Lei Day will be all-day celebration at bandstand
Advertiser Staff
For the first time in 30 years, there won't be a Brothers Cazimero Lei Day concert May 1 at the Waikiki Shell.
Still, a colorful and festive daytime celebration, with music by the Royal Hawaiian Band, The Makaha Sons and Kapena, will be held at Kapi'olani Park Bandstand, in the
City's expanded May Day is Lei Day observance.
A Lei Queen will prevail and a lei contest also is part of the attraction:
9-9:50 a.m. Royal Hawaiian Band
10 a.m.-noon Investiture for 2008 Lei Queen and Court; presentation of Guinness World Record for World's Longest Fresh Floral/Greenery Lei (about 11:15 a.m.); opening of lei exhibit
11:30 a.m.-noon Music
Noon-12:50 p.m. The Makaha Sons
1-1:50 p.m. Na Wahine O Ka Hula Mai Ka Pu'uwai
2-2:50 p.m. Hula Halau Na 'Opio O Ko'olau
3-3:50 p.m. Kapena
4-5:30 p.m. Halau Hula 'O Hokulani
Also:
7:30-9 a.m. Lei contest entries can be submitted
10 a.m.-3 p.m. Ho'olaulea of Hawaiian crafts, with lei and food vendors
10 a.m.-noon Lei judging
12:30-5:30 p.m. Lei contest exhibition
Admission is free.
Details: www.co.honolulu.hi.us/parks/programs/leiday/