Jim "Kimo" West... And The Ho-Ho-Ho Hawaiian Holiday

From December 13, 2015 7:00 pm until December 13, 2015 10:00 pm

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JIM "KIMO" WEST... AND THE HO-HO-HO HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY.

JIM 'KIMO' WEST and his CHRISTMAS LUAU. The Christmas Show packed with dancers, singers and slack key pickers and maybe a ukulele fandango and more, Much More.

Roast Pig & pale poi with Spam will be discussed but not on the fare for this night.

Award-winnning slack key guitarist, Jim "Kimo" West brings his annual Holiday Slack Key Show to The Coffee Gallery Backstage. Drawing on material from his two acclaimed holiday CD's, Kimo's slack key artistry brings the essence of the islands to holiday classics, traditional Hawaiian folk music and hapa haole standards.

Joining Kimo will be vocalist Diana Tanaka and traditional hula dancers. Lots of Christmas in the islands guests coming up.

Kimo is regarded as one of the world's foremost "ki ho'alu" or Hawaiian "slack key" guitar artists. This warm and engaging acoustic guitar style has it's roots in 1840's Hawaii, when Mexican vaqueros first brought guitars to the Big Island of Hawaii. If you saw the Oscar-winning film, "The Decendants" you have experienced this great acoustic guitar tradition.

Jim "Kimo" West is best known as long-time guitarist for the world's most successful musical comedy artist, "Weird Al" Yankovic. Kimo's career has seen three Grammy's, many gold and platinum awards and most recently a Billboard #1 CD with their latest release, "Mandatory Fun" as well as many national tours and TV appearances such as the Tonight Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The View , Craig Ferguson, Conan O?Brien and many more.

Kimo is a winner of the Hawaii Music Awards and two-time Na Hoku Hanohano (the Hawaiian 'Grammy') nominee. He is also a two-time winner of the LA Treasures Award for his efforts in keeping this important acoustic guitar tradition alive.

"For those burned out on hearing the same Christmas tunes every year, West has provided a radiant alternative. "Jingle Bell Rock" is suitably upbeat but magical. West has revived the sense of wonder which once fueled the track....given the slack-key guitar treatment, it sounds fresh and alive. "Sleigh Ride" swings from a spellbinding web of instrumental wizardry. "Away in a Manger" is turned into a fragile lullaby. One can imagine the snowflakes gradually falling in the stunningly beautiful "The Christmas Song." West's playing throughout the CD is enchanting and atmospheric, capturing the wintry beauty of the holiday like few have done in the last couple of decades"