Behind the Scenes

Photos of festival guests, staff, and other non-performance moments.

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• Some of Friday's festival guests
• Andrea Tolentino taking care of video recording and photography while Ron Tolentino plays bass for Alexis Tolentino.
• Gale Warshawsky assisted with the steel guitar exhibit.
• Steel guitarist Larry Holu was on had to anwer questions at the steel guitar exhibit.
• Sharon Ching and Shirley Holu also helped in the steel guitar exhibit.
• Co-emcees Harry B. Soria, Jr., and Kimo Kahoano presided over the weekend ho'olaule'a.
• Alexis Tolentino describes the steel guitar to an interested bystander.
• Japanese guests Shinichi and Kumiko Kakiuchi with Greg and Sandy Sardinha and grandson Brody at the festival sales table.
• Someone has discarded her shoes so she can dance hula.
• Ronald and Alexis Tolentino
• Kumiko and Shinichi Kakiuchi from Fujimiino, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
• Steel guitarist Geri Valdriz always performs barefoot - ''Maui Style.''
• HIMELE chairman Alan Akaka.
• Alan Akaka and Addison Ching.
• Festival guests Daphne and Dennis Rice enjoyed every performance during the entire week.
• Videographer Ronald Tolentino.
• The festival sales table with Sandy Sardinha and grandson Brody.
• Steel guitarist Eddie Palama chats with co-emcees Kimo Kahoano and Harry B. Soria, Jr.
• Shinichi and Kumiko Kakiuchi.
• Shirley Holu and Gale Warshawsky at the steel guitar exhibit.
• Steel guitarist Bobby Ingano taking a break at the steel guitar exhibit.
• Larry Holu.
• Shinichi Kakiuchi.
• Kumiko Kakiuchi.
• Kilohana Silve.
• Ronald Tolentino and Sharon Ching.
• Alan Akaka chats with exhibit guest Donell Pennington.
• Andrea Tolentino and Sharon Ching.
• Kilohana Silve (Mrs. Harry B. Soria, Jr.) and Harry B.
• Festival coordinator Addison Ching
• HIMELE directors Alan Akaka, Addison Ching, and Don Touchi.
• A Farrington High School moment: FHS graduates Bobby Ingano, Addison Ching, and Don Touchi. Missing: Ronald Tolentino.
• Photography as seen through the eyes of videography.
• Festival co-emcees Kimo Kanoano and Harry B. Soria, Jr., doing festival research between performances. Photo by Sandy Sardinha.

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Photography by Don Touchi ©2017 by Don Touchi Photos unless otherwise noted. Akk photos ©2017 by HIMELE.