Merrie Monarch Festival returns at full strength for 60th anniversary

That this is the landmark 60th anniversary year of the Merrie Monarch Festival, and the first year the ultimate hula competition is coming back full strength after three years of pandemic disruptions, means there are more events and details to coordinate, more people to herd, more complications and worries for festival President “Auntie” Luana Kawelu, and she is hardly sleeping.