Veteran Entertainer Don Conover

At Hawaii Yacht Club - 6:30 - 9:30 PM

Increasing numbers of members are now catching Don Conover's Vintage Piano Bar Shows from 6:30 to 9:30 pm on 1st and 3rd Saturdays. (Perennial favorite Ron Miyashiro will return to his regular 3rd Saturdays in December). Don recently celebrated his first year of performing at the club and for good reason. Tables are filling up not only to enjoy beautiful sunsets, scrumptious cuisine and delectable drinks, but the "magic fingers" of Don along with the many fine singers and dancers who spontaneously appear out of his audience. Two club members who regularly sing with him are Lorna Kaeck and Judge Patrick O'Connor.

Don has entertained at most of the major hotels and restaurants in Honolulu and for 16 years led the internationally-renowned singalongs at Waikiki's Rose & Crown Pub. March 17th was a busy St. Patrick's Day for Don…he performed with his band [in green outfit and beard!] from noon to four at the Waikiki Elks Club and then from 7 to 10 here at the club, leading the audience with his Irish Ditties and Bawdy Ballad singalongs. The day also held a Release Party for his new double CD album "The Best of the Rose and Crown Pub".

Honolulu Star-Advertiser columnist Wayne Harada pronounced Don "A Master of the Ivories" after hearing him perform. He also frequently appears as a house organist at the historic (1923) Hawai'i Theatre where he performed in Carol Channing's One-Woman Show and The Three Phantoms in Concert with Ballet Hawai'i.

Wearing "other hats", Don has musically directed numerous Broadway shows in Western New York and Honolulu and is in his 35th year serving as minister of music at Church of the Crossroads, United Church of Christ. He has founded scholarships that have awarded over $125,000.00 to assist voice and organ students in their quest to cultivate their singing and playing skills.

Conover has performed in partnership with singers virtually all of his adult life, including Broadway actor/singer Ernest Harada, who serves as the affable singing host wherever Don entertains. Harada and Conover performed their two-man show "From Broadway to Hawai'i with Songs In Between" in New York and Connecticut this past summer.

Don is a member of the American Guild of Organists, Hawai'i Chapter and a Life Member of the American Choral Director's Association. He has instructed in music theory and choral music at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa where he earned an MA in Music Education.

I guarantee that you will not be disappointed any time you come out to enjoy Don Conover entertain. He's open to requests, encourages singers to join him as well as involves the whole audience in singing familiar melodies. Well-known entertainers such as Cabaret and Jazz Star Shari Lynn, Hawai'i Opera Theatre's Buz Tennent and Broadway's Mary Gutzi (who will be starring in "Sunset Boulevard" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opening later this month at Diamond Head Theatre), are known to stop in and belt out a tune or two! And you are the first to know that Don will release two new solo piano CD albums before the end of the year: A Lei of Songs for You and Songs From a Tropical Paradise.