Calling all musicians, students, teachers, and music lovers! Please join us for the second installment of the Hawaiian Heritage Music Series. Hawaiian steel guitarist Greg Sardinha will guide us through music and stories from his very own backyard for an intimate look into his history and the present day. He will be joined by guitarist Darrell Aquino. Click on the YouTube link below for this very special livestream event!
Greg Sardinha has showcased his Hawaiian steel guitar talent performing locally in Hawaii and abroad. He is the winner of the 2014 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Instrumental Album of the year for his “Stainless” - Steel Guitar Stylings of Greg Sardinha. He has the reputation as the steel guitar player who has the ability to present old Hawaii with a contemporary twist. He’s contributed to numerous recording projects with a variety of Hawaii’s top recording artists and has adapted his styling of the Hawaiian steel guitar to a diverse group of musical styles such as traditional Hawaiian, contemporary Hawaiian, reggae, country rock, and folk. His discography includes work on over a hundred albums as an instrumentalist and/or producer. Not only is Greg contributing to the preservation and perpetuation of 20th-century Hawaiian music as a steel guitar artist, he is also the owner of his own record label. Keala Records, 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.
