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Hawai‘i Theatre Announces 2016/2017 Season

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)

Published September 29, 2016 at 10:47 AM HST

Downtown Honolulu’s Historic Hawai‘i Theater has announced their 2016 through 2017 season.

The lineup is filled with notable and adventurous acts from Hawai‘i and around the world.

The season kicks off on October 16^th with Jake Shimabukuro celebrating the 100^th anniversary of Kamaka ukuleles and continues with performances ranging from Hawaiian music, to modern dance, to comedy, to the annual vampire beauty pageant. Hawai‘i Theater Executive Director Ruth Boland says the venue tries to bring acts that you wouldn’t see anywhere else.

More information and tickets can be found at Hawaiitheatre.com

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Nick Yee (dj mr.nick)

Nick Yee’s passion for music developed at an early age, as he collected jazz and rock records pulled from dusty locations while growing up in both Southern California and Honolulu. In college he started DJing around Honolulu, playing Jazz and Bossa Nova sets at various lounges and clubs under the name dj mr.nick. He started to incorporate Downtempo, House and Breaks into his sets as his popularity grew, eventually getting DJ residences at different Chinatown locations. To this day, he is a fixture in the Honolulu underground club scene, where his live sets are famous for being able to link musical and cultural boundaries, starting mellow and building the audience into a frenzy while steering free of mainstream clichés.

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