HSGA Joliet, Illinois Convention October 2-4, 2003

Convention Performers

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From Honolulu, Hawaii, Hale Akaka, Joliet 2003 Guest of Honor

Hale Akaka

Michigan's Art & Mae Lang

Derrick Mau of Honolulu. Julie Waters - uke, L.T. Zinn - guitar

Art Ruymar on steel. (l-r) HSGA President Kamaka Tom, HSGA Board Member Julie Waters, Lorene Ruymar

Californian Bernie Endaya

Bill Turner of Australia

HSGA perennials Bob & Julie Waters

The Coral Islanders. (l-r) Bernice Honold, Virginia Grzadzinski, Dick Honold

Hoosier Sharon Denney on steel. Sharon also plays pedal steel

Honolulian Derrick Mau and Jule Waters in the rhythm section

Dick Honold

HSGA board member Gerald Ross

Californian Dick Lloyd

Bernie Endaya, bass. Hawaiian music historian, collector and musician Dirk Vogel on steel.

Doug Smith from Southern Ohio

Don Keene

Don Keene

Canada's Art Ruymar

Ian Ufton

Don Woods of Grand Rapids, Michigan on steel. (l-r) Virginia Grzadzinski, Vern Cornwall, Frank Della-Penna, L.T. Zinn, Duke Ching

Don Woods

Doug Smith phoning home during his set. You don't dip into your minutes at nights or on the weekends.

Doug Smith roping during "Hawaiian Cowboy". Greg Wong approves

Doug Smith, Dobro

The one, the only Duke Ching. The word "shy" is not in Duke's vocabulary

Hale Akaka

Hawaii's by way of California, Duke Ching

HSGA Joliet house band member Floyd Alexander

Tricone summit (l-r) Washington D.C.'s Frank Della-Penna, Michigan's Gerald Ross, Minnesotian Dirk Vogel

Frank Della-Penna & Dirk Vogel

Gerald Ross & Julie Waters

Gerald Ross on his Bakelite Rickenbacker

Hale Seabury Akaka

Floridian Captain Ivan Reddington, steel. Gerald Ross, guitar

Hawaiian Steel master of harmonics Herb Hanawahine

Torontonian Ian Ufton. HSGA Joliet house band member

HSGA Treasurer Isaac Akuna, steel. Gerald Ross, guitar

Bernice Honold from SE Michigan

Bernice Honold steel, Virginia Grzadzinski bass

John Plas

New Jersey's Bob Garth playing "by ear"

Ivan Ginter

Evelyn Brue Roeder

Alvin Wood

 

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