2nd Annual Hawaii Island Steel Guitar Festival at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows

The 2nd Annual Hawai'i Island Steel Guitar Festival will be held on Friday through Sunday, September 7th through 9th, 2018, at the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows on the Kohala Coast of the Island of Hawai'i. This festival will feature steel guitar performances by Hawai'i steel guitar masters, workshops, jam sessions where festival guests play along with the steel guitar masters, and Open Stage sessions where amateur and professional Hawaiian Steel Guitarists will present their own program to festival guests.

The festival is presented free to the public by the Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows and the Hawaii Institute for Music Enrichment and Learning Experiences (HIMELE) in association with the Ke Kula Mele Hawai'i School of Hawaiian Music, with grants and support from corporate partners, and private donors. This program is also supported in part by the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaii and by the National Endowment for the Arts.