HSGA QUARTERLY Published Four Times a Year in Honolulu, Hawai‘I by the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association
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HSGA QUARTERLY Published four times a year in Honolulu, Hawai‘i by the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association Volume 34, Issue 133 Winter 2018-19 Inside this Issue… “HSGA Newsletter Goes 3 Electronic” by John Limbach Weekly Steel Guitar 3 Hotspots in the Islands Fort Collins Guest Artist, 4 John Ely “Waikīkī Steel Guitar Week 6 Preview” by Dan Tremblay “Unloved in its Homeland?” Wowing the Fort Collins audience last year, China Dance Hula Studio dancers Li Linfei 7 by John Marsden (left) and Qi YingLi with Joseph Zayak, Jeff Au Hoy (right) and Bobby Ingano (unpictured). “Ka Ōiwi Nani” steel 8 ar rangement by M. Prucha Gearing Up For Fort Collins 2019 “HSGA Japan Convention By Tony Fourcroy ing our membership rolls and corre- 10 Report” by M. Suzuki spondence. He is also a phenomenal Aloha everyone. Plans are coming musician as well as an amazing teacher. 12 Hawaiian Steel Guitar together for the Thirty-Third Annual Check out his website (www.hawai- Events Calendar Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival in Fort iansteel.com), which is full of great “WCC Steel Guitar Lessons Collins, Colorado. The festival will be information related to steel guitar, and 12 a Success!” by Dan Tremblay held on September 19-21 at the Fort be sure to read his bio on page 4 for Collins Hilton Hotel. If you haven’t details about his career in music. “Polynesian Meatballs been to Fort Collins or attended our 13 Recipe” by Steph. Ortoleva festival in a while, this would be a Festival Overview 13 “A Techno-Tale From Kona great year to come. We’re still working out the details for Beach” by John Limbach the festival, but for the most part it Closing Notes – George Featured Guest should be similar to last year. We will 14 Lake, Roger Shackelton This year’s guest artist is our own John have playing sessions every day from Ely. For those of you that don’t know, around 9 AM to 4 PM, Talk Story on 14 “My Wonderful Years In John has been instrumental in keeping Thursday evening with our featured Music” by George Lake the HSGA running for many years. He guest, our World Famous HSGA Lūʻau is our HSGA newsletter editor and does dinner and floorshow on Saturday eve- a ton of work behind the scenes manag- Continued on Page 2 HSGA QUARTERLY FORT COLLINS Continued from Page 1 before September 2 because after that Volume 34, Issue 133 they release rooms to the public. ning, and you can plan on our famous You can register for the festival and late-night “no sleep” jam sessions. lūʻau online via the Brown Paper Tick If you plan on playing a set, let me ets website (hsga2019.bpt.me). There know either through the registration is also a registration form in your news- OFFICERS process or via email (tony.fourcroy@ letter that you can fill out and send to Frank Della-Penna (DC), President gmail.com). We always love to have me, preferably before September 1. Of John Limbach (MT), Vice-President first-time players on our stage. If this is course, you can always register at the Tony Fourcroy (CO), Secretary-Treasurer your first time, let me know and we’ll door. We’ll have space at the lūʻau for DIRECTORS Jack Aldrich, Seattle help you get everything set up includ- 80 people and it sold out last year, so Margie Mays, Arizona ing finding backup players. you’ll want to register early if possible. Bob Moore, Colorado Last year we changed to having the Note that the lūʻau dinner and floor- Mike Wittmer, Fort Collins workshops right after lunch on the show is not included with your festival FORMER DIRECTOR EMERITUS Jerry Byrd main stage. Everyone I talked to said pass—it’s a separate charge. Fees for JAPAN COORDINATOR that it worked out well, so we’ll plan the festival are: [TBA] on doing the same thing this year. • Member 3-day pass: $60 QUARTERLY EDITOR We’ll be scheduling those later on this • Member 1-day pass: $20 John Ely <[email protected]> summer and we’ll post the details on • Lūʻau Dinner/Show: $50 WEBMASTER our website and Facebook pages. You Mike Wittmer <[email protected]> can count on an advanced steel guitar Volunteering SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR John Mumford workshop with John Ely. As always, we can use a few volunteers to help us out. We need a few people to ORIGINAL CLUB FOUNDER Lorene Ruymar (1985) Hotel and Festival Registration man the registration table and we’d like STATEMENT OF PURPOSE If you’re coming out this year, you’ll to do a better job with videos. Today’s The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association is a need to get a hotel room and register smart phones and tablets are pretty tax-exempt, nonprofit educational corpora- tion in the State of Hawai‘i under Section for the festival and lūʻau. Room rates at amazing with the audio and video qual- 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our the Hilton are $138 and you can book ity. We’d like to ask folks to take video primary purpose is to develop a global net- your room online at tinyurl.com/ of a few performances and submit them work of players and lovers of traditional Hawaiian music and to encourage the study, hsga2019-hilton, or you can call the for posting. If you have skills or desire teaching, and performance of the Hawaiian hotel directly at (970) 482-2626. We for editing and posting the videos we steel guitar. Our primary financial goal is to provide scholarship assistance through have a block of rooms reserved so can certainly use your help. donations to steel guitar students who dem- make sure you mention that you’re We look forward to seeing all of onstrate the ability and intent to become with HSGA—our guest code is ‘AHG’. you in Fort Collins in September. accomplished performers. Make sure you book your reservation Aloha, and have a great summer! n MEMBERSHIP Membership is open to all steel guitar play- ers and non-players around the world who Steel guitarist Masakatsu Suzuki performing at the Fourth Biennial HSGA Japan support the perpetuation of the Hawaiian Convention last fall with the group Mahana Lua. (See page 10 for the whole story.) steel guitar. Annual dues are US$30. The membership year begins July 1. Members receive the HSGA Quarterly and other group benefits. The Quarterly is mailed four times a year First Class to addresses in the United States and by Air Mail to foreign addresses. Members can obtain an Associate Member- ship for a spouse or family member at a cost of $10, added to the annual dues; an Associ- ate Member is entitled to discounts at certain HSGA functions and can vote in HSGA Board elections. SUBMIT ARTICLES & COMMENTS TO: HSGA Quarterly, 3442 Greystone Ct, Fort Collins, CO 80525 USA. Our e-mail address is [email protected]. Submitted items should also be e-mailed directly to the editor at [email protected]. Letters to the president can be sent to: Frank Della-Penna, P.O. Box 18323, Washington, DC 20036. 2 Weekly Steel Guitar Hotspots Bobby Ingano Trio—Bobby performs every Monday with Kaipo and Adam Asing at Dots Restaurant’s “Nostalgia Night,” 69 PM. Dots is on O‘ahu’s North shore at 130 Mango Street, Wahiawa, Hawai‘i 96786- 1926. Bobby also appears every Tuesday, 69 PM at the La Mariana Tiki Bar and Restaurant located near Sand Island opposite the Honolulu airport. Alan Akaka and the Bee Sisters perform every Friday at Duke’s Waikīkī, 7:009:30 PM. We’re glad there’s still steel guitar at Duke’s! Isaac “Doc” Akuna performs every Wednesday along A cool shot of Joey Winchester (left), steeler Isaac Akuna, Ku‘uipo with Ku‘uipo Kumukahi at a free weekly show in the Kumukahi and Kimo Stone. Catch ‘em Wednesdays at the Hyatt! Atrium of the Hyatt Regency Waikīkī on Kalākaua Avenue, 5:307:00 PM. Newsletter Goes “Electronic” Jess Montgomery plays steel guitar Thursday evenings, By HSGA Vice-President John Limbach 6:00-9:00 PM in the lounge of the Hukilau Lanai Restaurant in Kapa‘a, Kauaʻi. He performs with slack We’ve talked about it for years and now it is going to key specialist Dennis Chun. The restaurant offers a full happen for the upcoming membership year, which starts on menu in the lounge and the food is excellent. July 1, 2019. We have long sought to reduce our most expensive item, Every other Friday evening there is a public concert at the our newsletter postage costs, while at the same time accom- Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center stage, 6:007:30 PM, modating the needs of our membership. How will it work? on the lawn stage area next to Kalākaua Ave. Contact the Starting with the Summer 2019 issue—the first newsletter of Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center for the schedule. the upcoming membership year—you will have two options: • You can choose to receive an electronic version of the Please Contact Us! Quarterly via our website for the same membership dues Send news or comments to: HSGA Quarterly, 3442 Greystone of $30 per year. OR, Ct, Fort Collins, CO 80525. Email us at [email protected]. • You can opt to continue receiving hard copy through the mail for $35 per year. The additional $5 will help cover Former HSGA Board member Ivan Reddington playing his frypan printing and mailing costs.