GiRL FeST MUSIC

Regarding violence against women, the 86 List has always been an anti-war band and we believe the best way to promote world peace is to live peacefully within our communities and families. You cannot have peace when violence is flourishing within our homes. 86 List has no tolerance for domestic violence nor do we believe in using violence as a way to teach children right from wrong. With estimates as high as 1 million people dead due to the war in Iraq, we feel the best anti war examples we can make is by living without using violence in our own lives. WE TOTALLY AGREE! This conscious local band has shared the stage with Anti-Flag, Dropkick Murphys, The Bouncing Souls, Strung Out, The Line, and Youth Brigade and have been influences in the Hawaii scene since 1999.

8:00pm-1am

ADMISSION: $10- $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)
$7 for Students and Seniors with ID

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

Badenyaa is a multi-racial company of dancers and musicians based on O'ahu, Hawai'i. We are dedicated to the dance and music of the peoples of the African continent south of the Sahara and the various peoples of the African Diaspora in the New World. Our goals are to educate others, perform traditional music and dance and engage in creative expression with the purpose of fostering respect and appreciation for the creativity and vitality of black cultures everywhere.

We're very happy to be asked to support GiRLFeST again this year. Look out for our new choreography featuring all our dancers playing drums on Sorsonnet, a Baga rhythm for young women in praise of their mothers.

This Japanese-born quintet rocks songs of high-energy Japanese-language tunes inspired by 1950s American rock and ‘70s punk and rockabilly. Their ability to rock audiences of all walks of life is impressive. Not only do they have a keen sense of style, they rocks as serious musicians in the Honolulu scene. There's a reason the lead singer has a katana for a mic stand. They're simply killer.

8:00pm-1am

ADMISSION: $10- $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)
$7 for Students and Seniors with ID

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

“Define” was born in Edo state Nigeria. He moved to the United States in the early 90s. Just like most musicians, Define: started to sing in churches. If spending time with him, either when he is reading is poems, or working with AIDS and female genital mutilation (FGM) victims in Africa, you will often hear him say “I have always seen myself as a teacher. I sometimes like to remind people that we can make the world a better place. The bare minimum is what is see people giving out there.” Go on conscious brother!

DJ FREQUENCY

"The Revolution Reception"
After Party for "Comedy on the Rock"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
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10pm - 1am

ADMISSION: $10

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: DJ Monkey and DJ Kuulei)

This underground sounds monster has done it all. From the smallest of clubs in Tokyo Japan to sold out crowds in Berlin Germany; And played with the likes of Dara, Dieselboy, AK1200, Bad Boy Bill, DJ Hell, Dr.FreeClouds Prod., artist Remy Shand and the band HATEBREED just to name drop a few for those who need it. Spinning everything from 40’s soul, Downtempo to Hardcore all with the stylings of truntablism in mind. Freq. is the definition of his name, blending bass-lines to minds-eye and tones into your bones. Hawaii join us on the dance floor for our very own... DJ Frequency.

THE HELL CAMINOS
www.myspace.com/thehellcaminos

"Down & Derby After Party"
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9th 2008

Come party with the Pacific Roller Derby, the Maui Derby Girls, and the Hell Caminos! We're pretty sure this night will be EPIC! (Ages 21+)

ANNA BANNANA'S
2440 S. Beretania Street
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9pm-2am
21+

ADMISSION: ??? Call Anna's 946-5190

(Also performing: TBA Special Guests)

The Hell Caminos are a Psychobilly band hailing from Honolulu, HI. Their debut CD "Through the Day And Through the Night" shows their extreme versatility. Easily moving from rockabilly into punk into swing, they show you what it's like living on sleep-deprivation, caffeine, and women. Consisting of Michael Camino (upright bass), Nick Danger (guitar), and Handsome Jack (skins), they bring you into their world, full of voodoo roads, slinky dames, and cheap honkytonks. Their music is astounding. Imaginative, Profound, Dark, all abound with the energy they use to convey their message. Best known for their manic live shows, they embrace showmanship like no other. Their madness will burn a hole in the stage and a hole through your heart.

IMANI UZURI
www.myspace.com/herholywater

"One Light" at Socialite
GiRL FeST's Closing Night Party

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15th

The Loft
115 N. Hotel Street
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9pm-2am
18+

ADMISSION: $10 - $20 Sliding Scale, $7 before 9pm

(Also performing: Kings of Spade, The Malcognitas)

“This paean...reminds me there’s a place in the universe for all of us.”
- NY TIMES, Rebecca Walker

“BEAUTIFUL” - John Legend

Recently featured as Trace Magazine’s ‘Beautiful’, eclectic, bohemian IMANI UZURI is one who defies category. She has performed at numerous international venues/festivals including LINCOLN CENTER, CENTRAL PARK SUMMER STAGE, PERFORMA 07, London’s BARBICAN CENTER, BLUE NOTE, Japan’s WORLD FESTESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC, JOE’S PUB, THE BOX, BOWERY BALLROOM and Morocco’s FESTIVAL D’ESSAOUIRA. UZURI’s recordings/collaborations include HERBIE HANCOCK, JOHN LEGEND, 4-HERO, TALIB KWELI, SLY AND ROBBIE, and KING BRITT. UZURI’s stunning debut album ‘HER HOLY WATER: A BLACK GIRL’S ROCK OPERA’ (available on ITUNES,CDBABY,RHAPOSODY) received an honorable mention for the VILLAGE VOICE PAZZJOP awards and features 18 sweeping and captivating songs. She is currently developing a provocative musical theater piece of the same title of which she just completed 2 sold out performances at the legendary APOLLO THEATRE. She has most recently been selected to participate in the NEW YORK CITY OPERA workshop of a new opera based on Octavia Butlers “PARABLE OF THE SOWER.” www.imaniuzuri.com, myspace.com/herholywater

ISSIL PARK
www.myspace.com/ishlepark

"Opening Night"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
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8:00pm - 1am

ADMISSION: $10- $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)
$7 for Students and Seniors with ID

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: Jennifer Johns, Define, Red Summer, Living Armada, Badenyaa, and DJ Kee)

Issil is a poet & singer born & raised in Queens, New York, but has made Hawaii her new home. She has performed her own songs at cafes & colleges across the US, and also in South Africa, Korea, Singapore, and Aotearoa. Her first CD, Luminous, was recorded over the span of two years. It was released online, but tonight is the first time hard copies are for sale. Issil is also the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. Her first book, The Temperature of This Water, is the winner of three literary awards including the PEN America Beyond Margins Award for Outstanding Writers of Color. She has opened for artists such as KRS-One, Ben Harper, De La Soul, and Saul Williams. The New York Times wrote, “Ms. Park has an angelic face and the soul of a rock star.”

JENNIFER JOHNS
www.jenniferjohns.com

"Opening Night"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
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8:00pm - 1am

ADMISSION: $10- $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)
$7 for Students and Seniors with ID

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: Issil Park, Define, Red Summer, Living Armada, Badenyaa, and DJ Kee)

"A true talent who is immune to musical boundaries."
~ Rolling Stone

Innovative, driven, compassionate, and powerful…just a few words that come to mind when attempting to describe Oakland, CA born singer, songwriter, and spoken word artist Jennifer Johns. Since birth, Jennifer has been making this world "just a little bit more melodic" with her some times boisterous, some times soft, but always powerful voice. If you were to ask her when she started singing she would say, "I don't remember a day that I didn't." In the recent years Jenn has begun spending more time rhyming at the request ab=nd with the support of some of her notable emcee friends. Check her myspace for a taste.
www.myspace.com/jenniferjohns.

Over the last 2 years Jennifer has performed around the US and Europe with artists like Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Res, Zap Mama, KRS-1, De La Soul, Medusa, Gift of Gab/Blackalicious, Souls of Mischief, Zion I and Mystic to name a few. Jennifer released "heavyelectromagneticsoularpoeticjunglehop" co-produced by Grammy nominee Spontaneous on her own label, Nayo Movement Music, in 2004 and plans to follow it up with a new album "Chasing the Sun" in the winter 2007. In addition to production from Spontaneous and Charles Stella (Mos Def, Wax Poetic, Olu Dara, and many more www.charlesstella.net) Jennifer makes her production debut on this record as well. Dont miss her live performance. Ms. Johns will show you just how much of a heavyelectromagnetic force she really is.

DJ KEE

"Opening Night"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
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8:00pm - 1am

ADMISSION: $10- $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)
$7 for Students and Seniors with ID

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: Issil Park, Define, Red Summer, Living Armada, Badenyaa, and Jennifer Johns)

With over 15 years experience, DJ Kee draws upon the positive, conscious, politically infused hip hop of the late 80s and early 90s that inspired him to get started. He taught himself how to DJ as a Ethnic Studies student at UC San Diego in the early 90s. He would watch DJs he knew, admired and hired (while organizing events for various Asian American and Affirmative Action student organizations and councils on campus), then go home and figure out how to do it himself.

KINGS OF SPADE
(Formerly X-Factor)
www.myspace.com/kingsofspade

"One Light" at Socialite
GiRL FeST's Closing Night Party

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15th

The Loft
115 N. Hotel Street
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9pm-2am
18+

ADMISSION: $10 - $20 Sliding Scale, $7 before 9pm

(Also performing: Imani Uzuri, The Malcognitas)

Imagine Stevie Ray Vaughan’s dirty blues guitar stylings crossed with Janis Joplin on vocals, and on occasion you can toss in some hip-hop, turntables, djembe, or didgeridoo. Formerly known as X Factor, Kings of Spade is a fusion of original funk, soul, blues, and rock with all the attitude. The band returned from a 2 year stint in L.A., recording their debut studio album “Crave” (September 2008), playing regularly on Sunset Strip’s Viper Room and The House of Blues. Their song “Boys In The Band” is featured in the Warner Brother’s film “Utopian Society.”

DJ KUULEI

"The Revolution Reception"
After Party for "Comedy on the Rock"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
CLICK HERE FOR MAP

10pm - 1am

ADMISSION: $10

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: DJ Monkey and DJ Frequency)

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii; DJ KUULEI has been spinning records for over 10 years. A former “paid nightclub” dancer (to get people dancing on the dance floor), DJ KUULEI was told that she looked like she had “rhythm” to get into DJ’n by a former nightclub DJ and friend. Learning to beatmix with turntables at a nightclub, on the technics ones and twos, she beat mixed with vinyl on that very night of being taught! Thus DJ’n became a skill. In the past, she has spun with some of the well known DJs and producers in Hawaii. As a versatile DJ; her musical tastes is beat mixed with all the right songs and into all the right beats; lifting up with high energy. DJ KUULEI is bound to give a boost to your dance moves!

LIVING ARMADA
www.myspace.com/livingarmada

"Opening Night"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
CLICK HERE FOR MAP

8:00pm-1am

ADMISSION: $10- $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)
$7 for Students and Seniors with ID

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: Jennifer Johns, Issil Park, Red Summer, Define, Badenyaa, and DJ Kee)

Living Armada only recently started her singing career in January of this year with Juan P. of the Perfect Median. Performing with him at genuineHI’s The Next Movement allowed her to be seen in the public eye for the first time. Her next venture was with Stutterin’ Stan of RDSP. They have performed at GroundUP’s Blueprint Art Show on May 10th and the “Vision” Art Show on May 31st of this year. At the moment, LP is collaborating on an album with one of Hawaii’s finest producers and beat makers Elephant Armada. Their album “Change of Scenery” will offer several different genres and is set to release later this year.”

THE MALCOGNITAS
www.myspace.com/themalcognitas

"One Light" at Socialite
GiRL FeST's Closing Night Party

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15th

The Loft
115 N. Hotel Street
CLICK HERE FOR MAP
9pm-2am
18+

ADMISSION: $10 - $20 Sliding Scale

(Also performing: Imani Uzuri, Kings of Spade)

With a penchant for dark melodic songs that ride the fringes of goth, noise and pop, the Malcognitas are raising the bar in the mostly punk dominated music scene in Hawaii. An experienced rhythm section led by drummer Jack Tawil and the overdriving bass lines by Lorenzo Trinidad provide a strong foundation for lead guitarist Yvonne Harada's rock and noise influenced riffs and vocalist Ara Laylo's somber melodies. Together they form a unique chemistry of rock that is inspired from the likes of Joy Division, Blondie, The Smiths, and Bauhaus. The malcognita is literally your bad thoughts, your darkest side transformed anew. What's your malcognita?

DJ MONKEY

"The Revolution Reception"
After Party for "Comedy on the Rock"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
CLICK HERE FOR MAP

10pm - 1am

ADMISSION: $10

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: DJ Frequency and DJ Kuulei)

Spin City - The Conscious Contest
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th

BAR 35
35 N. Hotel Street
between Smith and Nuuanu
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ADMISSION: $5- $20 Sliding Scale

DJ Monkey took the inspiration to start spinning from the SF rave scene in the mid-90s – veering in the direction of hip hop, drum & bass, electro, world music and building a collection of rare and classic soul, funk and disco breaks. He headlined a series of Saturday drum & bass events at the SF Underground; held a weekly residence at 26 Mix; and shared A&R duties with Narco.hz’s Juju at the pre-Pitchfork music startup Epitonic.com, before moving to Hawaii in 2001. He has rocked parties and special events at the W Hotel, Wave Waikiki, Café Sistina, Indigo, Mercury and is currently a resident of Broken Liquid at Bar 35.

DJ SAYA
www.pacificjungle.com

"Beauty & the Beats"
After Party for the Aquarium

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
CLICK HERE FOR MAP

10pm-1am
21+

ADMISSION: $5 - $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: DJ Toki)

One of Hawaii's two reigning queens of drum and bass, Saya is best known for forming Pacific Jungle in 2005. With Pacific Jungle, she is responsible for Subphonix, Honolulu's longest running drum and bass monthly, which just turned 3 in October, and Broken Liquid, along with Honolulu's other drum and bass Queen, DJ Toki, which is a brand new positive-vibed night of liquid drum and bass and other eclectic beats. As an ambassador of drum and bass to and from Hawaii, Saya and Pacific Jungle have brought a wide variety of artists to the islands from around the globe, including Ed Rush, Concord Dawn, Dylan, Robyn Chaos, DJ Lee, Red One, Shimon, Evol Intent, and John B. With Pacific Jungle, she is currently gearing up for their biggest event yet, Ed Rush & Optical at Pipeline Café the first Saturday of January, along with many of Hawaii's best EDM DJs, covering all genres thoroughly. Though you usually find her behind the scenes making sure everything runs smoothly, Saya loves to step up to the decks herself. In 2006 she was featured on one of MC XYZ's Back2Back Sessions series. The past few years have seen her spinning, not only in Hawaii, but also on the mainland at such nights as LA's longest running drum and bass weekly, Respect. Saya usually comes with the liquidy, dubby, and funky beats, but with her range in taste, she can bust out the dancefloor and darkness as well; you never know what to expect.

For more info on Saya and Pacific Jungle please visit www.pacificjungle.com

DJ TOKI
www.myspace.com/tokidj

"Beauty & the Beats"
After Party for the Aquarium

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8th

Cupola Theater
at The Hawaii Design Center
1250 Kapiolani, 2nd Floor
CLICK HERE FOR MAP

10pm-1am
21+

ADMISSION: $5 - $20 Sliding Scale (pay what you can afford)

Tell all your friends!
Cupola Theatre has just agreed to open up our Girl Fest events to those 18+!

(Also performing: DJ Saya)

Spin City - The Conscious Contest
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th

BAR 35
35 N. Hotel Street
between Smith and Nuuanu
Click here for map

ADMISSION: $5- $20 Sliding Scale

Toki, a member of Oahu’s original all-female DJ collective Sisters In Sound, held a weekly residence at Electro-Lyfe, Saturdays at Indigo in collaboration with DJ Monkey. Never content to restrain their mixing exploration to a single genre, they made each Saturday night in the Opium Den a study in UK and European breakbeats, electro, dance punk, indie pop and drum & bass. Toki has been a frequent featured guest at Subphonix, Amplify/Audiolab Showdown and Lift Sessions at Lotus, and the nationally-famous Hawaii Poetry Slam at Hawaiian Hut. She has also shared the stage with vocalist Jennifer Johns at Nextdoor. Oahu’s native daughter Toki’s latest monthly project paired with DJ Saya of Pacific Jungle fame brings to Broken Liquid, a keen ear for quality music and no-nonsense bass that you’ll recognize from the first record dropped, every third Saturday at Bar 35.