This is Alan Akaka’s Saturday night set at the 2018 Maui Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival. The Backing Musicians are: Kaipo Asing – Guitar/Vocals Adam Asing – Upright Bass/Vocals The Hula Dancer is Alexis Tolentino For more information visit: htt
From the 2018 Maui Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival – Saturday Morning Workshop Alan goes over A History of Tunings for the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. For more information visit: http://www.mauisteelguitarfestival.com/ http://www.KeKulaMele.com http:
I was so honored to share the stage with: Bobby Ingano also playing Steel, Greg Sardinha on Guitar, and Addison Ching on Bass at the 2018 Maui Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival at the Kaanapali Beach Hotel. Also, with Alexis Tolentino as guest e
Today’s guest is Norwegian based Dobro & Weissenborn player Knut Hem. Among lots of other things , today we talk all about his life as a musician in Norway, how he got started playing Dobro, his recent trip to Greece, and this podcast is also f
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Check out Greg Booth’s Dobro Playing with The Kathy Kallick Band In this Podcast, episode #26 I interview Alaska based Dobro Virtuoso Greg Booth. Greg has a multitude of amazing Dobro videos on YouTube, and was a huge inspiration to me when I w
Today’s guest is Hawaiian Steel Guitar player Mark Prucha. It’s truly astounding how much Mark has accomplished on the steel guitar in such a short amount of time. Having only played the steel guitar for just a few short years, Mark has already
Today’s guest is musician Steve Tylka. In today’s show Steve talks all about his journey (from a Student’s Perspective) into Hawaiian music and the Hawaiian Lap Steel guitar. He also discusses the blog he writes for musicians just getting into
This week I’m happy to have world class Dobro player and one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, Phil Leadbetter on the show. In addition to playing and touring with some of the best acts in Bluegrass Music, Phil has won the IBMA Dobro Playe
This week I’m happy to have UK based Weissenborn Instrumentalist, Aron Radford on. Aron is a passionate enthusiast of the Weissenborn and the artists that play them, and the builders that are making them. He started the site www.TheWeissenbornI
This week I’m happy to have Cincinnati based musician and teacher, Nick Fryer on the Podcast. I found out about Nick through the various Lap Steel Groups on Facebook, and after doing some research I ran across his great Transcriptions of Lap St
In this episode Alan talks all about his Waikiki Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival, the book “Kiki Kila”, he plays his Weissenborn and the featured song Kaula ‘Ili (Kanaka Leo Nui).
In this episode Alan talks all about his recent tour throughout Japan and his Akaka Club. The featured song is “Lovely Hula Hands” written by R. Alex Anderson and arranged by Alan Akaka, performed by Troy Brenningmeyer. If you want to learn thi
Featuring Alan Akaka’s arrangement of the “I’ll Weave A Lei Of Stars For You” – written by R. Alex Anderson & Jack Owens. For Tablature, Jam Track, and Performance Track visit: www.OnlineLessonVideos.com
In this episode my featured guest is the Dobro player, writer, & collector of prewar Dobros – Steve Toth. Steve has several instructional books published by Hal Leonard, and also has one of the most unique and prolific collections of prewar Dob
In this episode I’m featuring a recording of a Hawaiian Steel Guitar Workshop I attended at the Maui Steel Guitar Festival this year. The workshop features 3 of some of the finest Hawaiian Steel Guitarists, Greg Sardinha, Patti Maxine, and Bobb
In this episode of Hawaiian Steel Guitar Talk Story, Alan Akaka talks all about Dennis Kamakahi and I play Alan’s arrangement of Dennis’ song “PUA HONE”.
This week I’m happy to welcome back Alan Akaka for another episode of “Hawaiian Steel Guitar Talk Story”. We are going to kick off this episode with my attempt at playing his arrangement of the song “Henehene Kou Aka”. Alan, discusses David “Fe
This week my guest is the U.K. based Weissenborn player Barney Kenny. Barney takes what is normally a quiet mellow instrument, and puts it right at the forefront of his rock band “The Dustbowl Children”. Adding overdrive, wha-pedal, and other e