📍 La Pietra - Hawai'i School for Girls

      2933 Poni Moi Road

      Honolulu, HI 96815

⌚ Gates open at 5:00 PM

🎶 Entertainment begins at 5:30 PM

🚗 Parking available at Jefferson Elementary School

      324 Kapahulu Ave, Honolulu, HI 96815

      Lot opens at 4:45 PM and closes at 9:15 PM

      Shuttle will be provided between Jefferson and La Pietra

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Shari Lynn became La Pietra’s Director of Music in 1999 and retired in 2022. During that time she created, produced, and performed in Sunset Jazz, in order to bring live music to La Pietra’s students. 

Lynn is recognized as Hawaii’s leading musical theatre actress, a cabaret and jazz artist, and is an accomplished writer and educator. She has appeared in every major showroom in Hawaii (including the Blue Note), starred with the Honolulu Symphony, was singing partner of the late Jimmy Borges, and helmed her own radio and TV shows. She is a founding member of The Jive Sisters, sang with the Del Courtney Orchestra at the famed Monarch Room Tea Dances, head-lined on The Independence and Constitution and led her own band, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, for 25 years.

For the last five decades, Ginai has worked on Dreamgirls, Legends in Concert as Whitney Houston, and toured the Blue Note circuit in Japan and at home in Hawai‘i. 

Adding to her lengthy list of recent accomplishments are two movies: Rocking in Paradise and Tale of the Circle Keys. Her shows this past year include some of her finest work: The Best of Ginai, Hawaiian Soul (also the name of her new book), The Music of Sade, The Koalition (also known as The FunkAholics), and Fleetwood Blac, a reimagining of the music of Fleetwood Mac. She single-handedly lays claim to being a versatile artist, proficient and accomplished in jazz, R&B, rock, and soul.

Jeannette Casuga Trevias is a versatile and accomplished musician whose career spans a wide array of musical roles and genres. She's been Musical Director for some of the Philippines’ most celebrated artists, including Lea Salonga, Gary Valenciano, Zsa Zsa Padilla, Kuh Ledesma, and Martin Nievera. In Honolulu, she worked with Fiji, Loyal Garner, Melveen Leed, Carol Kai, Nohelani Cypriano and Hawaii’s Society of Seven LV. She performed at the 2000 International Jazz Festival alongside world-renowned trumpeter Tiger Okoshi.

Currently, she can be seen at Marriott Beach Club’s Longboards, Star of Honolulu Dinner Cruises, Waikele Country Club, and the Hyatt Regency. Her dynamic repertoire spans jazz standards, pop rock, Latin, R&B, and Hawaiian music.

Mary Gutzi is well known to Hawai‘i audiences for her performances at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, the Royal Hawaiian, and Diamond Head Theatre, to name a few. She has also appeared on Broadway and in national tours of Les Misérables, Cats, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof, Sunset Boulevard, Mary Poppins, The Light in the Piazza, Man of La Mancha, and many more. Most recently, she played Mother Superior in Sister Act on tour in South Korea and Japan.

Riya Davis is a dynamic vocalist of Palauan and Dominican descent who began her singing career in Hawai‘i, competing in the high school competition Brown Bags to Stardom. She went on to appear in Hawai‘i Stars (2000, 2001) and MTV’s Say What? Karaoke.

As a background vocalist, Riya has performed with artists such as Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige, Sheila E., Bobby Caldwell, Ruben Studdard, Ray Parker Jr., and Deniece Williams. She is also an accomplished stage performer, earning a Po‘okela Award nomination for her role in Beehive at Manoa Valley Theatre (2003).

In 2016, Riya held a three-month residency at Blue Note Hawai‘i as a lead in the Gospel Brunch and has headlined tribute shows honoring Jill Scott, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and Natalie Cole. She is currently the lead singer of local bands The Jay.Keyz Project and Adagio, and performs full-time as a jazz singer aboard the Star of Honolulu.

Sandy Tsukiyama was born and raised in Honolulu and is the leader of the Brazilian jazz band, Arara de Vento. A trained ethnomusicologist and music educator, she is also a professional language interpreter and the host of The Brazilian Experience on Hawai‘i Public Radio. As a vocalist, she has performed with local legends such as Ohta-San, Nohelani Cypriano, and Yvonne Elliman, as well as with salsa, Latin jazz, and mariachi ensembles.

Arara de Vento means “Macaw Parrot of the Wind” and was coined by Rafael Borges Amaral (guitar) and Gustavo D’Amico (sax), both from São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD candidates in Music Composition at UH Mānoa. Rounding out the sextet are powerhouses Tommy James (keyboard), Alika Lyman (bass), and Abe Lāgrimas Jr. (drums). Expect to hear works by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Djavan, Hermeto Pascoal, Pixinguinha, and more!