Waikiki Beach Walk launches 'Sunday Showcase'
By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
Waikiki Beach Walk, the emerging hub of Hawaiian entertainment, dining and shopping along the Lewers Street corridor, will kick off a new "Sunday Showcase" attraction starting April 6. This will complement a couple of ongoing activities already in place, meaning locals and visitors alike have yet another destination for freebies.
The new weekly program, part of Outrigger's Nā Mele No Na Pua-Music for the Generations Hawaiian music heritage program, will assemble familiar and popular performers and hula halau, along with budding musicians, in an early evening program, from 5 to 6 p.m. Sundays, at the Plaza Stage.
The schedule for April:
The other regular series, till now from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on the final Sunday of the month at the Grand Lanai of the Embassy Suites Waikiki Beach Walk, will shift from a monthly to a bi-monthly happening, beginning in April.
The tentative schedule:
Waikiki Beach Walk also presents a free weekly show, Ku Ha'aheo (To Cherish With Pride), from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Plaza Stage, and a Na Mele No Na Pua Kama'aina concert from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sundays at the Grand Lanai of the Embassy Suites.
Valet parking ($6) for four hours is available at the Embassy Suites (201 Beachwalk) and the Wyndham Vacation Ownership (227 Lewers St.) with any same-day purchase from a Waikiki Beach Walk merchant.
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