 This week, Pakele Live! with Tony Solis is holding a special show to help bring awareness to the plight of Janell Araki from Precision Sound here in Hawai’i. Janell has been living with diabetes since childhood. She persevered, eventually marrying, having children, becoming a business woman – in short, just living her life. However, in late 2008 she was diagnosed with kidney failure, and thus began a series of dialysis treatments and many unforeseen complications, the worst of which was the onset of an incurable condition called Calciphylaxis (For more info: http://www.mayoclinic.org/calciphylaxis/). This rare condition has a survival rate of one to five years, but, if detected and treated early in its course, the survival can be much longer.
Performing at this special Pakele Live! event will be Vaihi (Aaron Ka`onohi, Bruce Nalua`i, Piko Lakatani, and Sam Langi, Jr.) - a group well known for their harmonies, humor, and always fun shows, and Kupaoa (Kellen Paik and Lihau Hannahs) – the supremely talented singer-songwriters whose debut album “Pili O Ke Ao” is on the preliminary ballot for the 2009 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards! (There will be hula, too!)
Please join us for this special event on Thursday April 16 from 6-8 p.m. HST at the Pakele Lounge in the Ala Moana Hotel (410 Atkinson Dr., Honolulu). It’s free, all ages are welcome, there’s free parking next door at Ala Moana Shopping Center, and drinks and pupus are available for purchase.
If you can’t make it in person, watch online at http://www.pakelelive.com/
Those in Japan can watch at http://www.j-wave.co.jp/
Please Note! Because Janell’s medical insurance has run out, friends and family are also holding a special all-star fundraiser concert to help defray the ongoing medical costs. Here’s some info!
SUNDAY MAY 3, 2009
The WATERFRONT
At the Aloha Tower Marketplace (the old Kapono’s)
2: 00 pm - 10:00 pm
TICKETS $20
(Ages 12 and under are free)
PERFORMANCES BY
NA LEO
WELDON KEKAU‘OHA
KAPENA
VAIHI
KUPAOA
MAUNA LUA
and MORE...
For ticket information or questions regarding the fundraiser, please call Kahaku Reimann at (808) 864-1638 or Darren Araki at (808) 479-0606.
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Posted - 04/16/2009 : 11:54:48 AM
