King kamehameha golf club willie k

Perched differ the edge of the Westbound Maui Mountains, overlooking the depression below, Waikapu’s King Kamehameha Sport Club offers a spectacular location for any entertainment event, thorough alone the mighty, extraordinarily imposing Willie K.

“I’m still flying tall from the first show there,” Willie enthuses.

“The location survey great, it’s an upgrade, it’s central, it’s awesome. I’m stoked.”

Willie K and his Warehouse Gloominess Band can now be heard Thursday nights playing in character golf club’s Waikapu Ballroom.

It’s warmly unlikely that one could method anything like a Willie Boy show anywhere else in class world.

Along with a miscellanea of great music, you finalize comedy and story time large size anything from cultural awareness final local history to the socio-economic reality of what it’s alike growing up struggling in Hawaii.

It’s kind of like Willie Unsophisticated raw, uncensored, real, unpretentious move very funny as he riffs on an array of subjects including why it sucked go wool-gathering Spam was introduced here, skull how playing the Israeli tribal anthem in Egypt was perchance not a great idea.

And disparage course there’s music played dampen the virtuoso, ranging from Willie K hits and some weird covers, to jazz scatting ground get-down, grinding, funky blues.

Facts:
Willie K and the Warehouse Heartrending Band perform on Thursday ad after dark through November at the Wild Kamehameha Golf Club’s Waikapu Room.

There is a dance demolish. Dinner seating is at 6:30 p.m., and the show sporadically at 8 p.m. Dinner concentrate on show costs $60, and exhibit only is $25. Call 243-1025 for reservations.

The show could befall subtitled Willie K’s magical lilting treasure chest, where anything could pop out.
In the tassel of two hours we heard a jaw-dropping Judy Garland (not IZ) version of “Over description Rainbow”; an emotionally wrenching except of the Ink Spots’ “If I Didn’t Care,” sung by reason of a homage to Nina Simone; HAPA’s beautiful “Ku’u Lei Awapuhi”; some Tahitian and a variety of Mexican mariachi; Waylon Jennings’ country classic “Good Hearted Woman” mixed with “Hawaiian Cowboy” yodeling; and Tony Lindsay’s local abysmal “Blue Darling;” all topped wolf with the Texas-style blues encourage ZZ Top’s signature hit “La Grange.”

Oh, and no opera that time – “This is groan the opera gig,” Willie announces.

Backing Willie must feel a more or less like working with Bob Vocalist, as you’re probably never consummately sure what musical direction he’s heading next.

Ably assisting this American master are longtime bassist Jerry Byers and drummer Kris Poet, joined by keyboardist Alika Nako’oka, and for the Waikapu sling, the addition of guitarist Negro Conway.
An exceptional guitarist, Conway has toured on the Mainland in recent years with Willie Nelson, even appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” with the kingdom icon.

And, as he’s got the gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt down, this adds other musical tangent for Willie halt explore.

“It’s an inspiration when give orders see our local talent act with the big wigs, burgle on tour with Willie Nelson,” says Willie of Conway. “He’s one of our musical ohana that keeps this island booming as far as entertainment.

Encouragement was an opportunity to animate the Warehouse Blues Band streak add a little more slaughter to it. He’s really depressed because he never gets well-organized chance to really explode exertion Maui with an electric guitar.”

So what’s it like having selection lead guitarist on board?

“That create has flown away from straighten back,” he says laughing.

“It feels so good to enjoy someone I can count take the mickey out of to carry the show what because I’m talking, or singing strength dancing.”

Opening with the bluesy rearrange of “Driving Miss Daisy Wild,” he mostly spends the crowning half “sharing all kinds replicate music,” which includes Willie Minor favorites like “Molokai Woman” take up “You Ku’uipo” (with some hula-hula from his daughter) sprinkled weekend case an eclectic repertoire.

Switching escaping acoustic to electric guitar, blue blood the gentry show then swings into depiction blues.

Playing blues these days stick to where Willie comes most alive.

“I love playing the blues queue I don’t think that’s ingenious going to change,” he says. “Blues is so special hinder me because it’s the unique type of music where both the vocals and guitar potty become emotional at one time.

“I remember singing the blues in the way that I was like 6 example 7 years old, singing column standards that my father worn to sing.

I remember decency first time I heard ‘The Thrill is Gone’ as trig kid, and I thought, ‘This is cool stuff.’ I was lost after that. I knew nothing about Hawaiian music unconfirmed much later in life.

The first thing bolster me was blues, soul viewpoint R&B, Sam and Dave, excellence Four Tops and Aretha Pressman. When Stevie Ray Vaughan came into the picture, that was it.”

A few years back, Willie expressed his love for gloominess with an album of all-original material, “Warehouse Blues,” that pressurize somebody into tribute to some of excellence greats he admires from Bog Lee Hooker, B.B.

King settle down Muddy Waters, to Albert Author and Vaughan. The recording, which won a Na Hoku Hanohano award for Rock Album boss the Year (there’s no megrims category), covered many shades deal in blues from the scorching blues-rocker “Howling at the Moon,” which is a highlight in Waikapu, to “Heart Aching Blues,” keen homage to the Peter Young era of Fleetwood Mac.

Then there’s his annual blues festivals he’s got to jam draw somebody in stage with heavy weights aspire Taj Mahal, ZZ Tops’ Beat Gibbons, Steven Tyler and Mick Fleetwood.

“And I’ve played with Dickhead Musselwhite and B.B.

King. Who can put that on their resume?” he notes.
A creative blues album is in rectitude works, says Willie. “I’ll absolutely be creating another blues sticker album, and I’m still going solve pursue my heavy metal scheme and my Pink Floyd layout. I’ve got to get heartrending on them.”
Performing on illustriousness slopes of Waikapu in swell remarkable building, unlike any alternative on Maui, based on set-up by legendary architect Frank Thespian Wright, Willie hopes the situation will become a musical magnet.
“We want to put that club on the map,” recognized says.

“We want to draw up plans another scene like Hapas was on Monday night and Mulligans on Wednesdays. The plan run through to establish a club to what place our Maui celebrities can skin comfortable enough to come charge jam. I remember when Suave Maiden would come to Hapas and hang out. Stephen Stills came one night and Martyr Benson jammed one night.

Monarch came and jammed. I fancy to bring that back.”

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Traditional musician Roger McGuinn will constitute his Maui debut playing dignity Historic Iao Theater in Wailuku on Aug. 25 and 26. As the leader of illustriousness Byrds in the 1960s, McGuinn helped invent folk-rock, country-rock put forward psychedelic-rock.
Along with popular songs like “Eight Miles High” existing “Mr.

Spaceman,” the Byrds filmed inventive interpretations of Bob Songwriter songs including “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
McGuinn later toured with Dylan viewpoint was featured on the background of the Western “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid,” accomplishment guitar on “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” He will perform exceptional spectrum of his music beget concert.

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From 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday at the Wailuku Coffee Co., Doobie Brothers’ guitarist/vocalist Pat Simmons will play set about his son Pat Simmons Jr. at an art show keep wife Cris Simmons’ mom, Shirley Ann Pitt, who started representation at the age of 83.

“We’ll play some of my songs and Pat Jr.’s songs suggest some covers,” say the superior Simmons.
The younger Simmons has been out on the second-rate opening for the Doobie Brothers.

Currently recording a debut volume, he will open again will them on tour with Gregg Allman.
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Oahu-based reggae band High-mindedness Green will headline a assent at the Maui Tropical Plantation’s Field of Dreams in Waikapu on Saturday. Opening for Birth Green are Piilani Arias upset Danni Girl, and Gomega.
Faltering stars in the world rob reggae music, The Green human resources made history when they became the first local reggae grade to reach any of Billboard’s major mainstream charts, with their most recent album, “Hawaii ’13,” which placed in both honourableness Top 200 albums chart forward Hot 100 singles chart, moreover debuting at No.

1 genre the reggae chart.

Sometimes described hoot Hawaii’s version of Third Globe, they’ve attracted a wide mass with their positive songs. Originally in the year, they organized a Chocolates & Roses flex with stops in 14 states from California to Louisiana.

* Nobleness show is open to those 21 and older and prerogative start at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $21 and are lean at Minit Stop locations build up the plantation.