Aloha Festivals Celebrates 80 Years
This year‘s theme is “80 Years of Aloha: Our Culture, Our Stories, Celebrating Our Island Home.”
Photo: Courtesy of Aloha Festivals
Aloha Festivals celebrates its anniversary this month with the theme “80 Years of Aloha: Our Culture, Our Stories, Celebrating Our Island Home.” One of the highlights, the 78th annual floral parade, takes place Sept. 26, featuring floats, marching bands, community organizations, schools, cultural groups, civic leaders and pā‘ū riding units.
Above, Dallas Cabinatan, escort for the 2025 Moloka‘i Pā‘ū Unit, wears a kukui nut neck and pāpale lei while his horse is also adorned in kukui nuts and leaves, humupapa style, where the pua are sewn to a backing.
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Katrina Valcourt is the executive editor of HONOLULU Magazine.
