Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - Keiki Kine Part 2

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.

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• NextGen steel guitarist Ever Taʻala
• Ever Taʻala.
• Ever Taʻala with Steve Kawachi and Alan Akaka.
• Ever Taʻala and Steve Kawachi.
• Emcee Jake Kūliaikanu‘u Fernandez.
• NextGEn steel guitarist Tai Misailidis with Bobby Ingano.
• Tai Misailidis with Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Tai with Steve and Alan.
• Hands-on specialist Claude Kouchi showing a festival guest how to use the steel bar on the steel guitar.
• A festival guest trying out the steel guitar under the supervision of Claude Kouchi.
• NextGen steel guitarist Isaac Woodward.
• Isaac Woodward.
• Isaac Woodward with Ethan Speyer, dad David Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, and Kaipo Lindsey,
• Isaac Woodward with Steve Kawachi and Alan Akaka.
• Kimo Kahoano makes a surprise appearance. From left: Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Kimo, Isaac Woodward, Steve Kawachi, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo LIndsey.
• Isaac Woodward with one of HIMELEʻs festival banners.
• Another HIMELE festival banner.
• The adult steel guitarists Bobby Ingano and Alan Akaka on stage with Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Steve Kawachi, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• David Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Alan Akaka, and Steve Kawachi.
• Ethan Speyer, David Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Steve Kawachi, and Alan Akaka.
• Alan Akaka with Steve Kawachi.
• Hula by Cindy Martin from Beijing, China.
• Cindy Martin.
• Kimo Kahoano sharing a hula.
• Kimo Kahoano.
• Kimo Kahoano.

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