April 6, 2014

NTBG concert, Queen Emma cottage

Saturday I attended the 50th anniversary NTBG concert featuring a number of great Hawaiian musicians and guest headliner Jerry Douglas. 

The event was on the lawn at NTBG south shore visitor center near Spouting Horn (Poipu). They said over 1,000 people attended, including both the governor and the mayor of Kauai county.


Lots of great musical performances and some hula as well, mostly Hawaiian style but also some country and a little jazz as well. The encore went on and on with more musicians joining in onstage for the finale.

It was a good event and I hope it becomes an annual tradition, or at least they don't want another fifty years.

In the Allerton Garden some renewal is in progress around the Allerton house down by the beach at Lawai Kai. In particular the Queen Emma cottage has a new roof and is freshly painted. This historic building dates back to the days when the queen maintained a residence here. Originally built up above the valley, after Alexander McBryde purchased the property he had the cottage moved down to its present location. Robert and John Allerton built their residence next to it, partly visible in the photo at left.

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