#Hawaii music festival free#
You can also learn about canoe culture while paddling the Columbia River (from the Gleason Boat Ramp in Portland), or go on a walking tour of Hawaiian history at Fort Vancouver’s Kanaka Village, guided by park ranger and archaeologist Bob Cromwell.Īll are welcome to a Thursday night community party at Groove Nation featuring local dancers and musicians, but you still must register and get a free ticket via Among the workshop teachers are such Hawaiian stars as musicians Robert Cazimero, Kuana Torres Kahale and Kamakakehau Fernandez fashion designer and choreographer Manaola Lim Yap lei artisan Rae Pacheco master carver Nalu Andrade and jewelry maker Okashi Orian. Check the website to see if space is still available to learn different styles and levels of hula, hula choreography, ukulele, or jewelry and lei making. The festival’s first two days - today and Friday - are devoted to hula and craft workshops that have moved, this year, from Clark College to the Groove Nation dance studio at 3000 Columbia House Blvd., Suite 107. “We want to make sure it stays a safe and healthy event that people feel good about coming to,” he said. This year, Holt said, event planners decided it was time to institute some limits.
Vancouver’s so-called “Hawaiian festival” has grown into a public dance party that has packed in as many as 30,000 people in a weekend. “A lot of people coming here are people you can only see on TV, even in Hawaii,” Holt said.Īnother reason for tickets, Holt added, is security and sanity in the park. It has developed a reputation that even people in Hawaii are talking about lately. The musicians, crafters and teachers who come here to dance hula, play music, demonstrate Indigenous arts and crafts and teach Hawaiian history are some of the most esteemed experts in the world, said Holt, executive director of the Four Days festival. Children 10 and younger are still free, but must register online. Tickets start at $7 for a single-day pass. That’s partly why Vancouver’s prized annual “Four Days of Aloha” festival, which was free for 19 years running, has finally made the difficult decision to require tickets and charge admission. The “aloha spirit” of Hawaii is all about warmth, friendliness and inclusion, according to Kaloku Holt.īut it takes a lot more than that to operate a cultural foundation and stage a four-day festival that draws top entertainers and educators from overseas, along with tens of thousands of local visitors.
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