Market.”
The Wine and Beer Room will be open for attendees to enjoy before and after the concert. Tickets for both shows are $18 for VAC members, $20 for nonmembers.
Tickets are available online at volcanoartcenter.org/events/registration-workshops-classes, at VAC’s administration office in Volcano Village, VAC Gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park or at the door if they are not sold out.
For more information, call 967-8222.
HPA book club meeting May 17
The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Community Book Club will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Ko Kakou Student Union, Upper Campus.
Community Book Club meetings are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and participants are invited to bring a snack to share.
Lois Inman, Dyer Memorial librarian, and Jaime Johnson, Upper School English teacher, will lead the group. The current book selection is “The Sellout,” a New York Times and Los Angeles Times best-seller by Paul Beatty.
“The Sellout” is a biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
Beatty’s work also won the Man Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.
For more information, contact Jaime Johnson at jjohnson@hpa.edu.
Honomu mission hosting bon dance
Honomu Henjoji Mission invites the community to its annual bon dance, a joyous celebration starting at 5 p.m. June 10.
A hatsubon and obon service is at 5 p.m. followed by obon dance at 7 p.m. There will be live music featuring the Hilo Bon Dance Club.
Lots of delicious food and drinks will be sold in the concession stand, including saimin, chili with rice, hot dogs, shave ice, baked goods, bottled water, cold drinks, coffee and more.
The temple’s address is 28-1668 Old Mamalahoa Highway, off Highway 19 at the Akaka Falls turnoff, next to Mr. Ed’s Bakery.
For more information, contact Bishop Clark Watanabe at 963-6308.