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Updated at 1:08 p.m., Saturday, March 7, 2009

Community work day ends with Kauai music fest

Advertiser Staff

KOKE'E, Kaua'i — A rain-or-shine community project at the YWCA of Kaua'i's Camp Sloggett that concludes Saturday will be followed Sunday with an all-day, live music festival.

The project will still accept volunteer workers for 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. shifts Saturday for stream-clearing and creating a rainforest native plant garden.

Volunteer workers can have lodging at Camp Sloggett and food and beverages are provided. The event is spearheaded by Na Ki'ai 'O Koke'e (the Stewards of Koke'e) and sponsored by the YWCA of Kaua'i and the County of Kaua'i.

Saturday volunteers should bring gardening gloves, boots and eye protection, as well as tools such as rakes, shovels, loppers, chainsaws and weedeaters. For details, contact Erik Coopersmith at 335-0710 or erik@islandunderground.net.

Entertainers from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday will include Roland Cazimero, KANU Ukes, Na 'Opio 'O Halele'a Tahitian Dancers, Papa'a Bay Boys, Shilo Pa, John Cruz, Sean Carillo, MalamaPonoAllStarz, The Happy Enchalatas, Kundala and Ta'ere Tia'i Polynesian Dancers.