2019 Aloha Festivals Keiki Ho‘olaule‘a

NextGen steel guitarists and musicians participated in the annual Aloha Festivals Keiki Ho‘olaule‘a at Pearlridge Mall on September 14, 2019, as a part of the Aloha Week festivities.

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• NextGen steel guitarists and musicians at the Aloha Festival. From left: Tai Misailidis, Hōʻailona Mahuka, Mālie Lyman, Joey Misailidis, Kumu Alan Akaka, and Ikaika Orlando.
• NextGen U-bass player Tai Misailidis who is also a steel guitarist.
• NextGen steel guitarist Mālie Lyman.
• NextGen steel guitarist Hōʻailona Mahuka.
• NextGen steel guitarist Joey Misailidis.
• Tai Misailidis.
• Joey Misailidis.
• Keiki at the Keiki Hoʻolauleʻa.
• Tai Misailidis and Hōʻailona Mahuka.
• Mālie Lyman.
• Mālie and Joey caught in the act of singing.
• NextGen ʻukulele player Ikaika Orlando.
• Ikaika Orlando.
• Hōʻailona plays backup ʻukulele.
• Ke Kula Mele ʻohana include Eric Keawe, Cho-Young Choi, grandmother of Tai and Joey, and Shirley and Larry Holu.
• More Ke Kula Mele ʻoihaha include Dailene Todd, SooJean Misailidis, and Young Choi, grandfather of Tai and Joey.
• Some of the hoʻolauleʻa guests included grandparents of the performers.
• Young Choi taking a video of the performance.
• Mālie Lyman hula dancing.
• Kamalia Hopkins, cousin of Mālie Lyman, also performed a hula.
• Kamalia Hopkins.
• Mālie Lyman.
• Upper-level view of the NextGen performance.

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Photos by Don Touchi ©2019 by Don Touchi Photography and Ke Kula Mele Hawai‘i.