The Kamehameha Day festival featured students from Alan Akaka's Ke Kula Mele Hawaii School of Hawaiian Music and steel guitar masters Alan Akaka, Eddie Palama, Jeff Au Hoy, Bobby Ingano, and Greg Sardinha.
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Mālie Lyman.
Kumu Alan Akaka.
Mālie Lyman on steel guitar with Alan Akaka on guitar and brother Iosepa Lyman on U-bass.
Ronald Tolentino.
Steel guitarist Joey Misailidis.
Tai Misailidis on U-bass.
Shirley Holu and Andrea Tolentino.
SooJean Misailidis and Andrea Tolentino.
Shirley and Larry Holu.
Ronald Tolentino.
Tai and Joey Misailidis, Alan Akaka, Alexis Tolentino, Bobby Ingano, and Mālie Lyman.
Joey Misailidis on steel guitar, accompanied by Alexis Tolentino and Mālie Lyman on ʻukulele, Tai Misailidis on U-bass, and Alan Akaka on guitar.
Joey Misailidis.
Mālie Lyman.
Bobby Ingano is in the audience, enjoying the festival program.
Kaipo Asing and Bobby Ingano.
Adam Asing.
Iosepa Lyman.
Mālie Lyman on steel guitar, accompanied by Alexis Tolentino on ʻukulele, Iosepa Lyman on U-bass, and Alan Akaka on guitar.
John Misailidis.
Iosepa Lyman.
Alan Akaka and Alexis Tolentino.
Alexis Tolentino.
Festival photographer Don Rostow.
Alexis Tolentino on steel guitar.
Alexis Tolentino accompanied by Alan Akaka and Ronald Tolentino.
Emcee Kimo Kahoano.
Leilani Kahoano.
Leilani and Kimo Kahoano.
Hula by Leilani.
Leilani Kahoano.
Featured artist Alan Akaka with Adam and Kaipo Asing (The Islanders) and emcee Kimo Kahoano and wife Leilani doing hula.Back to Gallery: 2016 Festival
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