Please come to Lani’s Luau for an Hawaiian hula show/fundraiser luau:

Saturday April 30, 2011, 4-8 PM

Delicious authentic dinner buffet:

Kalua Pig, Teriyaki Chicken, Steamed rice, Macaroni Salad, Lomi Lomi Salmon, Poi (upon request), Haupia, Pineapple Upside down cake, Hawaiian Punch/water

Dance performances by Hula Mai Ka Pu’uwai and Pacific Islanders Dance group.

Entertainment: Ukulele & slack key guitar by Jamie O’Brien & company, and Sierra Vista’s own Pat Tinnell & Company.

Cost: $25 for adults, $12.50 for children (12 and under)

Lani’s Luau is at 2532 S. Harrison Rd. (NW corner of Harrison and Golf Links).

Call Lani’s Luau for tickets at 520-886-5828 (LUAU) or 520-405-1212.

All proceeds go to Lani’s Luau to pay off their debt from rental of kitchen equipment.

One of my previous blogs on the fundraising efforts (click here). Please kokua (help).

UPDATE: This terrific luau raised over $7,500 and now Lani’s Luau only owes about $250 to Arizona Restaurant Supply. Mahalo plenty (as we say back home) to all you participated to “save” Lani’s Luau!

Aloha! A Ho’omana Hula Show Luau is coming up on Sunday, September 6 at 5 p.m. at the Inn Suites Hotel Copper room, 475 N. Granada Ave, Tucson. Luau tickets are only $20 for adults, $10 (for kids 10 and under).

luau poster

This luau is being put on by Leiola Galla (a kumu/instructor originally from Oahu) and her Leiola Hula Halau, with a pre-luau workshop on September 4-6 on hula and Tahitian dancing, featuring guest artists Tarita and Gerard Tehotu. Leiola has studied under hula masters Bella Richards, George Na`ope (founder of The Merrie Monarch Festival “hula olympics”), John Pi`ilani Watkins, Edna Aguil, Edith Kanakaole, Johnny Lum Ho, and Leilani Sharpe Mendes.

I hear that the luau food is being catered by Leiola’s husband Dino who has helped out cooking at my favorite Hawaiian restaurant, Lani’s Luau at 2532 S. Harrison Road out east. I blogged about Hawaii Island-born Leilani Dowling and her ono (delicious) food back in June.

For luau tickets call 520-777-5134 or write to leiolahulahalau@gmail.com.