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Updated at 2:59 p.m., Friday, September 21, 2007

Free concert Sunday for Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame

Advertiser Staff

A free Hawaiian music concert, at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Princess Ruth Ke'elikolani Auditorium on the Kamehameha Schools campus, will feature Ku'uipo Kumukahi, the Hall of Fame Serenaders and Pilioha, the group which won the 2006 Ka Himeni Contest.

The program marks the formal induction of seven Island entertainers to the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame. The inductees are:

  • Jesse Kalima, deceased, noted singer, 'ukulele wizard and leader of the Kalima Brothers group.

  • Don McDiarmid Sr., deceased, patriarch-founder of Hula Records 'ohana and a onetime bandleader and a composer.

  • Bill Kaiwa, a recording artist best known for "The Boy From Laupahoehoe."

  • Eddie Kamae, singer, composer, 'ukulele virtuoso and filmmaker, leader of Eddie Kamae & the Sons of Hawai'i and newly named 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow.

  • Peter Moon, 'ukulele player, singer, founding member of The Sunday Manoa and The Peter Moon Band.

  • Marlene Sai, singer, actress and recording artist and current president of the Hawai'i Academy of Recording Arts.

  • John Pi'ilani Watkins, deceased, veteran kumu hula of Hula Halau O Pi'ilani.