The 10th anniversary of the Maui Hawaiian Steel Guitar Festival will be commemorated Friday and Saturday at Ka’anapali Beach Hotel and expanded on April 15 at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center in Kahului.

Produced by Arts Education for Children Group and the Hawai’i Institute for Music Enrichment and Learning Experiences, the festival is presented for public awareness, education and community outreach as well as entertainment.

Festivities at the Ka’anapali Beach Hotel festival include open stage performance sessions from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, two days of hoolaulea pageants with six presentations each night from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., kanikapila jam sessions for the public hosted by master steel guitar players each night at 9:30 p.m., steel guitar workshops on Saturday, cultural activities, and a vintage steel guitar exhibit courtesy of Geri Valdriz.

The April 15 festival at Queen Ka’ahumanu Center will showcase Valdriz’s vintage steel guitar exhibit installed at the Story of Hawai’i Museum, and a hoolaulea pageant featuring 10 steel guitar presentations beginning at 11 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m.

A Maui Steel Guitar Camp on Wednesday precedes the festival on the grounds of Ka’anapali Beach Hotel. Tuition-based, the camp’s goal is for each attendee to play class-assigned Hawaiian songs on the lap steel guitar. Three intensive sessions (two in the morning and one in the afternoon) will be conducted each day by Alan Akaka and Greg Sardinha, two of Hawaii’s steel guitar masters.

Cost is $225 per person. No prior experience is necessary.

A silent auction will be held on Friday and Saturday to help underwrite festival production costs and perpetuate music education in Hawaii. Those who wish to donate certificates and items for the auction can contact AECG President Bryant Neal at 283-3576. Donations are tax-deductible.

The festival is open to the public and admission is free.