LIHU‘E — Slack-key guitar master Keola Beamer and twice Grammy-nominated Hawaiian songstress Raiatea Helm will perform at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center. Their recent collaborative CD, “Keola Beamer and Raiatea,” released in May,
LIHU‘E — Slack-key guitar master Keola Beamer and twice Grammy-nominated Hawaiian songstress Raiatea Helm will perform at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 27 at the Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center.
Their recent collaborative CD, “Keola Beamer and Raiatea,” released in May, reached number seven on the Billboard World Music Charts.
Beamer’s musical career of more than 30 years as a world-renowned guitarist has included being bestowed the title of master of Hawaiian slack-key.
At 25 Helm has received every major music award in the islands, as well as national recognition as a Billboard World Chart recording artist.
She made history in 2006 as Hawai‘i’s first solo female vocalist ever to receive a Grammy nomination for her sophomore CD, “Sweet and Lovely.” She repeated this achievement in 2008, with a second Grammy nomination for her third CD, “Hawaiian Blossom.”
Beamer is one of Hawai‘i’s premier singer-songwriters, arrangers, composers and masters of the Hawaiian slack-key guitar. Beamer has recorded and produced more than a dozen albums, winning numerous Na Hoku Hanohano Awards by the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts, and has appeared on “Sesame Street” and on NBC’s “Today Show.”
Pre-sale tickets are $25 general admission, and $20 for senior citizens and students. Tickets at the door are $35.
Tickets are available at the following outlets: Banana Patch Gallery, Hanapepe; Scotty’s Music, Kalaheo; Island Soap and Candle, Koloa; Kaua‘i Music and Sound, Kapa‘a; Hawaiian Music Huts, Wailua and Princeville, and Aloha ‘N Paradise, Waimea.
