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Merrie Monarch Festival

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Merrie Monarch Festival
March-April; week after Easter
The Merrie Monarch Festival is a week of festivities in Hilo honoring Hawaii's King David Kalakaua (1836-1891), who reigned from 1874 to 1891, and gave the United States exclusive rights to maintain a naval station at Pearl Harbor. The week's events, starting on Easter, close with the world's largest hula competition on the last three nights. The top hula schools ( hula halau ) compete in ancient and modern hula.
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Big Island Visitors Bureau
250 Keawe St.
Hilo, HI 96720
808-961-5797; fax: 808-961-2126
www.merriemonarchlive.com
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Every spring, the Merrie Monarch Festival serves as a venue for displaying and promoting traditional Hawaiian art forms, especially traditional music and dance.
The Cultural History of Hawaii by Jon Kelly / Travel, recreation and leisure community
An international level festival takes place every spring in Hilo on the island of Hawaii at The Merrie Monarch Festival.
The Hawaiian scene: grass skirts and dancing geckos by Egan, Carol / Dance Magazine
The troupe has, in fact, been similarly greeted ever since its first appearance, in 1994, at the Merrie Monarch Festival, a three-day Varna-like competition held in the 7,000-seat Edith Kanaka'ole stadium in Hilo and televised throughout the state.
CARNEGIE HALL DOES THE HULA by Durbin, Paula / Dance Magazine
 
 
 
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