Also appearing is Hoku Award-winning Karen Keawehawaii, hula dancer Tracie Farias, baritone Kaipo Hale, and Auntie Irmgard Aluli and her trio Puamana.

Tickets are $25 to $32 and available at the Hawaii Theatre box office, 1130 Bethel St. For information and reservations call 528-0506.

The fireworks display is part of the 17th annual Pan Pacific Festival-Matsuri, which continues through Sunday.

Traditional Japanese hand-held fireworks carried in bamboo containers are pointed at the sky.

When lighted, the fireworks shoot upward, spread in a wide circle before raining toward the ground. The tradition began 400 years ago among adolescents in the East Mikawa region of Japan to celebrate passage into adulthood.

Matsuri events this weekend include a festival parade beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at Ala Moana Park and routing to Kapiolani Park along Kalakaua Avenue.

For more information, call 924-8804.

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