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It’s no blunder: Stevie Wonder is slated to perform a private concert tonight in Waikiki.
The acclaimed singer-songwriter will perform for an Oracle Corp. audience at Ainahau Triangle at Fort DeRussy, according to longtime concert promoter Tom Moffatt.
By sundown Friday a large stage, along with a tent, booths and scaffolding, had already been erected at the Fort DeRussy concert site. A sound check blared country music over a speaker system, and lights set up above and around the stage bathed the area in color.
A dark green-screened perimeter fence kept the public out, and the security guard at one entrance said she could not discuss the event.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison purchased the island of Lanai last year from Castle & Cooke.
Wonder’s Waikiki concert comes more than a year after the so-called "Wonder Blunder," when the University of Hawaii was scammed out of $200,000 in a bogus Wonder benefit concert.
The debacle shook public confidence in UH leadership and led to the ouster of then-athletic director Jim Donovan.