Stars to shine for Rising Sun

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Stars to shine for Rising Sun
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Hawaiian entertainer Henry Kapono Ka'aihue, former Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood, country music legend Willie Nelson, Jack Johnson, and former Doobie Brothers bandmates, Michael McDonald and Pat Simmons, are headlining a five-hour multimedia ...
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Country legend Willie Nelson and singer/songwriter Jack Johnson helped to raise $1.6 million (£1 million) for Japanese earthquake/tsunami relief efforts on Sunday (10Apr11) by performing at a charity concert in Hawaii.

The stars joined Fleetwood Mac rocker Mick Fleetwood and musician Michael MCDonald on the bill for the Kokua for Japan gig in Oahu.

Speaking after the show on Sunday, Coralie Chun Matayoshi, head of the Hawaiian branch of the American Red Cross, says, "Kokua for Japan was truly a labour of love to show our care and concern for the people of Japan.

"We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support that Hawaii's people have shown today. Their compassion will give strength to humanitarian efforts in Japan as we help them recover from this terrible tragedy. We want to thank everyone involved in this event for their wonderful contribution to the cause of humanity."

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Hawaii Japanese relief event organizers say the event on the Great Lawn at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki raised $1.6 million as of Sunday afternoon. Donations will continue to be accepted at www.kokuaforjapan.com. The sold-out Sunday concert was called “Kokua For Japan,” using the Hawaiian word for “help.”

Entertainers included Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald and Mick Fleetwood. Hawaiian music performers included Henry Kapono, Amy Hanaialii, and the Brothers Cazimero. All proceeds from the $15 tickets are to benefit the American Red Cross for Japan earthquake and Pacific tsunami relief efforts. All entertainers, crew and event producers donated their time and resources for the event.

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HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake and tsunamis that hit Japan last month raised $1.6 million.

Event organizers say the event on the Great Lawn at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki raised $1.6 million as of Sunday afternoon. Donations will continue to be accepted at www.kokuaforjapan.com. The sold-out Sunday concert was called "Kokua For Japan," using the Hawaiian word for "help."

Entertainers included Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald and Mick Fleetwood. Hawaiian music performers included Henry Kapono, Amy Hanaialii, and the Brothers Cazimero.

All proceeds from the $15 tickets are to benefit the American Red Cross for Japan earthquake and Pacific tsunami relief efforts. All entertainers, crew and event producers donated their time and resources for the event

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Kimo Sutton and his group of four friends spent at least $300 on tickets, T-shirts and food to help benefit Japa*nese relief efforts yesterday, and Sutton was still ready to dig down even deeper.

"You get what you give and you feel good," Sutton said from his plastic concert seat on the Great Lawn at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa.

The sold-out Kokua for Japan concert featured acts ranging from the Brothers Cazi*mero, Na Leo and Society of Seven to Jack Johnson, Mick Fleetwood and Willie Nelson and generated $1.6 million in tickets, food and T-shirt sales to help Japan recover from the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and continuing problems at the Fuku*shima Dai*ichi nuclear power station, said spokes*man David Sayre.

"Kokua for Japan was truly a labor of love to show our care and concern for the people of Japan," Cora*lie Chun Mata*yo*shi, chief executive officer of the American Red Cross, Hawaii State Chapter, said in a statement late yesterday afternoon. "We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support that Hawaii's people have shown today. Their compassion will give strength to humanitarian efforts in Japan as we help them recover from this terrible tragedy. We want to thank everyone involved in this event for their wonderful contribution to the cause of humanity."

All 2,700 seats were sold out for yesterday's daylong concert, which was broadcast live on local radio and television stations, streamed live on the Web and also broadcast on Japa*nese radio.

Chuck Cotton, vice president and general manager of co-sponsor Clear Channel Radio Hawaii, said all of the talent, staging, lighting, sound and broadcast expenses were donated.

And 100 percent of the money raised from ticket sales and online donations received during the broadcast would go directly to the American Red Cross for Japan, Cotton said.

Linda Eto volunteered to cruise through the crowd with a fishing net for even more cash donations and had no trouble finding donors.

"This is the fun stuff," Eto said. "Ninety percent of the people are very giving, very giving."

Pat Buchanan of San Diego dropped a $20 bill into Eto's net.

"I can't imagine losing my house and losing my relatives and having no one to help," Buchanan said.

She and her husband, Buck, joined their friends Linda and Joe Davis of Wai*alae Nui Ridge so Pat could see Willie Nelson perform as part of the end-of-concert, all-star jam.

In addition to the $150 worth of tickets and scrip for food and drinks, Joe Davis also donated online. "It's very important," he said.

Kaulana Young of Makiki and his wife, Joni, had no trouble recruiting their friends to spend a day in the sun listening to local and mainland headliners perform on two separate stages.

"We're doing our part," Young said. "Might as well support a good cause."

Like others at the concern, the Youngs' friend James Ahina was amazed at how quickly all of the acts and equipment came together.

"It takes a lot of time to put on a good concert," Ahina said.

Jade and Chris DeBone of Mililani checked into a room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Saturday to get to yesterday's concert early, then realized they forgot their tickets at home.

So they backed their new Lexus RX350 into a fifth-floor parking stall overlooking the Hilton Hawaiian Village's Great Lawn, opened the hatch and enjoyed the performances in the shade and comfort of their SUV.

On top of the tickets they didn't use, Jade DeBone bought four Kokua for Japan T-shirts for friends at $20 each, and Chris texted a $200 donation from the back of their Lexus.

"I'm afraid people are going to think, ‘Cheapskate,'" Jade said, "but we're just trying to help out Japan."

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By Minna Sugimoto bio | email

WAIKIKI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kokua For Japan -- a television, radio and Internet fundraising event for the victims of last month's earthquake and tsunami -- pulled in $1.6 million in donations as of 5:30 PM Sunday.

Before the star-studded benefit concert got underway, Kokua For Japan had already raised an estimated $640,000.

A sell-out crowd of 2,000 blanketed the Great Lawn at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, excited to be part of the internationally-broadcast event. Helen Kalahiki of Kahaluu just knew she had to be at the benefit concert, after hearing about it from a friend.

"I'm a rabid Willie Nelson fan, so she immediately called me up and that was it," she said. "Plus, it's for a really good cause."

After a half-hour delay due to technical difficulties, the Brothers Cazimero took the stage and got the place rocking. Other performers included Na Leo, Amy Hanaialii, Henry Kapono with Mick Fleetwood and Michael McDonald, and Jack Johnson.

"It's amazing how everybody just came together," Kapono said. "It's all about aloha. All I had to do was ask and people just said okay, we'll be there."

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HONOLULU -- Music swelled over the great lawn at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Sunday afternoon as legendary musicians and entertainers shared their talents to raise money for Kokua for Japan.

“They are some of the best. I think it’s just wonderful we are very thrilled to be able to attend,” said Canadian visitor Jim Wales.

Thousands came to Waikiki to sing and dance to the sounds of Cecilio and Kapono, as millions more watched at home and over the Internet.

Jack Johnson, Michael McDonald, Willie Nelson, Mick Fleetwood and dozens of local entertainers such as Jake Shimabukuro and Amy Hanaialii joined a long line up of entertainers.

“It’s a fabulous turn out. We've had so many people show up today to support the people of Japan,” Kahealani Doss, from Honolulu.

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World-renowned entertainer Willie Nelson and nationally acclaimed recording artists Michael McDonald and Mick Fleetwood appeared with Henry Kapono along with Hawaii’s top Entertainers at Kokua for Japan:

Cecilio & Kapono
Brothers Cazimero
Kalapana
Amy Hanaia
Na Leo
John Cruz
Natural Vibrations
Robi Kahakalau
Cecilio & Kompany
ManoaDNA
Eric Gilliom
Mailani
Taimane
Go Jimmy Go
Jerry Santos
Gregg Hammer Band
Loretta Ables Sayre
Jaime Sommers
Kenny Endo Taiko

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