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HSGA 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival

We are pleased to announce that we are holding the 2022 Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival in Foster City, California. The festival will be on August 11-13 at the Crowne Plaza Foster City Hotel, 1221 Chess Drive, Foster City, CA 94404. The hotel is less than 10 minutes driving time from the San Francisco International Airport.

Greg Sardinha from Hawaii will be 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.

This is the first time that the Festival is being held in California. The festival format will follow previous festivals, and will include member and guest performances, workshop, annual member meeting, jam sessions and the Saturday night Luau Dinner & Show (priced separately) The festival will begin at 1:00 p.m. on August 11, allowing the morning hours for attendees to arrive and check in.