An island-style festival leads off the holiday parties Friday, as Hawaii’s Finest celebrates seven years of success designing local-style clothes and presenting local concerts. The anniversary concert promises a big evening of music at the Republik, featuring Fiji, who’ll be coming over from his current home in California to headline the show. Joining him are Peni Dean (the new project of PeniDean Puaauli and Kayton “Sly Mongoose” Macariola of Natural Vibrations fame), Kapena, Maoli, Malino, Jimmy Weeks Project and Ooklah the Moc.

Calling from his home in Southern California, Fiji said he’s looking forward to it.

“I’ve been in full support of Hawaii’s Finest with their clothing line, and also they’re very adamant in promoting our island style of music,” he said. “That’s why I’m coming back. They have really reached out to many Pacific island artists, not just those from Hawaii, and try to perpetuate our way of life and our mindset surviving in this day and age.”

Perpetuating the culture of Pacific island nations is an important part of who Fiji is. He was born George Veikoso five months before his homeland received its independence from England in 1970, and Fiji’s first language was Fijian. He learned to speak fluent English when he started school, and picked up pidgin after he came to Hawaii in the 1980s.

Fiji’s career as a Hawaii recording artist took off in the early 1990s. In 1998 he won the Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Male Vocalist of the Year and was voted Favorite Entertainer of the Year. Several subsequent albums cemented Fiji’s place as a major force in Hawaii’s R&B, reggae, Jawaiian and urban music scenes. He has also been in demand as a celebrity guest vocalist.

“I’m been working on other people’s projects — J Boog’s last one, and a lot of other projects that are coming out soon. I’m always appreciative of the opportunity, always,” Fiji said.

He’s working on his own full-length album, “Old School,” scheduled for release next year. “It’s a more mellow and easy listening type of vibe,” he said. “We just released a single titled ‘Did You Know,’ and it’s been getting some nice response.

“We’ve got a lot of music coming for the new year but I held back my release because of all the new releases that are coming out. I decided to wait and allow everybody to have their time,” Fiji said. “But tell the people of Hawaii I’m standing up for them all day.”

Magicians old and young will perform Monday in the Hawaii Magic Festival, presented by the International Brotherhood of Magicians’ Ring 185 — the Hawaii Magicians Society.

“Old” is represented by dental surgeon and veteran magician David Brown, performing in character as 19th-century steampunk techno-wizard Dr. Davidio CogSprocket, an inventor from a retro-futuristic past, who will demonstrate technology he describes as “so wondrous, it almost looks like magic!”

Festival spokesman Mike Ching says the new CogSprocket act is one of the most elaborate in the show.

“I really enjoy the challenge of putting brand-new things together because it’s exciting for everybody,” Ching said. “The steampunk act I think is just going to be an awful lot of fun to watch — if you’re a magician, because you know how hard it is to put something like that together from scratch, and for audiences — who have never seen anything like it.

“A bunch of us are working on it,” he explained. “Three of us are visible and couple of people (are) behind the scenes. It’s a very complicated act that’s designed to look very simple. These machines really should not work, but somehow they do.”

From 19th-century-inspired steampunk to magicians of the future, the youngest of the “young” is 10-year old Michelle Lee, a student at Holy Family Catholic Academy. She started dabbling in the art of illusion at the age of 2, when she got into the props and devices of her father, veteran magician James Lee, president of the Hawaii magicians group. One of his specialties is illusions involving live birds. He’ll be closing the show in full formal attire.

Other performers include Glen Bailey, a specialist in table-side entertainment and magic for children and families, and sleight-of hand expert Curtis Kam, who will also emcee the evening.

Doors open an hour early for the general admission festival, and early arrivals will be entertained by strolling magicians Ron Ishimaru, Mike Wong, Yona Chock, Kent Lee and Robert Wyndham, who will be doing the up-close-and-personal type of magic that is among the most difficult “tricks” in a magician’s repertoire.

Ching invites families to come be entertained by magicians entertaining each other.

“In the old days you had to be a magician or know somebody who was a magician to get in, because they weren’t ‘shows,’ they were just yearly showcases of established people and up-and-coming talent,” he said. “But the talent pool has really grown quite a bit, and other arts, like dance and juggling, started to do magic, and we had enough performers to keep it going every year. It’s all over the map — everything from the established pros to the people who are just getting their feet wet on stage for the first time like Michelle Lee.”

Four notable touring acts round out the year in entertainment.

R&B singer-songwriter Jhene Aiko returns to the Republik on Dec. 27 and 28 for a follow-up to her sold-out one-nighter there a year ago, on Dec. 28, 2015. Aiko’s career has been on the rise since she released her mixtape, “Sailing Soul(s),” in 2011, following up with an EP, “Sail Out,” in 2013 and a full-length album, “Souled Out,” in 2014. Her most recent project, “TWENTY88,” is a collaboration with Big Sean. Her music has been described as “alternative R&B,” an edgy blend of rock and soul music.

Grammy Award winner Kenny G was a success when he played for the official grand opening of the Blue Note Hawaii in January. He returns Dec. 28 for a four-night engagement that runs through New Year’s Eve. Kenny G’s instrumental blend of jazz, R&B, Latin and pop has made him one of Hawaii’s favorite pop chart jazz artists since the 1980s.

Controversial comedian Ali Wong makes her Hawaii debut with two shows on Dec. 30 at the Hawaii Theatre. Wong achieved instant stardom in May when her stand-up special, “Baby Cobra,” aired on Netflix. Some of the press she got was about her being seven months pregnant, some of it was about material that one reviewer described as “often extremely filthy.” Filthy or not, Wong is so popular in Honolulu that a second show has been added.

Phil Lesh of Grateful Dead fame closes out 2016 with a New Year’s Eve show at the Hawaii Theatre. Lesh has earned a large and loyal following for his skill at reworking and updating Grateful Dead classics as the leader of Phil Lesh & Friends — the “friends” being a kaleidoscopic assortment of musicians with similar interests. Lesh’s friends for this show are scheduled to be Grahame Lesh (guitar), Scott Law (guitar), Ross James (guitar/pedal steel guitar), Alex Koford (percussion) and Jason Crosby (keyboards/violin).