THE LEFT LANE
Mele by moonlight

Advertiser Staff and News Services

Monday's live broadcast of the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards at 7:30 p.m on KFVE may leave you musically craving past winners doing it live.

That's where Bank of Hawaii's 2004 Moonlight Mele on the Lawn summer concert series comes in. Na Palapalai turns in traditional falsetto harmonies June 24. Na Leo Pilimehana celebrates Island music of the '70s and '80s on July 15. The Makaha Sons drop in for an evening of song and hula on Aug. 19.

All three shows are on the Bishop Museum lawn, just before sunset. Gates opens at 6 p.m. each night; concerts start at 7 p.m. The museum will sell food and drinks. Tickets at $15 (general), $10 (Bank of Hawaii customers and employees), and $5 (ages 4 to 12) benefit Bishop Museum. Call 847-3511 or visit www.bishopmuseum.org for more information.

Mountains for MD

He created a landscape painting based on his experience, and he's making prints of it to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. They honor his late friend Stacy Settles, who suffered from a muscular disease and died at 22, weighing less than 55 pounds. Steelsmith's already raised more than $3,500.

A limited-edition print goes to anyone who makes a donation of $75 or more to the MDA by May 29. Send checks payable to the Muscular Dystrophy Association to: Steelsmith, 150 Hamakua Drive, No. 800, Kailua, HI 96734. Be sure to include your shipping address.

Tying the not on Oprah

So, Kane'ohe couple Tom Aki and Elizabeth Lee did not win Oprah's Million-Dollar Wedding Giveaway, which aired yesterday and featured them as finalists in a contest to win the wedding of their dreams, but the 1976 Castle High School grads did win a dream honeymoon. "For us, it was a neat story, because here we were, high-school sweethearts, and the feelings were always there," said Lee, who reunited with Aki after years apart.