With all the dance venues happening on a Saturday night, there's one place that was jumping with some of the hot Latin tunes. Yeah! Hawaii Gardenia Circle's Gayle Kawahakui and committee sure put on a good program last Saturday night at the Ala Wai Palladium. Just using the Diamond Head side of the ballroom was good enough to have the non-stop music resonate and get nearly all the dancers on the floor. I gotta say that the music sounded better in this half of the entire ballroom. Music was provided by DeeJay Bert Burgess with wife Deanie Bates. EmCee for the program was Steven Sambrano who handled the program with ease. (Mahalo, Steven for sharing your program notes).
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| Bert, Deanie, and Steven |
Got to the Palladium a little after 7:00 without my main squeeze Lani, altho' we were invited as guests of Gayle Kawahakui. (Thank you, Gayle). Felt like the lone survivor but the music was good to stimulate the senses. The up beat music was echoing throughout the ballroom as dancers were moving to the Ballroom and Latin tunes.
Come about eight o'clock, the showcase part of the program started with the parade of local dancers who were going to perform in the six Latin dances.
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| Edwin & Charlotte Bugarin |
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| Mike & Lorrie Chun |
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| Calvin & Debra Ota |
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| Shinya McHenry & Ceci Chang-Freeman |
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| Robert & Rosy Schiff, and Roy DeLeon |
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| Romeo & Elsa Navarea |
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| Mark & Patty DelaCruz |
The first dance performance was the Hot Cha Cha Cha.
Followed by the Sizzling Samba
The Romantic Rumba
Corrida de Toros Paso Doble
The Jumping Jive
The Sensuous Bolero
Curtain Call
There were other cameras at the Latin Festival. too.
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| Elsa Navarea and Patty DelaCruz |
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| Robert Schiff, Patty & Mark DelaCruz, and Roy DeLeon |
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| Calvin & Debra Ota |
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| Roy DeLeon, Elsa Navarea, Rosy & Robert Schiff, Patty & Mark DelaCruz |
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| Lorrie & Mike Chun |
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| Shinya McHenry & Ceci Chang-Freeman |
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| Romeo Navarea, Mark DelaCruz, Roy DeLeon, Patty DelaCruz, Robert & Rosy Schiff |
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| Edwin & Charlotte Bugarin |
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| Calvin & Debra Ota, Lorrie & Mike Chun, Patty & Mark DelaCruz, Elsa Navarea, Rosy & Robert Schiff, Roy DeLeon, and Romeo Navarea |
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| Rosy & Robert Schiff |
Some of the guests who came to enjoy the Showcase:
Big Mahalo to our gracious host Gayle Kawahakui.
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| Elsa Navarea, Gayle Kawahakui, and little guest |
