If you have
been following our new 2010-2011 school year and new
season of classes, you know all about HúGáSM and
maybe have even attended a session or are even a
regular. If not, please visit our Dance Studio
page for the full details.
For the
month of October, following are the HúGáSM
themes of each week of October:
- October 4-9: ‘Drumnesia’
Tone your body to the rhythmic sounds of native
drums gently beating in the forests of Polynesia.
- October 11-16: "Stand
Up and Be Counted"
An all standing workout, no floor mats or pads
needed.
- October 18-23: "Fire, Water, Wind"
The hot, the fluid, the cool – unwind and heal
to the sounds and effects of nature.
- October 25-30: "Spooky HúGáSM"
In celebration of Halloween.
HúGáSM
is perfect for moms, dads, guys, girls with a busy
lifestyle. It’s great for those who find it hard
to have time for regular exercise.
As a
reminder, here is the weekly schedule of HúGáSM
sessions:
Mondays: 9:15 - 10:00 PM
Tuesdays: 5:30 - 6:15 PM
Tuesdays: 8:30 - 9:15 PM
Thursdays: 8:45 - 9:30 PM
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"Hulaween"
is the way we, at the Barefoot Hawaiian, celebrate
Halloween and we are ready to celebrate it with you,
Hawaiian Style.
Up in the
air about a Halloween party or theme? Consider
having it Polynesian style. Everyone is to come
dressed to your party or event in a Hawaiian,
Polynesian, or other South Pacific island themed
costume.
Invite your
guests to come to the Barefoot Hawaiian store for what
they need to make up their very own and unique
costume. Our staff can help your with ideas to
pull off the island you wish to represent. Want
to be a savage New Zealand Warrior or a sexy Tahitian
Dancer? We can show you how. And instead
of something cheaply made from the costume isle of
the discount store, get something that will last and
can be worn year after year, and will look great on
you for the luau you plan to have or attend next
summer
Plus, with a
performance purchase everyone attending your party
receives a discount in our store. Our Halloween
performances include hula lessons for everyone and our
expert performers will serve as the perfect impartial
judges for your costume contest. We can judge
for the best male, best female, most authentic, most
native-like, and so on. Moreover, for Halloween,
we will provide a free gift or gifts (depending on
size of the performance you order) to award to the
winner or winners. For children's parties, our
Hulaween entertainment can include the telling of an
age-appropriate authentic Hawaiian ghost story.
Our Hulaween
performance is also excellent choice entertainment for
October Festivals (Octoberfest) that you are running
in your town or at your establishment.
Call us now
to ask about all the ways we can help you run a great
Halloween party.
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Immediately after Halloween, we depart from scary
costumes into pure fun as we head into the Thanksgiving
and the Christmas seasons, with a children's favorite,
our Keiki Karnival, right here on location at the
Barefoot Hawaiian.
"Keiki Karnival"
Sunday, November 1, 2009
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Great fun for
children of all ages. Entry is FREE. Tickets to play games, only 25 cents each.
Get a personal portrait done by "Kapela," our resident artist, for only $10.
Games for Children with prizes
awarded:
- Ring Toss
-
Tiki Bowling
-
Bozo Pumpkins
-
Bean Bag Game
-
Hula Hoops
-
Coconut Roll/Wheel of Fortune
-
Spray Away Game
-
Clothespin Drop
Held at:
The Barefoot Hawaiian
1401 East Oakton Street
Des Plaines, Illinois 60018
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As you get
up early Thanksgiving morning to start cooking your
Thanksgiving feast, be sure to tune into WGN-TV, Channel 9,
from 8:00 - 11:00 AM to catch our performance in the McDonald's Thanksgiving Day Parade,
a.k.a, the Chicago State Street Thanksgiving Day
Parade. Enjoy watching our Professional Fire-Knife Performers,
Professional Dancers, Keiki Division Dancers, Drummers,
Banner Carriers, and more entertain you while you cook
or enjoy your morning coffee.
Better
still, come on down and catch the parade in person.

Thanksgiving
Holiday Store, Office, & School Hours:
The Barefoot Hawaiian Office, Store, & School will be
closed Thursday & Friday, November 28 & 29 in
honor of Thanksgiving. Normal business and hours resume
Saturday, November 30.
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For the
month of November, following are the HúGáSM
themes of each week of November:
- November 1-6: ‘Hawaiian
Spa’
- November 8-13: "Sun,
Sand, Sea"
- November 15-20: "Island
Dreams"
- November 22-23:
"Free HúGáSM"
As our special way of showing our gratitude,
for the week of Thanksgiving, classes are free -
Space is limited, advanced sign up required.
Call or send an email. For the Thanksgiving
week, we will only be having classes on Monday and
Tuesday.
- November 29 -
November 30: "Peace and Tranquility"
Please note that HúGáSM
will run only on Monday and Tuesday of this
week. No HúGáSM
sessions will be run on Thursday and Saturday.
HúGáSM
is perfect for moms, dads, guys, girls with a busy
lifestyle. It’s great for those who find it hard
to have time for regular exercise.
As a
reminder, here is the normal weekly schedule of HúGáSM
sessions:
Mondays: 9:15 - 10:00 PM
Tuesdays: 5:30 - 6:15 PM
Tuesdays: 8:30 - 9:15 PM
Thursdays: 8:45 - 9:30 PM
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Mele Kalikimaka means Merry Christmas in
Hawaiian, and Santa is on his way. (But with his
mask on this year)

You are listening to "Christmas in Hawaii" by Danny
Couch. Used with permission by Danny Couch. We carry this CD in our store
The Barefoot
Hawaiian has items and entertainment to offer you this holiday season and
much of what you need to provide you with a Christmas in
Hawaii. However, and unfortunately, we have had to
downsize some of our normal and regular Christmas
offerings this year due to COVID-19.
Please note
that due to these changes, we are not posting our normal
Mele Kalikimaka web page this year because so many items
featured on it will not apply or can be offered at this
time
In the
way of entertainment and performances we feature special
holiday season shows. These shows feature special
Christmas costumes, music, hulas, and more.
Due to COVID-19, no public
shows have yet been scheduled
Please contact our office
regarding any private performances you need with the
Christmas theme.
The Barefoot
Hawaiian gears up its store for gift and holiday shopping.
Get that unique gift for the hard-to-buy-for person in
your life. We have Christmas Aloha Shirts,
Christmas Stockings, Tree Ornaments, Holiday Music, and
more.
Please contact the store for
the stock of items we have and to see if your desired
item is available, and/or to schedule an appointment for
your own private shopping.
Special
Holiday Shopping Day
Sunday, December 20, 2020
12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM
Barefoot Hawaiian Holiday Shopping Open House
No appointment needed - but...
Face masks and 6-foot distancing required
Come in and get those last
minute gifts
Special Holiday Open Hours
Special Sunday Holiday
Shopping
December 20, 2020
See above for details
(We are not normally open on Sundays)
Holiday Closures:
As always each year, we
will be closed
Thursday & Friday, December 24 & 25, 2020
for Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
and on
Friday, January 1, 2021
for New Year's Day
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Happy New Year
from the Barefoot Hawaiian
We hope
everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that you are now
looking forward to celebrating the entrance of a new
year.
In honor of
the holidays, our store and business office will be
closed on the following dates:
- Tuesday, December 31
- Wednesday, January 1
- Thursday, January 2
Full business resumes
Friday, January 3 with all normal store and business operating hours.
Dance classes resume from Christmas break on Monday,
January 6.
Celebrate
bringing in the new year with us
Join us for
the following:
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
New Year's Eve Dinner Show at Chef Shangri-La
Visit our Event Schedule page for
full details
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The Barefoot
Hawaiian wishes everyone a happy and wonderful year in
2021. It has got to be better than the year we
just had. We hope that in spite of everything, you
were able to enjoy the holiday
season.
We are looking
forward to bringing Hawaii to you in 2021 just as the
Barefoot Hawaiian, Inc. has been bringing to you since
1983, and Barefoot Hawaiian owners and founders, under
the previous name, have been bringing to you since
1973.
With 2021, we enter into our
48th year
of bringing Hawaii to you and the entire North American
mainland. We pray the spirits of Aloha bless us this
year and put all the trials that we encountered in 2020
well behind us and bring that spirit of Aloha to each
and everyone of you better and brighter than ever
before.
Happy New Year
from the Barefoot Hawaiian
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Love is in the
air at this time of year, and the Barefoot Hawaiian is
ready to celebrate St. Valentine's Day and the season
with you.
For Valentine
performances, our shows focus beautifully around love
and the "Be My Valentine" theme.
Our performances will feature special love songs and
dances. You will hear the Hawaiian Wedding Song,
Blue Hawaii, and many others.
So whether you
need entertainment for your private party, a corporate
event, or for your restaurant or lounge, consider the
romance of Hawaii as a theme. And if you have a
special someone you need to impress or romance (perhaps
even propose to?), let us know, and we will include you
into the show as part of what you need to carry out for
that someone special. We can even teach you how to
say "I Love You" in Hawaiian
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Okay, by now
we are all starting to feel the Winter blues and eagerly
awaiting the delightful Spring weather to arrive,
especially after this rough Winter. Change that by
getting into the Aloha spirit now.
Whether you
are a community organization, a company, or a family,
now is actually one of the best times to have us out for
a Hawaiian show. For one, we are more available
during this generally-considered off-season here in the
Northern Midwest versus the high demand we encounter
during the late-Spring and Summer Luau season.
Two, your family, friends, employees, or public is also
generally more available at this time of year for a
little festivity. Three, who would not love your
bringing a little Aloha warmth into their lives at this
colder time of year?
Don't want to
host a party yourself? Then come out to one of our
public appearances at this time of year ...
Here's the
proof that this can be a good time of year for a little
Aloha. Here is what some of our open-to-the-public
clients are doing:
Sunday, March 8, 2014
Chicagoland Kids Expo
Sunday, March 8, 2014
Addison Library WorldFest
Saturday, March 16, 2014
Cheeseburger in Paradise St. Patrick's Day Show
Visit our Event Schedule web page
for the details.
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Are you
considering having a luau or Hawaiian-theme party this
coming spring or summer?
If so, then
our expert advice to you is that you should already be
well into planning it, especially if your luau will be
held on a weekend during the months from May to
September. If your weekend party will be or
extend into the evening — Friday, Saturday, or Sunday
evening — then your early planning is even more
crucial.
The most
important early planning issues:
DATE
— If you are planning on a weekend luau in spring or
early summer,
deciding the date and approximate time is the most
important planning issue and you should have this already
determined by March to ensure a successful event.
ENTERTAINMENT
(DANCERS) — The next most important issue
after deciding the date, is acquiring your Polynesian
dance entertainment. Even with our huge troupe of
professional dancers (the largest in the Midwest) we can
still become fully booked with every performer assigned
to a show on a weekend day during the spring and summer. To
avoid hearing, "Sorry, we are fully booked that
day." call us early. If you want more than
two dancers, you should be contacting us by March to
ensure getting what you want. FIRE
DANCERS — These performers require
special mention. There are only a handful of
professional fire knife performers in the Chicago
area. Most Hawaiian companies have none. The
Barefoot Hawaiian provides more than 90% of the fire
performances in the Chicago area. Moreover, we are
fully insured to perform fire; most other companies are
not. A fire performance in the evening on a summer
weekend is the most spectacular and most desired
performance. If you want a fire performance for
your luau, make these arrangements very early. MUSICIANS
— These performers also require special
mention. There are only a small number of Hawaiian
musicians in the Chicago area. Some Hawaiian
companies have none and offer only music on CD.
The Barefoot Hawaiian has a soloist, one full band,
and a couple of two-person ensembles. For live
Tahitian drumming, we have several trained and qualified
Tahitian drummers. If you want live music or
drumming or both for your Spring or Summer luau, these
arrangements also need to be made very early. Plan
early and you can be sure of getting the dancers,
fire dancers, live music, and the Polynesian cuisine
that you want and need for a successful luau.
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Preface:
COVID-19 Impact — It
has become quite clear that the Coronavirus COVID-19
pandemic has put a real damper on trying to plan
anything for this Spring. However, in the interest
of optimism, we don't want you not to look forward to
better days ahead this Summer. In effort to help
you plan for a promising Summer, yet not take unnecessary
risks, we are being flexible in our contracted bookings
with cancellation privileges due to a continuing
COVID-19 pandemic. So plan ahead and call
us. We are all in this together. That's the
Spirit of Aloha way!
So, are you
considering having a luau or Hawaiian-theme party this
coming summer?
If so, then
our expert advice to you is that you should already be
well into planning it, especially if your luau will be
held on a weekend during the summer months from Mid-June
to Mid-September. If your weekend party will be or
extend into the evening — Friday, Saturday, or Sunday
evening — then your early planning is even more
crucial.
The most
important early planning issues:
DATE
— If you are planning on a weekend luau in summer,
deciding the date and approximate time is the most
important planning issue and you should have this already
determined by May to ensure a successful event.
ENTERTAINMENT
(DANCERS) — The next most important issue
after deciding the date, is acquiring your Polynesian
dance entertainment. Even with our huge troupe of
professional dancers (the largest in the Midwest) we can
still become fully booked with every performer assigned
to a show on a weekend day during the summer. To
avoid hearing, "Sorry, we are fully booked that
day." call us early. If you want more than
two dancers, you should be contacting us by May to
ensure getting what you want. FIRE
DANCERS — These performers require
special mention. There are only a handful of
professional fire knife performers in the Chicago
area. Most Hawaiian companies have none. The
Barefoot Hawaiian provides more than 90% of the fire
performances in the Chicago area. Moreover, we are
fully insured to perform fire; most other companies are
not. A fire performance in the evening on a summer
weekend is the most spectacular and most desired
performance. If you want a fire performance for
your luau, make these arrangements very early. MUSICIANS
— These performers also require special
mention. There are only a small number of Hawaiian
musicians in the Chicago area. Some Hawaiian
companies have none and offer only music on CD.
The Barefoot Hawaiian has two soloists, one full band,
and a couple of two-person ensembles. For live
Tahitian drumming, we have several trained and qualified
Tahitian drummers. If you want live music or
drumming or both for your Summer luau, these
arrangements also need to be made very early. Plan
early and you can be sure of getting the dancers,
fire dancers, live music, and the Polynesian cuisine
that you want and need for a successful luau.
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Somehow most
people believe that a Hawaiian luau can only be held in
the summer months here in the Midwest.
While the
summer months are often most preferred, consider this
excellent advice: Have your luau in the
Spring. A luau in May and the first half of June,
has much to offer:
Hawaiian
Weather
— Hawaii is not 95 degree temperatures with the
high muggy humidity we see here in the Midwest.
Its temperature are in the 70's with a nice ocean
breeze. Holding your luau in late spring comes
closer to the Hawaiian outdoors than the summer months
do here in the Midwest. Plus, enjoy fewer bugs.
More
Available Bookings
— If you read the previous section on luau
planning you know that getting everything you need for a
Summer luau required early planning, and may require
more phone calls and more turndowns. Hold your
luau in the Spring and you will find it much easier to
get your entertainment, music, and more. For a
Spring luau we can often send out a dancer same
day. We often can provide musicians, several
dancers, fire, drummers, etc. with just a few days
notice. So have that last minute luau this coming
weekend and call us.
Spring
Public Shows
— The Barefoot Hawaiian performs many great
public shows in the Spring. For 2015, we have over
a dozen public shows that we are performing in Spring.
Visit our Event Schedule to see the complete list.
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Summer is here
and it is Luau season. Need we say more? Whatever you have planned,
consider adding music and entertainment from the
Barefoot Hawaiian to your event. We work all Summer long.
While advanced
planning is always encouraged and preferred to ensure
your dancer or musician is available and reserved for
you, don't hesitate to call us for last-minute additions
to your event to make it the best it can be.
Whether you
are planning a year in advance or decide today your want
a dancer for your party tomorrow, we specialize in both
and can often accommodated your final-minute emergency
needs.
So call now,
847-699-7336.
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Have a
Hawaiian-Style Birthday Party for your child or
children right here at the Barefoot Hawaiian in our
all new for 2019 Dance Studio and Party Room
We offer two
different packages.
Select the one right for you - Hawaiian or Tahitian
Hula
Honey Package
- Each child learns his
or her own Hawaiian name
- Children make their
own head garland
- 45-minute Hawaiian
Hula Lesson
- Attire to wear during
the lesson provided
- Children learn
Hawaiian words
- Children learn facts
about Hawaii
Tahitian
Princess Package
- Each child learns his
or her Tahitian name
- Children make their
own Tahitian Flower to wear
- 45-minute Tahitian
Drum Dance Lesson
- Attire to wear during
the lesson provided
- Children learn
Tahitian words
- Children learn facts
about the islands of Tahiti
To learn more and get the
full details on this very unique and special way to
celebrate your child's next birthday, download the
full flier below.
Keiki Birthday Parties 2019 Flier (600K)
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Girl Scouts
and Brownies, learn the traditions, ethnicity and
practices of the Hawaiian and Polynesian cultures and
earn a patch proving that you worked this program.
Intended to
be run at the troop level, Girl Scout and Brownie
troops, with adult troop leader involvement, this
package, is specifically designed for scouts or
brownies to earn a patch denoting their participation
in this program.
This is a
field-trip program for the troops run right here at
the Barefoot Hawaiian studios. It's like a
min-trip to Hawaii for your girls.
The
program includes:
- Making a Hawaiian
craft each girl keeps
- Learning the Hawaiian
Hula
- Grass skirt to wear during
the lesson provided
- Learning a Tahitian
Drum Dance
To learn more and get the
full details on this 2-1/2 hour program on this very unique
way for scouts or brownies to earn a cultural patch, download the
full flier below.
Girl Scout & Brownie Program 2019 Flier (441K)
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Known as "HUI
ALOHA" or a
gathering of friends, this is a unique way
for adults to escape and gather in friendship for a
special kind of party.
No need to
prepare your home for a party as it is all held right
here at the "Barefoot Hawaiian Island," as we
call it, or a/k/a, our all new studio and party room.
Consider Hui
Aloha for your next
- Adult Birthday Party
- Senior Group
Field-Trip Event
- Bachelorette Party
- Retirement Party
- Anniversary Party
(Especially if your Honeymoon was in Hawaii)
The 2-1/2
Hour program includes for each adult
- Learning the
authentic Hawaiian art of "Haku"
(Making an adornment for your head or neck to wear
and keep)
- Learning the Hawaiian
Hula
- Learning a Tahitian
Drum Dance
- Participate in a surprise
Polynesian Experience
To learn more and get the
full details on Hui Aloha for
your next adult event, download the
full flier below.
Adult Parties 2019 Flier (441K)
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