2025 Keiki Kine Part 2

The 2025 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - Keiki Kine at Kahala Mall featured 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 Thang Nguyen Hi‘ipoi Lindsay, Isaac Woodward, Ever Ta‘ala, and Isabella Bertelmann were accompanied by Alan Akaka and Ke Kula Mele parents David Woodward and Kaipo Lindsey. Steel Guitarist Bobby Ingano made a special guest appearance at the festival. Emcee was Jake Kuliaikanu‘u Fernandez.

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• This youngster appears to be enjoying the steel guitar.
• Claude gives a bit of encouragement to the youngster.
• Steel guitarist Bobby Ingano with David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, and Alan Akaka.
• Kaipo Lindsey, Bobby Ingano, and Alan Akaka.
• Bobby Ingano with David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, and Alan Akaka.
• Alan Akaka.
• Claude Kutaka at the hands-on opportunities table.
• NextGEN steel guitarist Ever Taʻala with Kaipo Lindsey and Alan Akaka.
• Ever Taʻala.
• Ever Taʻala with David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, and Alan Akaka.
• Ever Taʻala and Kaipo Lindsey,
• David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, Ever Taʻala and Alan Akaka.
• Guest u-bass player Schuyler Woodward.
• NextGEN steel guitarist Isaac Woodward and Kaipo Lindsey,
• David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, Isaac Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Schuyler Woodward, and Alan Akaka.
• Isaac Woodward with Kaipo Lindsey and Bobby Ingano.
• David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, Isaac Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Schuyler Woodward, and Alan Akaka.
• David Woodward.
• David Woodward, Kaipo Lindsey, Isaac Woodward, Bobby Ingano, Schuyler Woodward, and Alan Akaka.
• Isaac Woodward and Bobby Ingano.
• Issaac Woodward and Bobby Ingano.
• Schuyler Woodward.
• NextGEN steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey,
• Isaac Woodward and Hiʻipoi Lindsey,
• Sound Technician Daniel Gilad of DG Sound Creations.
• Front Row: Isabella Bertelmann, Hiʻipoi Libdsey, Schuyler Woodward, Isaac Woodward, and Ever Taʻala. Back row: David Woodward, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey,

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Photography by Don Rostow ©2025 by Don Rostow and HIMELE.