Live from the Lawn at the Hawai’i State Art Museum experience a free concert celebrating the Best Hawaiian Music Grammy® Award Nominees for 2009. The Stars will be out from 6PM to 9PM on Friday January 8 2010 at a venue that is one of the very best places to enjoy music here in Honolulu. An oasis of tranquility on the edge of the financial district adjacent to the hubbub of the State Capitol and the Historic traditions of the Iolani Palace, the lawn of what was once the Armed Forces YMCA and is now the Hawai’i State Art Museum (250 South Hotel Street), is the perfect place to flake out on a beach mat or lawn chair while listening to music.
Though all of the Music from The Lawn Concerts have featured a Galaxy of Top Performers, this particular event has a rare cachet, featuring Grammy® Nominees, stars as illustrious as Tia Carrere and Daniel Ho will play the Lawn for the first time, Amy Hanaiali’i and friends, her band (Steve Jones, Darryl Pellegrini, Chino Montero, Jeff Peterson), as well as ‘Slack Key Masters’ George Kahumoku, Sonny Lim, Dennis Kamakahi, Owana Salazar, and Keoki Kahumoku, and a repeat appearance by Jeff Peterson, an artist on his own yet ever willing even eager to work/play with other talented musicians.
A concert featuring this much talent should cost plenty of green but instead it is FREE courtesy of the Friends of the Hawai’i State Art Museum (HISAM), the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, with support from the LEF Foundation, the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, Outrigger Hotels & Resorts, Clear Channel Communications, and it is produced by the ever energetic Tim Bostock Productions.
No need to go hungry during the concert there will be ONO Grinds from Hale Kealoha Ai Pono, India Café, Le Crepe Café, and Downtown at HiSam. Quench your thirst with organic juices & sorbet from Land of Organica, and grind down on popcorn by Kettle Corn Hawaii.
The Hawai’i State Art Museum is an easy walk from just about everywhere in urban Honolulu and it is straddled by bus stops serving the entire island but for those who persist in driving a vehicle scope out directions & parking info via www.hawauu.gov/sfca .
Toka Media will be filming throughout the event and the concert, producing a DVD which will be streamed via the ‘web.’ The Grammy Concert kicks off 2010′s “Live From the Lawn” Concert Series, which most often land on the First Friday of each Month, a perfectly good reason to visit the many galleries/shops/restaurants/bars in the Arts District both before and after the event.