Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association - HSGA

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Live from Wi******er, Indiana's Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival Wi******er, Indiana’s Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival brings together musicians from across generations and cultures. Kyle Long visited the festival and spoke with some of this year’s performers including the Williams Twins, 96-year-old twin sisters who have been singing and playing guitar togeth...

Maile and Lei Bright, granddaughters of Hawaiian music legend Sol K. Bright, will be joining us at our Santa Cruz festival this October to help celebrate his legacy. Will you be there?

Festival Details: hsga.org/2025-festival

Join us in Santa Cruz Oct. 22-24 for the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association (HSGA)’s 2026 festival! We celebrate the music of Sol K. Bright and welcome special guest Alan Akaka! We will be at the Hotel Paradox. https://www.hsga.org/2025-festival

https://www.tmj4.com/asian-american-heritage/the-milwaukee-musician-preserving-the-sound-of-the-hawaiian-lap-steel-guitar

The Milwaukee musician preserving the sound of the Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar The instrument that inspired blues, country, and rock music is slowly fading away. One Milwaukee musician wants to keep the sound of the Hawaiian Lap Steel Guitar alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg03ne17qVg

Pa'au'au Waltz Provided to YouTube by Smithsonian Folkways RecordingsPa'au'au Waltz · Tony KuOriginal Hawaiian Steel Guitar℗ 2004 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings / 1979 Fol...

We are excited to announce that our newly appointed Director Emeritus Alan Akaka will be joining us for our festival in Santa Cruz, CA October 22-24 as a special guest. He will help us feature and celebrate our annual artist Sol K. Bright. Alan has a personal connection to Sol. So he has stories to tell, and music and aloha to share. Join us!

https://www.hsga.org/2025-festival

Our president Christo Ruppenthal was just on Vintage Guitar magazine’s Have Guitar Will Travel Podcast to promote the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. Check it out!😎

In episode 267 “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with guitarist Christo Ruppenthal from the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association. In their conversation Christo tells us about his National Guitar Collection and his involvement with the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association (HSGA) and his love of vintage music.
Christo talks about the events HSGA holds including this year’s event which will be in Santa Cruz, CA on October 22nd through the 25th and he describes the membership which is world wide.
Christo takes us through what’s available on their website, lessons, tutorials and eventually instruments for sale.
Christo talks about his work performing Hawaiian songs from the 20’s and 30’s and he gives us a history lesson of the early players and their instruments he also takes us through his career as a luthier.
Christo gives us his thoughts on the resurgence of the popularity of Hawaiian Steel Guitar, which had help from Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Christo takes us through the common tunings for Hawaiian Steel and his preferred tuning A11.
Finally Christo tells us about his new album “Get Under the Moon”

To find out more about Christo you can go to his website: musicbychristo.com and for information on the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association you can go to their website: hsga.org

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“Jerry Byrd’s father made the wood cutout “JB” motif that covers the speaker grill cloth on this Volu-Tone Model 5 amplifier, built in Los Angeles in the late 1930s. Unlike modern amplifiers, Volu-Tone models required players to charge the strings of their instruments with a small electrical current before playing.” Spotted at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum