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The Kokua Festival is back and Jack Johnson is bringing Ziggy Marley, Taj Mahal, Jake Shimabukuro and Anuhea to the Waikiki Shell. To get your tickets first, you can help out the aina and join in on the Kokua Festival and Star 101.9 beach clean-ups going on around Oahu and Maui.

The cleanups will be February 13th from 9:00 am to 11:30 am and there will be three on Oahu, and one on Maui. Check out the locations below!

North Shore clean-up will take place at Malaekahana Beach Park, contact mjneal52@gmail.com for more information.

West Side clean-up will take place at Kea’au Beach Park in Makaha, contact kaimana@hanuhawaii.org for more information.

South Shore clean-up will take place at Sand Island State Park Beach, contact steven.mazur@gmail.com

Maui clean-up will take place at Kahalui Harbor Park by Maui Arts & Cultural Center, contact m_lane@hotmail.com.

Participants will get a special code for the pre-sale taking place Sunday and Monday, the 14th and 15th of February.

For those of you excited (you may need to be from Hawaii) that Jack Johnson’s Kokua Festival is returning after a year hiatus, you’ll be even more excited that Jack and the crew are back at the Mango Tree (studio) creating another album.

Those of you enrolled in Jack Johnson’s emailing list, you just got the word that Jack, Merlo, Adam and Zach are back in the studio recording an album. There’s no word on the release date of the album or no jam session leaks yet but you can rest assured that we’ll be the first to let you know.

Great stuff from the North Shore of Oahu! Let’s hope he releases the album or at least a few songs, right around the time of the Festival.

The Kokua Festival with return in 2010. After a two day two show concert in 2008 which saw the likes of Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds perform along side Jack Johnson, Jack and company went on a break. There was no concert in 2009 due to Jack touring and subsequently releasing his CD/DVD combo En Concert.

Well, the much anticipated Kokua Festival will be back on Oahu in 2010. April 23rd and 24th, the festival which benefits Jack Johnson’s Kokua Hawaii Foundation among various other environmental charities, will be back.

Although the concert lineup hasn’t been released yet, they’ll have quite a challenge beating what they’ve done in the past. We’ll let you know when they release the lineup and when tickets go on sale and where you can get them. Check back in our Kokua Festival section.

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You may have noticed the low volume of traffic today on the roads. For some running late it was a welcome relief. For others, namely those off the roads, it means less money, and in these economic times not good at all. But there is something more important going on.

Its the first of 17 furlough fridays for Hawaii state teachers, and more importantly our students started today. More than 13,000 teachers aren’t working today, and more than 170,000 public school students are without educational instruction as well.

Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are expected to head to the state capital today in Honolulu from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to protest the furlough days. Even Jack Johnson will be there to help with the cause and try and change the policy that has caused our students to have even less education during the course of this year. He was asked to speak publicly at the event being that he’s a strong proponent of youth education but instead he has chosen to play a few songs for the crowd that gathers.

Hopefully this can get resolved and they can at least have the furlough days on non-instructional days.

For those of you looking forward to Jack Johnson playing Hawaii Theatre in November for the release of this new CD/DVD “En Concert,” you don’t have to wait until the CD comes out to here the songs. You can listen to them free on the internet beforehand. And let me tell you, it’s gonna be a definite buy.

Available October 28th, 2009, you can listen to the full “En Concert” over here at Jack’s ilike.com site. For those of you who don’t know what iLike is, you might be interested in reading about Google creating music search engine and partnering with them.

Also, if you’re in support of ending furlough Fridays for Hawaii’s youth you may want to head down to the state capital to listen to Jack play a few for the kids.

Jack Johnson who recently announced a two day concert event at the Hawaii Theatre to promote his new CD DVD “En Concert” will be joining the fight at the Hawaii State Capital to try and stop “Furlough Fridays” at the states schools. Jack Johnson is a strong advocate for teaching the youth of today with his Kokua Foundation among other charitable activities.

The rally will occur Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at the State Capital in Honolulu. This will mark the first furlough day imposed by the government and the first day the students of Hawaii public schools won’t have teachers. The rally is put on by Hawaiieducationmatters.org and will be a rally to put a stop to the friday furloughs that will close schools on select Fridays in an effort to save money for the government.

The organization will be offering free bus rides from select schools to the capital to bring supporters to the protest. There will be speakers, events for keiki, and more, including Jack Johnson.

Jack Johnson is all set to play the Hawaii Theatre on November 13th and 14th this year. The North Shore son will play the Theatre to promote his new CD and DVD “En Concert.”

En Concert follows Jack Johnson on the European leg of his Sleep through the Static concert tour. Proceeds from the concert, sales of the CD and sales of the DVD will go to benefit Kokua Hawaii Foundation as well as the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundatio.

Johnson usually plays at the Waikiki Shell in early spring for the Kokua Festival. This year, due to his touring duties and what sounded like the need for a year off, residents of Oahu did not have the festival.

Kokua Hawaii Foundation members (with active memberships as of midnight Friday) will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets from 10 a.m. to noon. Members must have a copy of their membership ID along with a valid photo ID (drivers license).

Get there early, cause tickets are gonna go quick!

This years Kokua Festival, put on by Jack Johnson, was hyped to be the best yet. With local group Go Jimmy Go, Hawaii born Mason Jennings, Local Girl Paula Fuga, Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, and of course Jack Johson how could it not be good.

But in the 4 years that I’ve gone (missed one) this was the best one yet, both days. Yeah I was lucky enough to score tickets to both days of Kokua this year. Aside from the $7.75 beers, it was a winner. I’ve been waiting for a while to see Dave Matthews perform in Hawaii and to see him with Tim Reynolds was even better.

Each night was different, the first night Dave was a little more comical, and Jack played longer. Even Matt Costa, who was in town earlier in the week for a concert at Next Door in Honolulu, played a song with Jack. The second night Matt wasn’t there but Dave played some great songs, Bartender, Crash, and The Maker. Each night finished up with a Dave, Tim and Jack Jam session, some solor Jack songs, and of course, the 3 R’s with the whole group. That’s right, Dave Matthews was up on stage singing Reduce, Reuse, Recycle while Timmy Reynolds jammed. It was crazy!

The Eco Village was larger this year than previous years, either that or there was just more free stuff, and there was water stations this year for refilling water bottles (can’t remember, but I don’t think they had that last year.) In fact, this was the only place I’ve ever seen the line for water be longer than the line for beer!

All in all it was a great concert. I’m sure I’ll remember more, like if you road your bike to the concert you got free valet service and a separate line to go in.

UPDATE: You can check out our photo galleries from this years Kokua Festival at Kokua Festival 2008 Day 1 and Kokua Festival 2008 Day 2