Event aims to strengthen bonds between cultures through music.
TOKYO, JAPAN, 2019-Aug-28 — /Travel PR News/ — All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest and 5-Star airline for seven consecutive years, will be partnering with the State of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu to create the inaugural ANA HONOLULU MUSIC WEEK on Oahu from Nov. 15-17, 2019.
ANA HONOLULU MUSIC WEEK is an exciting, three-day event that brings together local musicians from Hawaii and global artists to share music from their respective cultures and strengthen bonds between the performers and attendees.
“ANA has contributed to several community service initiatives in Hawaii, such as beach cleanups, green transportation, reforestation initiatives and we hope the ANA HONOLULU MUSIC WEEK will benefit the local community,” said Takashi Shiki, Senior Executive Vice President of ANA. “We want to bring global artists and musicians from Hawaii and Japan together to create an event that helps people connect and share diverse, cultural experiences.”
The event features performances from several Hawaiian music legends, including: Robert Cazimero, a Grammy-nominated musician who has won more than 40 Na Hoku Hanohano awards; Kalapana, one of the biggest names in Hawaiian contemporary music; and Danny Kalekini, an ambassador of aloha, who has delighted audiences from around the world for more than 50 years and performed with Paul Anka, Dolly Parton, Sammy Davis Jr. and Don Ho, among others.
International artists and groups slated to perform include: Ryoko Moriyama, a folk singer from Japan; Kiyotaka Sugiyama, a pop artist from Japan; Ryu Goto, a Japanese-American concert violinist from New York, NY; and Engelbert Humperdinck, an English pop singer from the United Kingdom.
Performances throughout the three-day event will span nine stages from Downtown Honolulu to Waikiki:
- • Blaisdell Concert Hall
- •International Market Place
- •Royal Hawaiian Center
- •Kapiolani Band Stand
- •The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach Hotel
- •Bishop Square
- •Kawaiaha’o Church
- •Mission House
- •Iolani High School
Starting Sept. 1, 2019, ANA will promote the event with a 30-second commercial that will be shown on all ANA flights to and from Hawaii.
ANA HONOLULU MUSIC WEEK is a continuation of ANA’s efforts to create positive experiences for travelers around the globe and help showcase the treasures of Hawaii to a wider audience. The event will include free public performances as well as ticketed shows. For more information, please visit http://www.hnlmusicweek.org
About ANA
Following the “Inspiration of Japan” high quality of service, ANA has been awarded the respected 5-Star rating every year since 2013 from SKYTRAX. ANA is the only Japanese airline to win this prestigious designation seven years in a row. Additionally, ANA has been recognized by Air Transport World as “Airline of the Year” three times in the past 10 years – 2007, 2013 and 2018, becoming one of the few airlines winning this prestigious award for multiple times.
ANA was founded in 1952 with two helicopters and has become the largest airline in Japan, as well as one of the most significant airlines in Asia, operating 82 international routes and 122 domestic routes. ANA offers a unique dual hub model which enables passengers to travel to Tokyo and connect through the two airports in the metropolitan Tokyo, NARITA and HANEDA, to various destinations throughout Japan, and also offers same day connections between various North American, Asian and Chinese cities.
ANA has been a member of Star Alliance since 1999 and has joint venture partnerships with United Airlines, Lufthansa German Airlines, Swiss International Airlines and Austrian Airlines.
Besides the full service and award winner carrier ANA, the ANA Group has two LCCs as consolidated subsidiaries, Vanilla Air Inc. and Peach Aviation Limited. The ANA Group carried 53.8 million passengers in FY2017, has approximately 39,000 employees and a fleet of 268 aircraft. ANA is a proud launch customer and the biggest operator of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
For more information, please refer to the following link.
https://www.ana.co.jp/group/en/
Contact :
ANA Corporate Communications
TEL +81-3-6735-1111
publicrelations@ana.co.jp
Source: ANA