Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - Keiki Kine Part 1

The 2024 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - Keiki Kine was held at Kāhala Mall and featured six NextGen steel guitar players from Alan Akaka's Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i School of Hawaiian Music in a two-hour performance. NextGen steel guitarists Isabella Bertelmann, Hi‘ipoi Lindsey, Makamae Lyu-Napoleon, Tai Misailidis, Ever Ta‘ala, and Isaac Woodwawrd performed with backup band members Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, Kaipo Lindsey, Ethan Speyer, and David Woodward. Emcee was Jake Kūliaikan‘u Fernandez.

Drag mouse over thumbnails and click to select picture or use controls for slideshow. These photos also appear on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - Keiki Kine website.

• Hands-on specialist Claude Kutaka explains the steel guitar to a festival guest.
• A festival guest tries out the steel guitar under the guidance of Claude Kutaka.
• Emcee Jake Kūliaikanʻu Fernandez.
• NextGen steel guitarist Makamae Lyu-Napoleon.
• Some of the festival guests.
• Makamae Lyu-Napoleon with Steve Kawachi, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Makamae with Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Steve Kawachi, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• David Kekoa Woodward from group Walea.
• Makamae Lyu-Napoleon.
• Ethan Speyer, Steve Kawachi, and David Woodward.
• Ethan Speyer and Steve Kawachi.
• Another view of the festival audience.
• NextGen steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Steve Kawachi, Hiʻipoi Lindsey, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey, Hiʻipoi's dad.
• Kaipo Lindsey.
• Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• Hiʻipoi with Steve and Alan.
• NextGen steel guitarist Isabella Bertelmann.
• Isabella Bertelmann.
• ISabella Bertelmann with Steve Kawachi.
• Isabella and Steve.
• David Kekoa Woodward.
• Claude Kutaka at the hands-on demonstration station.
• Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Steve Kawachi, Isabella Bertelmann, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey.

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Photography by Don Rostow ©2024 by Don Rostow and Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i.