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Partners in Time plan concert

Partners in Time, a group specializing in Near Eastern and fusion music, will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. March 23 at the Atherton Performing Arts Studio at Hawai‘i Public Radio, 738 Kaheka St.

The event coincides with the launching of Partners in Time’s newest CD, "Foreign Accent," which features music from the Balkans and the Near East, including Armenia, Turkey, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece. The group performs to the music of the oud, the Middle Eastern lute; tambura, the Bulgarian string instrument; dumbek and tupan (drums), guitar, accordion and bass.

Tickets: $15 for adults, $12.50 for HPR members, $10 for students. Reservations: 955-8821.

DHT looking for Victor, Victoria

Diamond Head Theatre will hold auditions for an actor to play the Julie Andrews title character in the Broadway musical "Victor/Victoria." Auditions will be held at 7 p.m. March 23 and 24 and 2 p.m. March 25 at the DHT Rehearsal Hall.

John Rampage, DHT artistic director, will direct and choreograph. Emmett Yoshioka will be musical conductor.

The show is based on an Oscar-nominated film, set in the 1930s, about an out-of-work soprano named Victoria Grant, who takes on the posture of Count Victor Grazinsky, Europe’s greatest female impersonator. Thus, it’s a hilarious and tuneful production about a woman pretending to be man pretending to be a woman. Information: 734-8763.

Artist to discuss Hawaiian tattoos

Keone Nunes will discuss traditional Hawaiian tattoo methods and how they tie in to culture, history and identity, at 3 p.m. April 3 at the Art Auditorium, Room 132, at the University of Hawai‘i.

A tattoo demonstration will be at 3 p.m. April 3 at The Halau, Center for Hawaiian Studies.

Nunes is a Hawaiian cultural resource educator from the Leeward Coast and a kumu hula, artist, Hawaiian language teacher and protocol leader for the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Hokule‘a.

Barbershop groups set for ‘Harmony’

The Sounds of Aloha Chorus will present "Political Harmony: A Musical Oxymoron" at 7:31 p.m. April 27 and 28 at the Hawai‘i Theatre.

The evening of barbershop quartet harmonies will also feature AT&T’s Diamond Head Theatre Shooting Stars, the Gas House Gang, Na Leo Lani and Sweet Adelines.

A concert at 7 p.m. by John McCreary, performing on the Hawai‘i Theatre’s Robert Morton Theatre Organ, precedes the concert.

Tickets: $22, $17 and $12. Reservations: 528-0506.

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