Roberto Alaniz,
Festival Team Coordinator
With Hawaiian Steel Guitar Superstars show on Saturday, August 13 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM, featuring: Greg Sardinha, Alan Akaka, Patti Maxine, Mikiya Matsuda and Bobby Black.
Aloha HSGA Members. We had a long in coming 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival in Foster City, California. The festival was August 11-13 at the Crowne Plaza Foster City Hotel, near San Francisco.
Greg Sardinha from Hawaii was our featured artist for this Festival. Hawaii born and raised,Greg is a talented and veteran Hawaiian steel guitar player and a long-time member of HSGA. Greg has won two Na Hoku Hanohano Awards for Instrumental Albums:
2014 – Stainless: Steel Guitar Stylings of Greg Sardinha
2018 – Across the Sea: A Collaboration with Jeff Peterson and Tsun-Hui Hung.
Greg is also a music producer and owns the Keala Records music label, which is dedicated to pioneering Hawaiian steel guitar music into the next generation. He has produced a series of“Hawaiian Steel”instrumental albums, as well as Hawaiian and hapa-haole vocal albums featuring traditional Hawaiian instrumentation including the Hawaiian steel guitar.
Check back, in the near future we will have media from the festival here.
Patti Maxine
Roberto and Jorge Aliniz
Eric Rindal and Pete Petitt
Festival Overview:
This will be the first time that the HSGA festival is held in California. We hope there will be more, stay tuned.
The 2022 HSGA Festival schedule:
Thursday, August 11
10:00 a.m. Registration and Check In opens
1:00 p.m. – President’s Welcome
1:30 p.m. – Christo Ruppenthal
2:00 p.m. – Chris Kennison
2:30 p.m. – Patrick Avera (Ukulele)
3:00 p.m. – Mark Kahalekulu
3:30 p.m. – Eric Rindal
4:00 p.m. – Kani Ka Pila Band with Alan Akaka
4:30 p.m. – Alan Akaka
5:00 p.m. – Dinner break
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Alan Akaka’s Tunings Workshop
8:00 p.m. – Acoustic Jam Session
Friday, August 12
9:00 a.m. – HSGA Annual Member Meeting
10:00 a.m. – John Mumford
10:30 a.m. – Vickie Van Fechtmann
11:00 a.m. – Daryl Brooke
10:30 a.m. – Joe Stewart
12:00 p.m. – LUNCH
1:00 p.m. – Jim Newberry
1:30 p.m. – Tony Fourcroy
2:00 p.m. – Al Nip
2:30 p.m. – Alan Akaka
3:00 p.m. – Garry & Debbie Vanderlinde
3:30 p.m. – Chris Kennison
4:00 p.m. – Hiram Bell
4:30 p.m. – Greg Sardinha
5:00 p.m. – DINNER
7:00 p.m. – Talk Story with Greg Sardinha
8:00 p.m. – Acoustic Jam Session
Saturday, August 13
10:00 a.m. – Tony Fourcroy
10:30 a.m. – Don Woods
11:00 a.m. – Karen & Jerry Wagner
11:30 a.m. – Justin Firmeza
12:00 noon – LUNCH
1:00 p.m. – Roberto & Jorge Alaniz
1:30 p.m. – Ethan Goore
2:00 p.m. – Christo Ruppenthal
2:30 p.m. – Mikiya Matsuda
3:00 p.m. – Patti Maxine
3:30 p.m. – Bobby Black, with Greg & Alan
4:00 p.m. – Alan Akaka
4:30 p.m. – Greg Sardinha
5:00 p.m. – DINNER (if you’re not attending the Luau)
7:00 p.m. – Luau Dinner & Show ($65 per person)