Molokai Makahiki opens
Molokai Ranch is defending champion of Saturday's 17th Molokai Makahiki at Kaunakaki Park. Kumu hula John Kaimikaua and Halau Hula O Kukunaokala open the event, featuring Hawaiian games 8 a.m. to noon, and entertainment from noon to 4 p.m.Performers include Gary Haleamau, David Kahiapo, Mike Ka'awa, BB Shawn Ishimoto, Milton Lau, Bla Pahinui, Martin Pahinui and Matt Swalinkavich -- playing individually, and as the Native Hawaiian Band. Admission is free. Call 553-3673 on Molokai.
Sign up at 7 a.m. for six- to 10-member teams competing in no'a pahe'e (pebble pitching), 'o'o ihe (spear throwing), pa 'uma (standing wrist wrestling), uma (hand wrestling), ulu maika (bowling), hukihuki (tug of war) and pohaku ho'oikaika (stone lifting).
Sitar master performs at Orvis
Ustad Shuujaat Husain Khan, hailed by critics as a sitar virtuoso, performs at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Orvis Auditorium at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.Tickets to the concert, with Abhiman Kaushal on tabla, are $30 reserved, $20 general and $15 for students. They are available at UH Campus Center, Down to Earth, Harry's Music, Easy Music Center, Mango's in Kailua and Zaffron restaurant.
Hailing from a musical family in India, Khan was 3 when he started practicing on a specially made sitar. He was performing classical Indian music by the time he was 6.
The Times of India has written of Khan: "The sitar is his instrument of speech, of feeling, of expression and creation." His fingers, the Times said, "make the strings coo like a dove."
Khan has released 28 albums internationally and performs regularly at music festivals in India. Since 1974, he has toured worldwide, performing at New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and London's Royal Albert Hall. He also performed a sold-out show at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Theatre last May. For information, call 262-6077.
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