Members of Kula Elementary School’s Fund-raising Committee are hosting a live auction and concert this Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Princeville Resort ballroom, featuring singer-songwriter Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame, Toni Childs, Todd Rundgren, and many others. The
Members of Kula Elementary School’s Fund-raising Committee are hosting a live auction and concert this Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Princeville Resort ballroom, featuring singer-songwriter Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame, Toni Childs, Todd Rundgren, and many others.
The artists, including Grammy-award winning slack-key guitarist Ken Emerson of Kalihiwai, will perform individually, and join forces for an all-star jam.
At a rehearsal at a Kilauea home yesterday, most of the players except Rundgren, a Princeville resident, were present. He is on tour on the Mainland. Michele Rundgren, his wife, joined the all-star cast that included Tris Imboden, drummer for Chicago, and many others. They are calling themselves “Kula Jam.” Emerson, fresh from attending the Grammy Awards gala and performing nearly nonstop in the San Francisco Bay Area after the Grammy festivities, came home to find he had to learn around 14 new songs in order to join the band, he said.
Tickets for the event, which is to raise funds for a new, permanent home for Kula Elementary School in Kilauea, are $50 and $75, and are on sale at Papaya’s Natural Foods in Hanalei and Kapa‘a, North Shore Pharmacy in Kilauea, Hanalei Surf Co., and at the Kula Elementary School front office.
For more information, please 828-1144.
