2024 Festival Part 1

The 2024 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i featured steel guitarists Alan Akaka, Steve Cheney, Bobby Ingano, Mālie Lyman, and Greg Sardinha and Po‘okela (Zach Castro and Kata Maduli.) Also featured were Community Group Na Kūpuna O Ko‘olau and Ke Kula Mele Hawaiāi NextGen steel guitarists Isaac Woodward, Hi‘ipoi Lindsay, Thang Nguyen, Enosa Lyman, Ever Ta‘ala, Tai Misailidis, Makamae Lyu-Napoleon, and Isabella Bertelmann.

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• Na Kapuna O Koʻolau: Yvonne Bangay, Steve Kawachi, Claude Kutaka, and Myra O’Brien.
• Yvonne Bangay, Steve Kawachi, Claude Kutaka, and Myra O’Brien.
• Lori Adolewski , Momi Irvine and June Clark.
• Emcee Jake Fernandez.
• Backup musician Helene Woodward.
• Featured steel guitarist Steve Cheney with Helene Woodward and Kaipo Asing.
• Steve Cheney with Kaipo Asing, Alan Akaka and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Steve Cheney.
• Alan Akaka.
• Kaipo Asing.
• Kaipo Lindsey.
• Helene Woodward and Steve Cheney, with other backup musicians in the background.
• The performers' view of the audience.
• A Rogue steel guitar set up at the hands-on experience table.
• Temporary numbers mark each fret position for training purposes.
• Featured steel guitarist Alan Akaka with Kaipo Asing.
• Kaipo and Alan.
• Alan with Kaipo Asing and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Emcee Jake Fernandez.
• Claude Kutaka was in charge of the Hands-on Experience table.
• Alan Akaka with Helene Woodward, Kaipo Asing, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Hula by unidentified members of the audience.
• The unidentified hula dancers said they were from Nanakuli.
• NextGen steel guitarist Thang Nguyen with David Woodward and Kaipo Lindsey. Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, and Ethan Speyer are in the background.,
• Thang Nguyen with Alan Akaka.
• Thang Nguyen with Alan Akaka, Jake Fernandez, and Steve Kawachi.
• David Woodward and Kaipo Lindsey with Steve Kawachi and Ethan Speyer in the background.
• Steve Kawachi on bass with David Woodward.
• Ethan Speyer.
• Tessa Takeda.
• Tessa Takeda, Ever Taʻala, and Michiko Akaka.
• Steve Kawachi.
• NextGen steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• Kaipo Lindsey (Hiʻipoi Lindsey's dad), Ever Taʻala, and Michiko Akaka.
• Hiʻipoi Lindsey, Ethan Speyer, Thang Nguyen, David Woodward, and Tessa Takeda.
• Thang Nguyen, David Woodward, Tessa Takeda, Ever Taʻala, Kaipo Lindsey, and Michiko Akaka.
• Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, Ethan Speyer, and Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• NextGen steel guitarist Isaac Woodward.
• Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, Ethan Speyer, Isaac Woodward, Thang Nguyen, David Woodward, and Tessa Takeda.
• Isaac Woodward with Alan Akaka and Kaipo Lindsey,
• Alan Akaka, Isaac Woodward, David Woodwrd, Steve Kawachi, Kaipo Lindsey, Ethan Speyer, Thang Nguyen, Tessa Takeda, and Michiko Akaka

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Photography by Eddie Freeman ©2024 by Eddie Freeman and HIMELE.