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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University students are once again bringing a little bit of the islands to Oregon with the university's 51st annual Luau on Saturday, April 15, in Gill Coliseum.

The tradition has grown into one of the OSU largest and most successful cultural celebrations, annually attracting more than 1,000 visitors to campus.

Tickets are available from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. April 10-14 in the OSU Memorial Union Quad. Tickets for the dinner, cultural show and concert are $20 for adults and $10 for children under 12. Combination show and concert tickets are $10. Dinner tickets typically sell out each year.

For information contact OSU's Asian/Pacific American Education Office at 541-737-9033.

Sponsored by the OSU student group Hui-O-Hawaii, doors open at 5 p.m. and dinner is served at 5:30 p.m. Dinner includes kalua pork, teriyaki chicken, chicken long rice, steamed white rice, lomi lomi salmon and poi.

Following dinner, the main show features a range of Polynesian dances performed by Hui-O-Hawaii members.

The concert, featuring Hawaiian music from Pati and Kalakoa starts at 8 p.m. While based in the Pacific Northwest, all members of Kalakoa are from Hawaii. The band is known for its reggae style as well as its Hawaiian contemporary music.

Pati is one of the island's top names in "Jawaiian music," which became popular in Hawaii in the early 1990s. The sound evolved from Jamaican reggae music when bands began introducing Hawaiian references into their reggae songs.