WHO IS DON TIKI?

Don Tiki is a creative collaboration of Lloyd Kandell and Kit Ebersbach. The band features Hawaii's top musicians with cumulative experience ranging from punk to jazz fusion to world beat. Don Tiki has played everywhere from local tiki dives to the Honolulu Symphony to Waikiki showrooms to glitzy Las Vegas palaces to headliners at a summer music festival in Berlin.

The following is a list of all the wonderfully talented performers who have graced our stage...

Don Tiki Brain Trust

Fluid Floyd (Lloyd) - your congenial host
Perry Coma (Kit) - shaman de musique
Tunui Tully - choreography and crazy costuming

Tiki Tribe Musicians

Abe LaGrimas - vibes, percussion, guitar
Delmar deWilde - vocals
Lopaka Colon - jungle percussion, bird calls
Hai Jung - bass, seductive vocals
Jason Segler - drums
Perry Coma - keyboards
Rockford Holmes - reeds
Ryoko Oka - keyboards, tʻrung
Sherry Shaoling - provocative vocals
Starr Kalahiki - alluring vocals
Swami James Ganeko - percussion, guitar

Restless Native Dancers

Alaana Singh
Capella Williams
Carissa Coleman
Lokelani Tully
Shylenn Hall
Tunui Tully
Willow Chang

Distinguished Don Tiki Alumnae/Alumni

bass - Dean Taba, Miles Jackson, Steve Jones, Jon Hawes
reeds - Aron Aronita, Jim Howard, Emmett Yoshioka, Tim Tsukiyama
harp - Sharene Lum
keyboards - Judy Yoshioka, Jeannette Trevias, Jacob Kohler, Eileen Uchima
percussion - Fred Alcain,  Carlinhos de Oliveira, Stacy Tangonan, Salaam Tillman, Mike Muldoon
vibes - Noel Okimoto, Bill Wiley, Francis Hoʻokano
vocals - Anita Hall, Sky Perkins, Rachel Gonzales
dancers - Julie De Mello, Kahi De La Cruz, Peka Ibana,  Michelle Izawa, Summer Jensen,  Emi Hart, Pam Sandridge, Kamakoa Page
video - Neal Izumi, Keith Kandell

Extraordinary Special Guest Performers

Martin Denny - piano
Augie Colon - percussion, bird calls
Teresa Bright - vocals
Jimmy Borges - vocals
Buddy Fo - vocals, percussion
Sammy Fo - dancer
Chant  - vocal group
Frank Q. Orrall - percussion
Henry Kapono - vocals
Hoʻokena - vocal group
Mihana Souza - vocals
Jake Shimabukuru - ukulele
Smilin' Ben Vegas - vocals, guitar

For musicians' CD credits, please click on individual CDs in the "Records" page.