Do It: Hear ‘Moana’ star perform hit from film
FRIDAY
>> Hear ‘Moana’ star perform hit from film
Here’s your chance to give “Moana” star Auli‘i Cravalho a great sendoff for the Oscars.
Moana Performance
Where: Blaisdell Concert Hall
When: >> Pops: “A Night on the Red Carpet,” 7:30 p.m. Friday, $27-$79 >> Masterworks: Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great,” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday. $34-$92
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Info: 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com
The Kamehameha Schools student, who voiced and sang the titular role in the Disney film, will perform the song “How Far I’ll Go” with the Hawai‘i Symphony Orchestra on Friday. Her next public performance of the song will be for a worldwide television audience Feb. 26 during the Academy Awards. The tune was nominated for best original song.
Her performance will be part of “A Night on the Red Carpet,” a concert featuring film music from golden oldies to current blockbusters, including tunes from “Hawaii,” “Forrest Gump” and “Blazing Saddles.” Richard Kauffman, pops conductor of the Orange County Pacific Symphony, leads the orchestra. Tickets have been selling fast for this event, so be sure to check for availability.
The symphony also has two Masterworks concerts this weekend, featuring Joseph Swensen, who will perform as both soloist and conductor in a program of lively Mozart works and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great.”
SATURDAY- TUESDAY
>> Music acts, guest chef light up Optimysstique
Mokuleia goes mystical with the 11th Annual Optimysstique Festival, an event designed to address world problems through creativity, spirituality, wellness and environmentalism.
11th Annual Optimysstique Festival
Where: Camp Mokuleia
When: Noon- 9:30 p.m. (last act) Saturday; 8 a.m.-9 p.m. (last act) Sunday-Monday; 8-11 a.m. Tuesday
Cost: Day passes $15-$100, including meals (except the farm-to-table dinner); weekend passes $300; farm-to-table dinners $65, Saturday-Monday
Info: optimysstique.com
Established by North Shore massage therapist and organic cook Cab Spates, the four-day, three-night event that starts Saturday includes classes in yoga and cooking, farm tours, workshops on sustainability, art displays and music performances. Though there will be no vendors at the festival — the admission price covers events and some meals — visitors can still check out new-age products such as bamboo bicycles, vegan tennis shoes and wallets made from banana fiber.
Special guest this year is chef Carmen Carson, who has catered events including the Grammys, Oscars and Emmys. She will prepare three farm-to-table dinners using North Shore produce. She will also give cooking classes along with Spates.
Latin-reggae artist Shining Lion (7 p.m. Saturday) and percussionist Reid Defever (4 p.m. Sunday) will be among the mainland musicians coming to perform, with local musicians Good Foot (5 p.m. Saturday), Quadrophonix and Taimane Gardner, pictured inset (together at 9 p.m. Sunday), among those appearing.
MONDAY
>> Magician will play tricks on Concert Hall crowd
To call Michael Carbonaro a magician is to severely understate his act. He doesn’t just pull a rabbit out of a hat; he appears to grow a dozen of them in an instant.
Michael Carbonaro
Where: Blaisdell Concert Hall
When: 7 p.m. Monday
Cost: $37-$137
Info: 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com
He’ll pull a cockroach out of a cellphone, telling the stunned owner, “You got the bug out.” He can tie his shoelaces by merely shaking his foot.
Even better are the just-plausible explanations he provides, so that he almost has people believing him. At one performance, posing as a clerk at a shipping center, he pulled a bowling ball out of a flat pizza box, telling a stunned onlooker, “They invert the air so when the sporting goods place comes to pick them, it makes them lighter for shipping.”
Carbonaro “has a collection of tricks and illusions that smartly capture this cultural moment, when the pace of technological innovation leaves us unsure of what is possible and what isn’t,” said The New York Times in a story about his popular Tru-TV television show, “The Carbonaro Effect,” a “Candid Camera”-like show with magic added in.
Carbonaro has been doing magic professionally since high school and was named Magician of the Year by the Academy of Magical Arts in 2014. He performed on “The Tonight Show,” where his “magic clerk” act got its start. He’s an accomplished actor as well, having played criminals on “CSI: Miami” and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.” So watch your wallets.
TUESDAY
>> An “American Idol” winner brings his country stylings to Hawaii
Country star Scotty McCreery brings his “American Idol”-winning ways to Hawaii next week.
Scotty McCreery
Where: Blaisdell Concert Hall
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday
Cost: $49.50-$69.50
Info: 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com
Note: McCreery also performs at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center; $45-$125, 242-7469, mauiarts.org
The young man, just 16 when he first auditioned for “Idol” and now 23, has an old-soul, Elvis-inspired voice. McCreery has followed up his 2010 victory on “Idol” with a series of chart-toppers. Two of his three albums, “Clear as Day” and “See You Tonight,” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country charts, while his third, a Christmas album, reached No. 2. He’s also had one gold- and three platinum-selling singles.
The North Carolina native was just one course shy of graduating from his magnet high school when he won “Idol,” but he returned to pitch for his beloved baseball team. He attributes his unusual, finger-splayed grip on the microphone to his grip on a baseball when he’s pitching. A devout Christian, he has retained the wholesome attitude that made him a favorite on “Idol,” where he famously refused to sing a song from the film “Midnight Cowboy” because the movie was rated X.
While going on to pursue a college degree, he’s also managed to find time to co-write a book, “Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream,” where he shares incidents from his life — like being held up at gunpoint, his personal life and behind-the-scenes moments on the TV talent competition.