Hawai‘i Island Steel Guitar Festival

School Visitation - Konawaena Elementary School

A presentation team comprising Larry Holu, Mālie Lyman, Kaipo Lindsey, and NextGEN Hi‘ipoi Lindsey visited Konawaena Elementary School to give a concert and steel guitar demonstration to the school's students. The presentation included hands-on opportunities for the group.

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  • Mālie Lyman and Kaipo Lindsey set up the sound equipment.
  • Mālie Lyman and NextGEN steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
  • Mālie and Hiʻipoi.
  • NextGEN steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey with dad Kaipo Lindsey.
  • School principal Jessica Dahlke addresses the group. Kaipo and Mālie are in the back.
  • Mālie Lyman with Kaipo Lindsey and Hiʻipoi Lindsey,
  • The Konawaena Elementary school assembly.
  • Another view of the school assembly.
  • NextGEN Hiʻipoi with Kaipo Lindsey and Mālie Lyman.
  • Kaipo, Hiʻipoi, and Mālie.
  • Principal Dahlke at the steel guitar while Kaipo and Mālie observe. Hiʻipoi works with a student trying out another steel guitar.
  • The assembly.
  • Mālie describes the function of the tone bar to a student.

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