scott@islenet.UUCP (Scott Allen) (07/19/86)
GK's first Hawaiian appearance since last November occurred this evening
at the Neal Blaisdell Concert Hall. Some of the highlights:
He has his family with him this time, unlike the situation last year, before
his marriage. At that time his fiance was 13,000 miles away, and tonight he
repeated a song he had sung then lamenting the distance between them.
Perhaps his wife was in the audience -- but he did not say so. However,
his son Jason was on stage playing bass guitar with the band from Iowa.
Unlike last time, Peter Ostroushko, Chet Atkins, Johnny Gimble, etc., were
all absent -- and it was a real loss. Also, the program is very light on
Hawaiian music, unlike last time when there was the Sons of Hawaii, the
Kahe Leilani group from Kauai, and the Kamehameha Schools Choir of 68 plus
their hula group. Sigh.
Taj Mahal appeared a lot -- actually too much for my taste. But the high
point of the show was the report from Lake Wobegon which spoke of a group
of 25 Lutheran Ministers from the Norwegian Evangelical Synod who were
touring Minnesota in a seminar on "Rural Communities in Crisis". The group
itself has a bit of a crisis when they take a tour on an overloaded boat
in the lake and end up standing in 5 feet of water. They are saved by a
small boy 15 feet away from them who, standing in water up to his waist,
tells them, "It's not so deep over here." Moral -- don't make a lot of
other people's problems.
Before they go under, when the plywood platform of the pontoon craft
is level with the water, it appears from the shore that the ministers
are performing a "real miracle".
Unfortunately I will not see tomorrow's broadcast show (which is at
11:45 Hawaiian time) due to a mainland trip. Hope someone reports it
here.
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Scott Allen {ihnp4|dual|vortex}!islenet!scott
Honolulu, Hawaii 808-941-8500 808-947-3657 808-946-1919
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