Wayfinding: 50 Years of Hōkūleʻa – Musical Ferry Voyage (Angel Island)

Submitted by the Event OrganizerDel Sol QuartetWayfinding – 50 years of Hōkūleʻa’– a musical journey to Angel Island with Del Sol Quartet  Featuring world premieres by Leilehua Lanzilotti, Michael-Thomas Foumai, and Edward Simon Participate in Hōkūleʻa-inspired hands-on history activities.  Del Sol Quartet invites audiences of all ages to experience the spirit of Hōkūleʻa’ * by celebrating ancient traditions of ocean voyaging. This program centers us inside our shared Pacific – Moananuiākea – and evokes an oceanic identity, on the 50th anniversary of the Hōkūleʻa’s maiden voyage to Tahiti. After a ferry ride to Angel Island, we hear music from a new perspective with  Pasifika composers Leilehua Lanzilotti and Michael-Thomas Foumai and swing on the majestic waves of “Guardian of the Oceans”, especially arranged for Del Sol by SFJazz Collective’s piano-hero Edward Simon. Peter Schulthorpe’s pulsing Australian “Earth Cry” rounds out the program.   This event continues Del Sol’s groundbreaking Angel Island Concert series, sharing music inside the detention barracks at Angel Island Immigration Station. Long a place of suffering and dashed hopes, these barracks also stand as testimony to the irrepressible creative spirit of the Chinese detainees who carved hundreds of poems into the walls. Three times a year, Del Sol fills this acoustically superb monument with music, in partnership with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.  Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.