Ho‘olaule‘a

Friday's Ho‘olaule‘a main program featured eight steel guitarists. Program emcees were Iaukea Bright, Alan Akaka, and Danny Akaka, Jr.

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• Featured steel guitarists Dwight Tokumoto, Iaukea Bright, and Geronimo ʻʻGeriʻʻ Valdriz.
• Carol Master, Sherry Mayrent, and Alan Akaka.
• Erin Mattson with grandmother Millie Akaka.
• Erin Mattson, Millie Akaka, and Kapono Lopes.
• Featured steel guitarist Alan Akaka with Adam Asing and Kaipo Asing.
• Alan Akaka and The Islanders.
• Bass player Adam Asing.
• Alan Akaka.
• Kaipo Asing.
• Featured steel guitarist Iaukea Bright.
• Alan substituted as emcee while hoʻolauleʻa emcee Iaukea Bright performed.
• Iaukea Bright.
• Danny Akaka, Jr., the hotelʻs Kahu Hanai, shared emcee duties with his brother.
• Featured steel guitarist Kapono Lopes.
• Kapono Lopes with Adam Asing, Bobby Ingano, and Kaipo Asing.
• Featured steel guitarist Dwight Tokumoto.
• The festival banner.
• Featured steel guitarist Greg Sardinha.
• Greg Sardinha with Kapono Lopes.
• Pomai Brown on the guitar.
• Featured steel guitarist Pomai Brown.
• Pomai Brown.
• Featured steel guitarist Geronimo ʻʻGeriʻʻ Valdriz.
• Geri performs in the traditional barefoot manner.
• Adam Asing.
• Featured steel guitarist Bobby Ingano.
• The Bobby Ingano Trio.

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