Kukui Grove Festival
An abbreiated one-day festival was presented at the Kukui Grove Center in Lihue on Sunday, May 5, 2024. THe abbreviated festival was necessary due to insufficient planning time available for a comprehensive festival at a new Kaua‘i venue.
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Hiʻipoi, Isabella, and Makamae are getting fueled up for their performance.
Kukui Grove Center sound check with Helene Woodward, Alan Akaka, Kaipo Asing, and Kaipo Lindsey.
More sound check with Helene Alam, Kaipo Asing, and Kaipo LIndsey.
The performance venue is adjacent to a food court, providing ample seating for guests to eat and enjoy the festival.
Featured steel guitarist Alan Akaka with Helene Woodward, Kaipo Asing, and Kaipo Lindsey.
Festival emcee was Monte McComber, Cultural Director for the Royal Hawaiian Center.
NextGen steel guitarist Makamae Luy-Napoleon.
NextGen steel guitarist Isabella Bertelmann with Alan Akaka.
Featured steel guitarist Jess Montgomery from Kauaʻi with Larry Nager on upright bass and Sam Kitsch on guitar.
Featured steel guitarist Mālie Lyman.
Mālieʻs brother, NextGen steel guitarist Enosa Lyman, danced a hula during Mālieʻs performance.
NextGen steel guitarist Hiʻipoi Lindsey.
NextGen steel guitarists Enosa Lyman and Hiʻipoi Lindsey perform a duet.
Enosa Lyman.
Featured steel guitarist Bobby Ingano with Garret Santos on upright bass, Joseph Zayac on guitar, and Kaipo Asing on ʻukulele.
Featured steel guitarist Ed Punua.
Ed Punua with Helene Woodward, Joseph Zayac, Bobby Ingano, Kaipo Asing, and Kaipo Lindsey.
Festivalʻs over, now Isabella amd group head back to Honolulu.
