Innovative Giving Enhancement (IGE) has announced the dates and initial artist collective for its 2022 event in Kaua’i, HI, billed as Grateful Aloha. The event aims to offer a unique opportunity to join in musical celebration with the Kaua’i community for the benefit of a broad range of island nonprofit organizations.
The Kaua’i Immersion event, set to take place from January 3rd–11th, 2022, will welcome an artist collective featuring Nicki Bluhm, Holly Bowling, Matt Butler, James Casey, Chris Chew, Natalie Cressman, Ian Faquini, Jennifer Hartswick, Vince Herman, Ross James, Led Kaapana, Eric Krasno, Scott Law, Grahame Lesh, Bill and Jilian Nershi, Elliott Peck, Peter Rowan, and more to be announced.
Through the intimate IGE Music and Art Immersion experience, limited to 150 participants, boundaries dissolve between musicians and fans, performers and spectators, participants and environments at a variety of dynamic venues across the island. Immersion concerts and jams integrate Mainland Musical Ambassadors with the finest of Kaua’i and islandwide Hawaiian players for a series of five public performances and additional concerts exclusively for the handful of IGE participants over the course of nine days and eight nights.
By design, participants are woven within the fabric of every unique, daily experience as together with their favorite musical icons they encounter the tropical splendor of Kaua’i and the richness of Hawaiian culture. Participants foster community with their favorite musical icons while experiencing larger-scale concerts, intimate collaborations of curated supergroups, and intercultural jams, as well as significant performances by legendary Hawaiian master musicians, local artists, and dance troupes.
Grateful Aloha Immersion participants enjoy nightly concerts and unique musical performances across a palette of tropical atmospheric venues ranging from state of the art concert halls to mind-blowing botanical gardens, magical pavilions to enchanted churches, grand estates to iconic restaurants.
Beyond the musical connections and performances, IGE participants offer direct benefit to a broad coalition of Kaua’i social, cultural, environmental, and artistic non-profits and artist communities. IGE Musical Ambassadors and Hawaiian All-Stars join together with the local community in collaborative support for Kaua’i Hospice, Kaua’i Independent Food Bank, Kaua’i Community College Creative Media Program, Kaua’i Concert Association, Garden Island Arts Council, Music in the Schools, Youth performing arts organizations, Kauai Planning & Action Alliance, Anaina Hou, Surfrider Foundation Kaua’i, and Kaua’i’s Boys and Girls Clubs.
IGE Music and Art Immersions are unlike other destination musical events. Grateful Aloha is a top-tier intercultural musical arts retreat in support of the Kaua’i community. The benefit concert series is entirely funded through IGE’s international donor community permitting 100% of every dollar raised on island through ticket revenue and donations to remain on Kaua’i funding educational, environmental, mental health, food security, end of life, and arts charities.
Reservations for IGE’s 2022 Kaua’i Music and Art Immersion are available now with capacity extremely limited to retain the intimacy of the immersive environment. Individual general admission tickets for concerts at Kaua’i Community College, Smith’s Tropical Paradise, and Anaina Hou will be on sale in early November. GA ticket prices will range in price from $20 – $65 depending on show and seating.
Complete details on 2022 registrations, participant and artist testimonials, along with photo and video recaps of prior trips can be found here. Past IGE Immersion events have taken artists and fans to Portugal, Spain, Italy, and more.
For a peek at the magic of IGE events, check out the recap video from the 2019 IGE event in Lisbon, Portugal below.
IGE Music & Art Immersion – Portugal 2019 – Recap Video
[Video: IGE Music and Art Immersions]
