Saturday Evenings: 
Slack Key Guitar Concerts.  Traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar and `ukulele concerts. January 7 – Gifts of the Ancestors; January 14 – For the Birds; January 21 – Poina `Ole – Never to be forgotten; January 28 – Aloha Music of Hawai`i.  Free gift drawing.  Award winning traditional Hawaiian slack key guitar ad ukulele concerts featuring songs and stories telling its history.  Tickets $25 general admission, $20 Ages 13-19 & over 50, keiki under 5 free.  Proceeds support Princeville at Hanalei Community Association and this program.  Princeville Community Center, 4334 Emmalani Dr., Princeville.  6 to 8 p.m.  For information and reservations call (808) 826-1469 or visit http://www.mcmasterslackkey.com/.

Saturday, January 7:
Kona Jazz Experience.  Be transported to the big band era by Bill Noble’s Big Island Big Band at the historic Aloha Theatre, 79-7384 Mamalahoa Hwy., Kainaliu. 7 p.m. Cost: $20. For more information, call (808) 322-9924, email Info@apachawaii.org or visit Alohatheater.com.

Saturday, January 7:
Rita Rudner.  A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000, Rita Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners. Over the course of a 14-year run and 2,000 plus shows, Rudner has sold 1.5 million tickets and become the longest-running solo comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. She has been named Las Vegas’s Comedian of the Year nine years in a row and in 2006 received the Nevada Ballet’s Woman of the Year award. Maui Arts & Cultural Center, McKoy Studio Theatre, 1 Cameron Way, Kahului.  7:30 p.m.  For tickets and information call (808) 242-7469 or visit http://mauiarts.org/.