2018 Festival 4

The 2018 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i featured steel guitarists Alan Akaka, Jeff Au Hoy, Bobby Ingano, Greg Sardinha, Alexis Tolentino, and the Ke Kula Mele Hawaii Next Generation steel guitarists and musicians. Photoraphy courtesy of Ricky Miya and used by permission.

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• Jeff Au Hoy with Kaipo Asing, Adam Asing, Alan Akaka, and Bobby Ingano.
• Greg Sardinha with Zach Castro and Kata Maduli. Most festival guests chose mall seating instead of the grassy area fronting the stage.
• Next Generation steel guitarists Pono Fernandez, Mālie Lyman, and Joey Misailidis.
• Next Generation steel guitarist Malie Lyman.
• Bobby Ingano and his 7-string Rickenbacher Panda with Ricky Miya.
• Next Generation steel guitarist Joey Misailidis.
• The mallʻs festival poster.
• Festival musicians. From left: Alan Akaka, Jeff Au Hoy, Alexis Tolentino, Bobby Ingano, Greg Sardinha, Mālie Lyman, and Pono Fernandez.
• Zach Castro, Greg Sardinha, and Kata Maduli.
• Emcee Akan Akaka with Zach Castro and Greg Sardinha.
• The festival poster.
• Bobby Inganoʻs vintage Rickenbacker Panda 7-string Bakelite steel guitar.
• Jeff Au Hoy with Kaipo Asing, Adam Asing, Alan Akaka, and Bobby Ingano.
• Alexis Tolentino with Kaipo Asing and Alan Akaka.
• Ka Makana Aliʻi.
• Some of the festival guests on the lawn and surrounding mall seating.
• Next Generation steel guitarist Pono Fernandez with Mālie Lyman, Tai and Joey Misailidis, Alexis Tolentino, and Alan Akaka.
• Alan Akakaʻs instruments at the standby.
• Bobby Ingano with Adam Asing.
• Ricky Miya with Alan Akaka.

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Photography by Ricky Miya ©2018 by HIMELE.