NextGen Steel Guitarists

Photos of the NextGen steel guitarists and musicians from Alan Akaka's Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i School of Hawaiian Music.

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• HIMELE's festival banner.
• Festival guests Daphne and Dennis Rice in their new chairs.
• Emcee Harry B. Soria, Jr., with Alan Akaka.
• Next Gen steel guitarists Pono Fernandez, Tai Misailidis, and Mālie Lyman with Next Gen U-bass players Tai Misailidis and Iosepa Lyman.
• Emcee Harry B. Soria, Jr.
• Many program guests sat on the lawn.
• Harry B. Soria, Jr.
• Next Gen steel guiitarist Joey Misailidis.
• Next Gen U-bass player Tai Misailidis.
• Next Gen U-bass player Iosepa Lyman.
• Next Gen steel guitarist Pono Fernandez.
• Next Gen steel guitarist Joey Misailidis.
• Next Gen U-bass player Tai Misailidis.
• Next Gen steel guitarist Mālie Lyman.
• Addison Ching provided backup guitar for the Next Gen musicians.
• SooJean Misailidis, Jake Fernandez, Daphne and Dennis Rice, and Pomaika'i Lyman.
• Alan Akaka provided backup 'ukulele for the Next Gen musicians.
• Hula dancer Alexis Tolentino and Larry Holu.
• The Next Gen musicians with Alan Akaka and Addison Ching.
• Jumbo plumeria provided the stage backdrop.
• Alexis Tolentino danced hula.
• Alexis Tolentino.
• Harry B. Soria., Jr. describing Honolulu City and County Mayor Kirk Caldwell's proclamation designating July 9-14, 2018, as Waikiki Steel Guitar Week.
• The framed proclamation.
• Alexis Tolentino dancing with Puili Sticks to Haleakala Hula.
• Alexis Tolentino switching to the Ipu in Haleakala Hula.
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• Mālie Lyman's playing technique.
• SooJean Misailidis and Jake Fernandez.
• Alexis Tolentino.
• Andrea and Ronald Tolentino.
• Pomaikaʻi Lyman assisted daughter Mālie Lyman in singing the Hana Hou, ʻAlika.

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Photography by Don Touchi ©2018 by Don Touchi Photos and HIMELE.