2016 Festival 1

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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• Ke Kula Mele Hawaii steel guitarist Joey Misailidis.
• Joey Misailidis.
• Ke Kula Mele Hawaii students Tai Misailidis on U-bass with Alexis Tolentino playing 'ukulele.
• Joey Misailidis plays the steel guitar, accompanied by Alexis Tolentino and Mālie Lyman on ʻukulele.
• Joey Misailidis on steel guitar, sister Tai Misailidis on U-bass, and Kumu Alan Akaka on guitar.
• Alexis Tolentino, Tai Misailidis, Mālie Lyman, and Alan Akaka.
• Joey Misailidis, Alexis Tolentino, Tai Misailidis, Mālie Lyman, and Alan Akaka.
• Ke Kula Mele Hawaii steel guitarist Mālie Lyman.
• Mālie Lyman.
• Mālie Lyman, Alexis Tolentino, Iosepa Lyman on U-bass, and Alan Akaka.
• Mālie Lyman.
• Mālie Lyman's steel guitar technique.
• Mālie Lyman.
• Iosepa Lyman on U-bass.
• Iosepa Lyman.
• Steel guitarist Alexis Tolentino with Alan Akaka on guitar.
• Alexis Tolentino
• Alexis Tolentino with Alan Akaka on guitar and dad Ronald Tolentino on U-bass.
• Alexis Tolentino demonstrates her technique.
• Alan Akaka, Alexis Tolentino, and Ronald Tolentino.
• Alan Akaka, Alexis Tolentino, and Ronald Tolentino.
• Alexis Tolentino with Kumu Alan Akaka.
• Alexis Tolentino with dad Ronald Tolentino on bass and Alan Akaka and The Islanders (Adam Asing and dad Kaipo Asing.)
• Hula by Leilani Kahoano.
• Emcee Kimo Kahoano with wife Leilani Kahoano dancing to Alan Akaka and The Islanders.
• Adam Asing, Alan Akaka, and Kaipo Asing.
• Kaipo Asing.
• Adam Asing.
• Adam Asing.
• Alan Akaka and The Islanders.

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Photography by Don Rostow ©2016 by Donald Rostow and HIMELE.