TIKI CULTURE

Looking for a Fun Tiki Party for New Year’s Eve? If you’re in California, go to Don The Beachcomber’s Waitiki!

If I weren’t 3000 miles away at the other end of the country, I’d probably be swinging down to Huntington Beach to

Don the Beachcomber Presents WAITIKI
A Festival of Music and Cocktails
December 29 - 30 - 31, 2010

Being a Floridian, I’ve never been to Don the Beachcomber’s (Haven’t even been to CA yet, can you dig it?) but I can tell you, they come very highly recommended. And with the music of the WAITIKI 7, I have a feeling this is going to be one swingin’ shindig. Here’s the lineup:

Wednesday, December 29
“The Jazz Sides of Exotica”
with the classic WAITIKI Quartet.

Thursday, December 30
“Coronation of the Voodoo Masters”
The WAITIKI 7 with Robert Drasnin & Sherry Shaoling

Friday December 31 New Years’s Eve
“The New Sounds of Exotica”
The WAITIKI 7 with Combustible Edison Alums
Brother Cleve and The Millionaire

You can buy tickets separately for each event. For more info, visit the website at http://donthebeachcomberpresentswaitiki.com/

Here’s the WAITIKI 7 with “Rendezvous in Okonkuluku (a.k.a. ‘Das Knaben Wundertiki’)”

-Tiki Chris Pinto reporting from poolside at Pirate’s Cove Tiki Bar