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2025 Video Gallery
Most Showcase Presentations include video performances by Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i NextGen steel guitarists.
Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i - February 15, 2025 (Greg Sardinha & Po‘okela, Na Kūpuna o Ko‘olau, Kalei Yamanoha, Steve Cheney, Alan Akaka, Bobby Ingano, and NextGen Isaac, Hi‘ipoi, Ever, Enosa, Tai, Makamae, and Isabella)- Kona Steel Guitar Festival - March 1, 2025 Part 1 (Dwight Tokumoto, Colin John, NextGen Makamae Lyu-Napoleon, Devin Nakahara, NextGen Isabella Bertelmann, Alan Akaka)
- Kona Steel Guitar Festival - March 1, 2025 Part 2 (Ken Emerson, Geronimo "Geri" Valdriz, NextGen Enosa Lyman, Mālie Lyman, Billy Cardine, and Bobby Ingano)
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Windward Mall - June 6, 2025 (Na Kūpuna o Ko‘olau, Alan Akaka, Devin Nakahara, Mālie Lyman, Greg Sardinha & Po‘okela, Bobby Ingano, and NextGen Isaac, Hi‘ipoi, Enosa, Tai, Makamae, and Isabella)
- Japan-Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - July 11, 2025 (Michiyo Fujita, Yukio Katagiri, Paul Okubo, Shinichi Kakiuchi, Masami "Matt" Kobayashi, Kiyoshi "Lion" Kobayashi, Masami Sato & Makana)
- Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Festival - November 14, 2025 (Alan Akaka, Dwight Tokumoto, Geronimo "Geri" Valdriz, Ethan Goore, Greg Sardinha, Pomaika‘i Brown, Mālie Lyman, Bobby Ingano)
- Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Festival Open Stage - November 15, 2025 (Kevin Speyer, Vickie Van Fechtmann, Ethan Goore, NextGEN Isaac Woodward, NextGEN Hi‘poi Lindsey, NextGEN Charlie Ahuna, Kapono Lopes, Daniel Toft)
2025 Photo Gallery
- Livestream Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i - February 15, 2025
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i Part 1
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Ka Makana Ali‘i Part 2
- Livestream Kona Steel Guitar Festival - March 1, 2025
- Kona Steel Guitar Festival Part 1
- Kona Steel Guitar Festival Part 2
- Livestream Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Windward Mall - June 6, 2025
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Windward Mall Part 1
- Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at Windward Mall Part 2
- Livestream Japan-Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival - July 11, 2025
- Japan-Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival Part 1
- Japan-Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival Part 2
- Livestream Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Experience - November 14-15, 2025
- Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Experience Ho‘olaule‘a
- Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Experience Open Stage
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