Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 6, 1 June 1990 — Folkfest restaging set for October in Hawaiʻi [ARTICLE]

Folkfest restaging set for October in Hawaiʻi

The Hawaiian festival staged last year at the Smithsonian's Festival of Amenean Folklife will be re-staged in Hawai'i this October. The craftsworkers and performers will regather including musicians, dancers, woodcarvers, sandal weavers, herbalists, and cooks. The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts will put on the entire show the visitors to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival saw last summer on The Mall in Washington, D.C. Everything from performers to the hula stage, the Portuguese forno (oven) and a Mom-and-Pop plantation store will be brought together on Magic Island at Ala Moana Beach Park, Honolulu. Satellite parking and a bus shuttle service will ease parking, Lynn Martin of the foundation says. Organizers are presently trying to arrange to bring the other three cultures whieh shared the limelight with Hawai'i at last year's festival to the islands for the restaging of the event. These include the North American French culture from Canada to Creole, Caribbean cultures and Native American cultures.