2024 Festival Part 2

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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• NextGen steel guitarist Ever Taʻala.
• Ever Taʻala.
• Ever Taʻala with Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, Ethan Speyer, Thang Nguyen, David Woodward, Tessa Takeda. Kaipo Lindsey, and Michiko Akaka.
• Alan Akaka, Steve Kawachi, Ethan Speyer, Ever Taʻala, Thang Nguyen, David Woodward, and Tessa Takeda.
• Unidentified hula dancer from the audience.
• Alan Akaka.
• Featured steel guitarist Mālie Lyman.
• Mālie Lyman and Alan Akaka.
• Helen Woodward, Kaipo Asing, and Mālie Lyman.,
• Helene Woodward, Kaipo Asing, Mālie Lyman, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Helene, Mālie, and Alan.
• Kaipo Asing, Mālie, and Alan.
• Mālie Lyman.
• Helene, Kaipo Asing, Mālie, and Alan.
• Mālie joined by her mom Pomaikaʻi Keawe. Brother Enosa Lyman is in the background.
• Helene Woodward, Enosa Lyman, Kaipo Asing, Mālie Lyman, and Pomaikaʻi Keawe.
• NextGen steel guitarist Makamae Lyu-Napoleon.
• NextGen steel guitarist Isabella Bertelmann.
• Isabella Bertelmann and Alan Akaka.
• NextGen steel guitarist Enosa Lyman with Kaipo Asing and Alan Akaka.
• Helene Woodward, Kaipo Asing, Enosa Lyman, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey. Joseph Zayac can be seen in the left background.
• NextGen steel guiarist Tai Misailidis with Helene Woodward and Kaipo Asing.
• Tai Misailidis with Helene Woodward, Kaipo Asing, and Bobby Ingano.
• Featured steel guitarist Bobby Ingano.
• Bobby Ingano, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Asing.
• Helene, Kaipo Asing, and Tai.
• Kaipo Asing, Tai Misailidis, Bobby Ingano, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Bobby Ingano with Joseph Zayac and Kaipo Asing.
• Joseph Zayac.
• Joseph Zayac, Bobby Ingano, and Kaipo Asing.
• Joseph Zayac and Bobby Ingano.
• Helene Woodward, Joseph Zayac, Bobby Ingano, and Kaipo Asing.
• Featured steel guitarist Greg Sardinha.
• Poʻokela bass player Kata Maduli.
• Poʻokela guitarist Zachary Castro.
• Kata Maduli.
• Greg Sardinha.
• Greg Sardinha.
• Zach Castro.
• Greg Sardinha and Poʻokela: Zach Castro and Kata Maduli.
• Zach Castro, Greg Sardinha, and Kata Maduli.

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