Open Stage 2

The first Waikīkī Steel Guitar Week Open Stage program featured steel guitarists from California, Hawai‘i and Japan, and the Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i Makua and NextGen performers.

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• Ke Kula Mele Hawaiʻi NextGen.
• NextGen bass player Iosepa Lyman.
• NextGen steel guitarist Ethan Goore.
• NextGen steel guitarist Pono Fernandez.
• NextGen steel guitarists Enosa and Mālie Lyman.
• Enosa Lyman dancing ʻʻBoy from Laupahoehoe.ʻʻ
• Kiyoshi ʻʻLionʻʻ Kobayashi also got into the hula action.
• Audience members contributed hula to the presentation. This dancer chose to dance in front of Helumoa Hale.
• Other audience members danced hula in the more conventional stage front location.
• Hanalei Moon is a familiar hula, even to Japaneses guests.
• Heuʻi Bandmann and Kumiko Kakiuchi.
• The multi-talented Kumiko Kakiuchi.
• Lion Lady Steel Guitar Ensemble from Tokyo, Japan. From left: Masako Wakamatsu, Sakae Machida, Lion Kobayashi, Yoko Tanaka, and Akiko Watanabe.
• Steel guitarist Sakae Machida.
• Steel guitarist Masako Wakamatsu.
• Steel Guitarist Yoko Tanaka.
• Steel guitarist Akiko Watanabe.
• Steel guitarist Lion Kobayashi.
• The Lion Lady Steel Guitar Ensemble announcer Haruko Ozeki.
• Steel guitarist Peter Garellick from Berkeley, California.
• Haopinaka from the San Francisco area: Peter Garellick, Vanessa Alputila, Sil Castillo, and Rod Valdez.
• Vanessa Alputila of Haopinaka.
• Sil Castillo and Rod Valdez of Haopinaka.
• Peter Garellick of Haopinaka.
• Haopinaka bass player Rod Valdez.
• Haopinaka vocalist and ʻukulele player Vanessa Alputila.
• Haopinaka hula dancer Kalena Gregory.

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