44th Annual Ukulele Festival - 07/20/2014

There were thunder and lightning on Saturday night and I wasn't sure if I'd go to the Ukulele Festival on Sunday but it was nice and sunny so I trekked down to Kapiolani Park to check out this year's festival.  I was there in the afternoon and it was muggy but very windy.  I'm glad to see that the festival  is getting larger and larger each year but harder to find closer photo spots if you get there later.  This year had some of ukulele's big name performers.

The littlest ukulele performers were the cutest.

Aiden James have been performing all the previous times I've been to the festival.  He's only 12 yrs old but he'll be touring to the Pacific Northwest performing later in the year.

Raiatea Helm can sure hold a note.

Nick Acosta has performed for Roy for many years and this year he won a scholarship to continue his college education.

Every year they feature performers from around the world.  Here's a performer from Australia - Ryo Montgomery.

The hit of the afternoon, Willie K.  He sang everything from Hawaiian to Jazz to Opera.

We checked out the tents with Ukulele display, sales and lessons.

I heard them announce Jake Shimabukuru and rushed back to the stage area.

The crowd had gotten larger by that time.

It was awesome to see so much support for Roy's Ukulele Festival.