The Music of Kalaupapa: A concert to raise funds for Kalaupapa Memorial Performers will pay tribute to Kalaupapa musicians, composers
A virtual concert to help raise funds to build the Kalaupapa Memorial will be presented at 1 p.m. Oct. 17, with Brother Noland, Melveen Leed, Stephen Inglis, Kevin Brown and Lopaka Ho’opi’i paying tribute to the often-forgotten musicians and composers of the remote Molokai settlement.
Signed by President Barack Obama in 2009, the Kalaupapa Memorial Act authorized the nonprofit Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa to establish a memorial listing the names of those who were sent to the peninsula because of government policies regarding leprosy, now called Hansen’s disease — around 8,000 in total.
