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Updated at 4:15 p.m., Monday, January 5, 2009

No Kokua Festival for 2009

Advertiser Staff

Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival, which has become a staple annual entertainment event in Honolulu, will not return this year for what would have been its sixth consecutive year.

According to a statement released this morning by the Kokua Foundation, the organizers of the festival "have decided to take a break."

The inaugural Kokua Festival, which first took place in 2003, features pop singer and North Shore resident Johnson as its headliner, as well as a long list of other performers both local and national.

Organizers have not said whether the festival will resume next year.