The holiday season is here and Kauai Sings will be spreading Yultide cheer on Saturday during the Kauai Sings Christmas program to benefit Malama Pono Health Services. The seventh annual performance, the second-biggest fundraiser of the year for Malama Pono
The holiday season is here and Kauai Sings will be spreading Yultide cheer on Saturday during the Kauai Sings Christmas program to benefit Malama Pono Health Services.
The seventh annual performance, the second-biggest fundraiser of the year for Malama Pono and the largest one for Kauai Sings, will be held at 7 p.m. at the Kilohana Luau Pavilion.
“It’s a really easy way to come together and make a difference,” Malama Pono’s Executive Director Michael Sorensen said. “While the event is about enjoying the holiday season, it also gives us an opportunity to find out who in the community cares about positive sexual health, HIV and AIDS, because they can be very difficult issues to talk about.”
This year’s musical line up will include holiday classics that complement the theme, “Christmas from the Heart.”
“We really just want it to include crowd-pleasing songs that people can sing along with, if they want to,” said Jason Blake, a former Malama Pono Health Services board member and the founder of Kauai Sings.
Blake, who spearheaded efforts to create the first Kauai Sings Christmas program in 2006, said the fundraiser for Malama Pono is just as important as it was seven years ago, when he and other board members were struggling to fund the nonprofit programs amid declining health care funding from state and federal agencies.
A total of $7,600 was raised from last year’s Kauai Sings Christmas program.
This year’s fundraising goal is nearly double that amount at $15,000.
Food on Saturday will be catered through Bobby V’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant in Kapaa.
Tickets can be purchased at the event for $30 or $25 in advance.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Malama Pono Health Services http://malama-pono.org/kauai-sings or call 246-9577.
