Filipino divas' tour packs them in in Unalaska

Monday, April 30 2007

Unalaska, AK – Unalaska's Filipino community packed into the big gym at the City School Sunday night for a landmark event: the first performance by a Filipino artist in Unalaska.

They actually got to see four of them: Singers Kuh Ledesma, Pops Fernandez and Eric Santos and comedian Chokoleit, all of whom entertained the crowd with more than two hours of music and entertainment.

Early on in the show, Fernandez told the crowd that while this was the first performance of its kind in Unalaska, she hoped it wouldn't be the last.

"This will be the beginning of a lot of other shows that will be coming here to Unalaska," she said.

"We'll tell all the other big stars," Ledesma added.

A fan favorite was Chokoleit, who performed a one-man drag queen parody of an international beauty pageant. Concertgoer Nelly de la Cruz said after the show that he was her favorite part of the performance.

"Everyone laughed--everyone laughed at him," she said. "And I really liked the show--it was nice."

The concert was produced locally by Rose Hook, who operates the Little Manila store. Hook had originally intended to put on two shows, but plans were scaled back to one performance after it became clear that selling enough tickets for both between fishing seasons--few processing plant employees are in town this month--would be difficult.



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