Ukulele Festival Hawaii 2011 - Herb Ohta, Jr. "Europa"

41st Annual Ukulele Festival in Waikiki on July 17, 2011 features special guests Herb Ohta, Jr. and Jon Yamasato. As a teacher, composer, recording artist, entertainer, and producer, Herb Ohta, Jr. is a vanguard in this new generation of 'ukulele players. Herb Ohta, Jr. shares the beauty of Hawai'i's music andculture through the 'ukulele to people all over the world. Organized by Roy Sakuma in 1971, the annual Ukulele Festival at Kapiolani Park Bandstand in Waikiki has grown internationally and is by far the largest ukulele festival of its kind in the world, with crowds of thousands, guest artists from around the world and an ukulele orchestra of hundreds of children. Roy Sakuma is Hawaii's foremost ukulele teacher and proponent of the ukulele.