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GUITARIST COSGROVE COMING
Mark Cosgrove, a national flatpicking guitar champion, is heading this way to conduct a workshop at the University of Hawai'i and for a gig at the rRed Elephant downtown. Details:
MAPFUMO AT LCC FEB. 23
Thomas Mapfumo, the voice of chimurenga (struggle music) in strife-torn Zimbabwe — will perform with his band Blacks Unlimited at 8 p.m. Feb. 23 at Leeward Community College Theatre.
Mapfumo now lives in exile in Oregon but continues to compose for his countrymen, reaching them through pirate shortwave broadcasts and bootleg recordings.
Tickets are $23 general, $19 students, those 60 and older and military. 455-0385, htttp://LCCTheatre.hawaii.edu.
HOT DATES
Jan. 26 "Hawai'i's Songbird: A Lena Machado Tribute," featuring Holunape, Hawai'i Theatre.
Jan. 26-Feb. 4 Kyogen, Kennedy Theatre.
Feb. 2 The Radiators in concert, Hawaiian Hut; also Feb. 1, Maui Arts & Cultural Center; Feb. 3, Palace Theatre, Hilo; and Feb. 4, Kilohana Plantation, Kaua'i.
Feb. 2, 4, 6 "Samson & Dalila," grand opera, Blaisdell Concert Hall.
Feb. 3, 4 Cheetah Girls in concert, Blaisdell Arena.
Feb. 4 "Naupaka, A Hawaiian Love Story," Hawai'i Theatre.
March 2 Leon Russell, Hawaiian Hut (also March 1 at Maui Arts & Cultural Center; March 3, Palace Theater, Hilo; March 4, Kilohana Plantation, Kaua'i).
March 30-31 Wynonna Judd, with the Honolulu Symphony Pops, Blaisdell Concert Hall.
