2019 Hands On Demonstrations

The festival featured steel guitar hands-on demonstrations provided by volunteers and NextGen steel guitar players from Alan Akaka's Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i School of Hawaiian Music. Festival guests were invited to learn about the Hawaiian steel guitar and play the steel guitar under the guidance of the demonstration assistants.

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• Volunteers at the demonstration table included Heu'i Bandmann, Mālie Lyman, Pono Fernandez, and Ethan Goore. Kumu Alan Akaka gets demonstration material ready.
• Mark Gaponoff gives a festival guest some playing tips.
• Heuʻi Bandmann shows a keiki steel player how to hold the slide bar.
• Mark Gaponoff explains the picking technique to this festival guest.
• Another festival guest tries out the steel under the watchful eyes of Mark Gaponoff.
• NextGen steel guitarist Ethan Goore watches this festival guestʻs picking coordination.
• Heuʻi Bandmann explains how the slide bar works.
• Ethan Goore explains the instrument to a festival guest.
• Heuʻi Bandmann watches as a festival guest tries her luck on the steel guitar.
• The simple sign says it all in local parlance.
• Mark Gaponoff shows another festival guest how to hold and control the slide bar.

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Photography by Don Touchi ©2019 by Don Touchi Photos and HIMELE.