Akahi Productions

We hired David with Akahi Productions for my son's graduation party to provide live band sound and DJ services (with sound and lighting). After contacting numerous sound companies around Oahu, David with Akahi had the best pricing and options. He was very responsive and always responded to inquiries in a timely manner.Due to unforeseen circumstances, my original emcee had to cancel a few days prior to the event. I contacted David to ask about hiring an emcee and he offered to provide the emcee services at NO ADDITIONAL cost (Awesome)!On the day of the event, David arrived early with ample time to set up. I experienced technical difficulties when trying to set up my slide show, and David went out of his way to help me get the stressful situation resolved even though it was not his responsibility.The sound equipment he used was perfect for the event and I even received compliments from the bands that David did an excellent job providing sound for them.If you are looking to book a sound man for your next event, consider contacting David at Akahi Productions. You will not be disappointed in his service! Mahalo plenty to David and Akahi Productions! I will definitely be using them again for all my future events.

David Asing was our assigned musician for our wedding ceremony at Turtle Bay. He did not play the right song for the bride to walk down the aisle to. The bride even asked the camera man to tell him to play the correct song but the exit song was played instead. So disappointed!

This was the best entertainment for my party i ever had. David arrived on time and set up fast. My guest were so impressed with his talent. He sang the entire time. It was a great addition to our Christmas party and I will use David again next year

We hired David and Akahi Productions for our wedding at Kualoa Ranch. David played ukulele during our ceremony, provided audio for our ceremony and reception, sang and performed during the cocktail hour, and then DJed and MCed for the rest of the night! He also set us up with three amazing hula dancers and a surprise fire dancer and drummers, which really pleased our guests. We had thought of a doing a luau for our wedding but instead we were able to bring the luau to our guests, mostly because of David! Great value and great performances!

We had a destination wedding on Oahu's North Shore at the Turtle Bay Resort and David played for the ceremony and reception. He is a top notched-professional, very easy to work with and simply made our wedding amazing! I can't say enough great things about his singing and musical abilities. In addition, he is an all around nice guy! We are so grateful that we chose him for such a memorable and special day. I highly recommend David and can say with confidence, you will not be disappointed. If you are looking for a professional and honest musician who will exceed your expectations, your search is over! Thanks, David for adding so much to my daughter's wedding and making it something we will never forget! Mahalo from California!

David is an incredible performer full of Aloha. He was easy to work with from our very first call. He took the time to give me all the information I needed, and offered a competitive price for his services. We hired David for live music at both our ceremony and cocktail hour, and as a DJ for our reception.His voice is so beautiful and incredible! Our guests told us how they loved hearing him perform live. I'll never forget walking down the aisle to White Sandy Beach or departing as Mr. & Mrs. to Over the Rainbow. He also continued to play music during some of our photos and marriage license signing- hearing him perform was a dream! I basically told him we wanted Jack Johnson, Beach Boys & local Hawaiian music for cocktail hour, and he nailed it. My only regret is that we couldn't enjoy his live music for more of our cocktail hour (since we were doing photos).Given the timing of our wedding, and that we were traveling from the east coast, we had a lot of last minute cancellations in our guest list and wedding party, and thus, changes to our intro to reception songs. I was worried about this, but David executed all of the last minute changes well! He kept our guests dancing all night, and he was open to any song requests we thought of through the evening. Lastly, he was very lovely to interact with during our wedding- he definitely brought the aloha vibe. If you want a DJ who can also perform beautiful live music at your wedding then David is your man!

We love David Asing! He and his ukulele provided such a warm, Hawaiian welcome for our wedding guests in September 2021. He is very friendly and talented, and we're so happy we chose him to provide the music for our wedding!

We had our wedding in Waikiki last month and hired David Asing. He was fantastic on the day of, playing and singing beautifully for our ceremony, cocktail hour, and dinner, and he was also an awesome DJ. Our guests really enjoyed having him there, and his prices are very reasonable. He followed everything on the timeline and did a good job setting the right mood for every part of the wedding. We would give David 5 stars for how great he was on the day of the wedding, except that leading up to it, we had a very hard time getting in touch with him and getting responses to questions. It had us nervous about whether he was even going to show up, or if he would know what was going on. Several times he responded to questions with one word answers that didn't seem friendly or professional. With the song that I requested for me to walk down the aisle, we asked him if he could share a little clip of it so that we would know what it would sound like. He said he had to learn it, and even though he had about 10 months to do it, we never received a clip and about 2 months prior to the wedding, he texted asking if we could pick a different song because he didn't have time to learn it. In the end, he did learn it and did a great job with it, but we had no idea what would happen until I was walking down the aisle. It was really difficult to get him on the phone to talk about the timeline even a few weeks prior to the wedding. Honestly, if we didn't have an incredible day-of coordinator who I knew would make sure David did things at the right time and who assured us that he would really deliver on the day of, we would have been panicking because we weren't sure if David cared at all about our wedding. We are super grateful for how wonderfully he played, sang, and performed on the day of our wedding. But we would have appreciated a more timely and professional communication, and a little more effort to plan with us.

David Asing is an incredible musician! We had several songs with specific word changes and starting points for our ceremony. He was flexible and ensured each song and timing matched exactly how we wanted it! He arrived early to the wedding and implemented beautiful transitions between each song. He has an amazing voice, played the guitar beautifully and he created a truly magical ambiance for our ceremony! We would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a live musician!

We hired David for our wedding last year, and we are so happy that we did! We read reviews about communication not being so great, and actually came across a review saying that although he doesn't get back to you, he shows up on the day and does an amazing job. We put all our faith into whoever wrote that review, and they were right.David sent us his song list, and we sent it back with our choices for the ceremony and reception. I had a few requests about the songs for our ceremony: to play a song acoustically for the bridal party, then change the song for my dad and I, and continue that song as the ceremony ended. We weren't sure how it would all turn out, but David was flawless. Our guests had so many compliments for David during the cocktail hour, and he surpassed all of our expectations. (Also got a lot of compliments from the single ladies--he's very handsome!)The thing that set him apart was that when he finished his set (is that even what you'd call it?), my husband had a surprise performance for me. He was going to play our song on his guitar, but realized that the sound wasn't working right. David helped him get set up, and held the mic up for the entire song. His "paid time" was up by then, but he went out of his way to help! That shows more of his character than anything else I could share. He was personable, friendly, professional, and the perfect entertainer for our wedding. If you're considering David for hire, don't get discouraged if you don't hear back right away. Trust that he'll be amazing, and make your event unforgettable.