2025 Festival Part 2

The 2025 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i featured steel guitarists Alan Akaka, Steve Cheney, Bobby Ingano, Greg Sardinha and Po‘okela (Zach Castro and Darrell Aquino) and Kalei Yamanoha. Also featured were Community Group Na Kūpuna O Ko‘olau and Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i NextGen steel guitarists Isaac Woodward, Hi‘ipoi Lindsay, Enosa Lyman, Ever Ta‘ala, Tai Misailidis, Makamae Lyu-Napoleon, and Isabella Bertelmann.

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• NextGen steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
• Hiʻipoi Lindsey with Tai Misailidis, David Woodward, Alan Akaka, Ethan Speyer, and Kaipo Lindsey and Jake Fernandez in the background.
• Alan Akaka, Hiʻipoi Lindsey, Ethan Speyer, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• NextGen steel guitarist Ever Taʻala.
• Ever Taʻala.
• Ever Taʻala.
• David Woodward.
• Ethan Speyer.
• NextGen steel guitarist Isaac Woodward,
• Isaac Woodward with dad David Woodward.
• Isaac Woodward.
• Isaac Woodward.
• Isaac Woodward with David Woodward.
• Ever Taʻala.
• Alan Akaka, Ethan Speyer, and Kaipo Lindsey.
• Steel guitarist Alan Akaka.
• Kaipo Asing.
• Alan Akaka and Ethan Speyer.
• Helene Woodward.
• Jake Fernandez and Daniel Tremblay.
• Dan says a few words about the steel guitar as Jake looks on.
• NextGen steel guitarist Makamae Lyu-Napoleon.
• Makamae Lyu-Napoleon.
• Makamae Lyu-Napoleon.
• NextGen steel guitarist Isabella Bertelmann.
• Isabella Bertelmann
• NextGen steel guitarist Enosa Lyman with Alan Akaka.
• NextGen steel guitarist Tai Misailidis with Bobby Ingano.
• Tai Misailidis.
• Tai Misailidis.
• Steel guitarist Bobby Ingano.
• Ethan Speyer.
• Helene Woodward.
• Steel guitarist Bobby Ingano.
• Bobby Ingano.

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