Today I went to the Kokua Festival with my temporary roommate, Henry. The concert is put on by Jack Johnson in support of conservation and being green. Ironically, they made me dump out my Nalgene bottle of water before letting me in. Apparently being able to charge me $3 for a bottle of water is more important than not generating plastic waste. Not to mention all of the plastic cups used for beer, the paper plates used for all of the food... basically it was a concert about Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling, but it looked just like any other concert when it came to concessions. The only difference was that they had recycling bags all over the place to make you feel better about it. I have a sneaking suspicion that they just threw that all away as well. There were three openings in order to sort your stuff on each container, but only one bag in the bottom. It was a bit suspect.
The show itself was amazing. I mean, the lead singer of Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, was there along with some other good artists and Jack Johnson himself. How could you go wrong? They all sounded great and performed well. It was a great evening. The whole scene was very Hawaii. The beautiful weather, palm trees swaying in the light breeze, and the stars shining. The music, as I said, was beautiful, and the sound itself was perfect. I usually don't like concerts because they are so loud that my ears want to bleed. At this concert, you could actually hold a conversation with the person next to you. The music was very crisp and near-sounding, but not loud. Perfect.
Tomorrow we have off work, so it will be another day on the Sand Bar. This life Hawaiian.
2 comments:
Sounds great. I'd actually heard about this before we came out, and I was disappointed it was such a near miss. Glad you had fun!
We actually debated changing our tickets to catch the concert. Sounds like it was great!
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