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The 2026 Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Experience featuring the Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Festival will be held at the Mauna Lani, Auberge Resorts Collection, on Thursday, November 19, 2026, through Sunday November 22, 2026.

In addition to the main concert, the 2026 experience will also include school visits, workshops, Open Stage performances, a vintage steel guitar exhibit, and hands-on opportunities for festival guests.

The 2026 festival will again incoroporate the resort's Twilight at Kalahuipua‘a cultural program at the Eva Parker Woods cottage on Saturday. This outdoors musical program features festival steel guitarists and musicians and is presented around the time of the month's full moon.

Both Friday's main concert and Saturday's Open Stage Performance will be livestreamed on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Showcase's Facebook Page and YouTube Channel.

The festival is presented free to the public by the Mauna Lani, Auberge Resorts Collection and the Hawaii Institute for Music Enrichment and Learning Experiences (HIMELE) in association with the Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i School of Hawaiian Music, with grants and support from corporate partners, and private donors. Support is also provided in part by the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA), through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawai‘i or grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and by the Laurence H. Dorcy Hawaiian Foundation. Friends of the Future will provide travel accommodations for some of the festival musicians and staff.