Pauline, John, Amy and Bernadette

And right now Pauline and John are thinking, "Who are Amy and Bernadette?" But that's okay because I'm not sure if Amy and Bernadette know Pauline and John. But come to think of it, Bernadette should remember John, and it's possible that Pauline grew up with Amy. Pauline Wilson and the Honolulu Jazz Quartet performed on "Sunrise" Thursday morning, but only briefly because we went live to Barrack Obama's "Ich bin ein candidate" speech in Berlin. We will have both back at their convenience, together or singly. Pauline, perhaps better knows for her work with Seawind, has the distinction of having been the first Grammy-winning singer in Hawaii, and is on the short list of really good jazz singers in the islands. John Kolivas plays bass with the Honolulu Symphony and heads the Honolulu Jazz Quartet, which has a Saturday night concert at the Doris Duke Theatre to raise funds to attend a jazz festival in California next month. It's $30 a ticket because of the fundraising need. These guys are good. My wife Bernadette, who will remember John and the quartet because they played at our wedding reception, is another topic -- all week I've been featuring Hawaii farmers as a lead-up to this weekend's Hawaii Farm Bureau annual fair at Bishop Museum. It was Bernadette who instigated this, but I never featured her, even though she'll be there, too, selling lumpia and beignets. And Amy? That's Amy Hennessy, who like Pauline Wilson hails from Hilo. She's one of the most competent public relations people in Honolulu, and at the moment she's also a Pacific Century Fellow, and blogging quite interestingly about it: http://30somethingish.wordpress.com/