EVENT  SCHEDULE

The Barefoot Hawaiian performs a significant number of shows annually that are open to the general public.  Best of all, the majority of these shows are completely FREE or, may require at most, a small admission fee charged by the event's sponsoring organization, for entrance to their event.

If you have not yet witnessed the Barefoot Hawaiian experience, this is your opportunity to do so with no risk and little or no expense.  If you are thinking about hiring the Barefoot Hawaiian for your event, we invite you come out and see us at one of our public shows.  We are certain you will agree that we are #1 in Hawaiian Entertainment.

To protect the privacy of our clients, this schedule does not contain our private show schedule.

2008 Public Event Schedule

(Schedule Last Revised May 7, 2008)

The following is our current schedule of public shows, appearances, and special events for 2008.  Check back often since our schedule changes frequently as bookings continue to come in right up through the end of the year.

Want to see what we did in recent years? Select year below...
  2005 Schedule     2006 Schedule     2007 Schedule  

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 JANUARY   FEBRUARY   MARCH   APRIL   MAY   JUNE   JULY 

 AUGUST   SEPTEMBER   OCTOBER   NOVEMBER   DECEMBER 

RECURRING EVENTS

Every Friday Night
The Ports of Paradise Show
The Tiki Terrace Restaurant

8:30 PM

Call the restaurant for reservations and details
(reservations required)

The Tiki Terrace Restaurant

1591 Lee Street
(At the NE Corner of Lee & Oakton
between Blockbuster and Radio Shack)
Des Plaines, IL 60018
847-795-TIKI
The Tiki Terrace Web Site

Every Saturday Night
The Hanalei Show
The Tiki Terrace Restaurant

8:30 PM

Call the restaurant for reservations and details
(reservations required)

The Tiki Terrace Restaurant

1591 Lee Street
(At the NE Corner of Lee & Oakton
between Blockbuster and Radio Shack)
Des Plaines, IL 60018
847-795-TIKI
The Tiki Terrace Web Site

JANUARY EVENTS

(No events opened to the general public occurred in January)

FEBRUARY EVENTS

Friday, February 1, 2008
Library Lover's Luau

Huntley, IL
6:00 -8:00 PM

The Luau will be held at the Old Village Hall located at
11704 Coral Street
Huntley, IL 60142

Sponsored by the Huntley Area Public Library District
11000 Ruth Road
Huntley, IL 60142
847-669-5386

Download Their Event Flier (1435K)

For more information visit

Huntley Library Web Site

Friday, February 29, 2008
Chandler-Newberger Leap Year Luau

Evanston, IL
7:00 -8:00 PM

Chandler-Newberger Community Center
1028 Central Street
Evanston, IL 60201

Sponsored by the City of Evanston
Parks/Forestry & Recreation Department

For more information visit

Their Official Web Site

MARCH EVENTS

(No events opened to the general public occurred in January)

APRIL EVENTS

Friday, April 25, 2008
Huntley Library

Huntley, IL
10:00 AM

Friday, April 25, 2008
  Show Premier: The Ports of Paradise  
At the NEW Tiki Terrace Restaurant

8:30 PM

After a 5-month relocation from Prospect Heights to Des Plaines, The new Tiki Terrace Restaurant opens tonight with its first music and dance show featuring the Barefoot Hawaiian.

The Ports of Paradise is our show many of you Tiki Terrace patrons of the old location are familiar with, but it is now being performed in a new place on a new fantastic stage with an elaborate lighting system and a state-of-art sound system, giving a familiar show an entirely new and fresh look.

If you have seen our Ports of Paradise show before, you will not have seen it presented like this.  Starting tonight, the Barefoot Hawaiian will be performing this show every Friday night at the NEW Tiki Terrance Restaurant.

Call the restaurant for reservations and details
(reservations required)

The Tiki Terrace Restaurant

1591 Lee Street
(At the NE Corner of Lee & Oakton
between Blockbuster and Radio Shack)
Des Plaines, IL 60018
847-795-TIKI
The Tiki Terrace Web Site

Saturday, April 26, 2008
  Show Premier: The Hanalei Show  
At the NEW Tiki Terrace Restaurant

8:30 PM

After a 5-month relocation from Prospect Heights to Des Plaines, The new Tiki Terrace Restaurant is now open with its first Saturday night music and dance show featuring the Barefoot Hawaiian.  We premier this first Saturday night with a brand new show never before seen: The Hanalei Show.

Enjoy The Hanalei Show on a new fantastic stage with an elaborate lighting system and a state-of-art sound system.  This is a show like never before seen in the Chicago area.

Starting tonight, the Barefoot Hawaiian will be performing this show every Saturday night at the NEW Tiki Terrance Restaurant.

Call the restaurant for reservations and details
(reservations required)

The Tiki Terrace Restaurant

1591 Lee Street
(At the NE Corner of Lee & Oakton
between Blockbuster and Radio Shack)
Des Plaines, IL 60018
847-795-TIKI
The Tiki Terrace Web Site

MAY EVENTS

No Non-recurring Public Events Currently Scheduled for this Month

JUNE EVENTS

Saturday & Sunday, June 7 & 8, 2008
The Taste of Des Plaines

2:00 PM on Saturday
2:00 PM on Sunday

Held at the Des Plaines Library Center
1501 Ellinwood Street
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016
Cost: FREE
Sponsored by the City of Des Plaines

Saturday, June 14, 2008
"Islands in Time — 25 Years of Aloha"
The 5th Annual Halau Concert

Des Plaines Park District
The Prairie Lakes Community Center Theater
515 East Thacker
Des Plaines, Illinois

This is a Barefoot Hawaiian Special Event
Enjoy an Evening of Music, Entertainment, and More
One-Night, One-Show Only

Tickets Go On Sale May 15
$15 per person (adult or child)

This is a rare opportunity for the general public to see our entire 2008 show in indoor auditorium comfort and seating, entirely sponsored by the Barefoot Hawaiian.  All divisions will be performing.  This complete and unabridged, "director's cut" of the show will run about 3 hours and is our best bargain of the year.

Visit our Multimedia Page to view 5-minute
summary videos of our shows from previous years.

Show Time: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Festival doors open at 5:30 PM, Theaters doors open at 6:00
Show includes an intermission and we will have merchandise for sale

Ticket ordering information and Complete Flier is forthcoming

Download the Theater Seating Chart  (84K)

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Mount Prospect Park District Show

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Lions Park Band Shell
Lions Park
411 S. Maple St.
Mount Prospect, IL 60056
(at the corner of Lincoln and Maple streets)
Hosted by the Mount Prospect Park District

JULY EVENTS

Friday, July 4, 2008
Carol Stream Independence Day Parade

Carol Stream, IL
10:00 AM

After our performance at the 2007 parade, the city of Carol Stream booked us immediately for their 2008 parade.  Thank you to the residence of Carol Stream for a great reception.

The Parade route runs along Lies Road
from Country Farm Road east to Hampe Park 

Visit the Carol Stream Parade Web Site

Friday, July 4, 2008
Village of Oak Lawn Independence Day Parade

Oak Lawn, IL
10:00 AM

Sunday, July 6, 2008
Bartlett Parade

1:00 - 3:00 PM
Sponsored by the Lions Club

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Lake Park & Lake Opeka Show

7:00 PM
At the Lee Street and Route 72
Des Plaines, Illinois
Free Admission
Bring your own lawn chairs
Hosted by the Des Plaines Park District

Friday, July 18, 2008
Show in Palatine

12:00 Noon
Palatine Town Square
Palatine, Illinois
Hosted by the Palatine Park District

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Lake in the Hills Show

7:00 - 8:00 PM
Indian Trail Beach Park
Free Admission
Hosted by the Village of Lake in the Hills

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Village of Hoffman Estates Summer Concert Series

7:00 PM
At the Village Green
Hoffman Estates, Illinois

AUGUST EVENTS

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Norridge Park District Aloha Night

7:00 - 8:30 PM

Norridge Community Park
4631 N. Overhill Avenue
Norridge, Illinois
Free Admission
Food available for purchase at this event
Suggestions: Bring your own lawn chair
Sponsored by the Norridge Park District

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Wilmette Aloha Night

8:00 PM

Starlight Theatre
At the Wallace Bowl in Gillson park
Wilmette, Illinois
Cost: FREE
Suggestions: Bring your own lawn chair
Sponsored by the Wilmette Park District
(Rain Date: Thursday, August 14, 8 pm)

Starlight Theatre Web Site

Visit our Multi-Media Center to see videos from previous shows
CLICK HERE TO JUMP TO THE VIDEO GALLERY

This show marks the 31st consecutive year
that we have been performing this show

Sunday, August 17, 2007
Illinois State Fair

4:00 – 6:00 PM
Performing in  the Ethnic Village of the State Fair Grounds
Springfield, Illinois
Sponsored by the State of Illinois
For maps, directions, and more information
Visit the official Illinois State Fair Web Site

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Buffalo Grove Days

3:00 PM
In the Craft Area
Buffalo Grove, Illinois

SEPTEMBER EVENTS

No Non-recurring Public Events Currently Scheduled for this Month

OCTOBER EVENTS

No Non-recurring Public Events Currently Scheduled for this Month

NOVEMBER EVENTS

No Non-recurring Public Events Currently Scheduled for this Month

DECEMBER EVENTS

No Non-recurring Public Events Currently Scheduled for this Month

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Web Site Link Notice:

Where available and related, we provide links to other web sites where our visitors can go to obtain more information about a particular event.  Please note that we provide this as a courtesy to our visitors.  When you click on one of those links you are leaving the domain of the Barefoot Hawaiian web site, and we can make no claim or statement regarding the content or accuracy of those web sites.   So you do not lose your place in this event list, we provide your visit to the new web site in a separate browser window. If you have a pop-up blocker installed on your computer, you must allow our web site to create pop-up windows.

Accuracy of Information Notice:

Please note that we provide the information on this web page as a service to the many followers, patrons, and audience members of the Barefoot Hawaiian.  We also provide this information as an added-value public relations service to our clients at no additional charge in an effort to help them promote their event.  Since our web pages are frequently scanned by all major search engines and receive good rankings, this contributes to increased success to our client.

In providing this service however, we must advise all our web visitors and patrons that event schedules, timetables, and certain entertainment details of an event may be changed by our client or the event's promoter — sometimes with little to no notice.  In some rarer cases, an event may be cancelled.

For events listed here that are run by or sponsored by the Barefoot Hawaiian, you have our assurance that we will make every effort to notify our customers of significant changes and to post them here immediately on this web site and keep our customers satisfied and returning.

For events listed here that are not run by us but instead are run by, sponsored by, or promoted by our client entirely, which represents most of the entries on this page, the Barefoot Hawaiian has no control or involvement in that event other than being hired entertainment.  Once we have been informed of a significant change or cancellation, we make every effort to post that information here promptly — usually within 24 hours.  For that reason, we suggest you check back with this web page often and especially a day or two before the event you were planning to attend.  You should also be checking with the event's promoter via telephone, email, or their web site for possible changes that may affect you.

Beyond this public information service, the Barefoot Hawaiian has no control, authority, or ability to handle matters or arrangements that were made between you and the event's manager.   For these, please contact the event promoter/manager/sponsor directly to resolve any business, arrangement, or issue you may have with them, or to forward all feedback to them whether complimentary or complaint.  If however,  you have a complaint of significance that you feel we should know about, see the feedback section of our Contact Page on providing us this feedback.