41st Annual Ukulele Festival in Waikiki on July 17, 2011 features Singto Numchok from Thailand accompanied by 700 piece ukulele band of children and adults. Organized by Roy Sakuma in 1971, the annual Ukulele Festival at Kapiolani Park 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.