February 28, 2020 – February 29, 2020:
Kauai Steel Guitar Festival (5th Annual). The 5th Annual Kauai Steel Guitar Festival will be held on Friday and Saturday, February 28-29, 2020, at the Sheraton Kauai Coconut Beach Resort. This festival will be presented in the days preceding the annual Aloha Music Camp as an extension of the Hawaiian Steel Guitar experience that is offered at the camp. In addition to steel guitar performances by Hawaii steel guitar masters, the festival will include workshops, kanikapila jam sessions where festival guests play along with the steel guitar masters, and Open Stage sessions where amateur Hawaiian Steel Guitarists present their own programs to festival guests. A kanikapila jam session to kick off the festival will be held on Thursday evening, February 27, 2020, between 6PM and 9PM, at a site to be determined. Festival musicians and NextGen steel guitarists and members of the Ke Kula Mele Hawaii ensemble will be joined by guest performers for a fun evening. Information about this event will be posted when it becomes available. The festival is presented free to the public by Hawaii Institute for Music Enrichment and Learning Experiences (HIMELE) in association with the Ke Kula Mele Hawaii School of Hawaiian Music. Partial funding provided by Hawai’i Tourism through the Kukulu Ola Program.