Welcome to Steelgrass, a multidisciplinary educational center for agriculture, music and the arts. On the agriculture side, we're a demonstration farm with extensive plantings of bamboo, cacao (the chocolate tree) and vanilla, working to develop Kauai's future as a center for sustainable, diversified agriculture by providing hands-on training, workshops, and educational tours for residents and visitors.

On the music side, we are home to the island's only state-of-the-art music recording studio, and we’ve created a concert and workshop series, Kauai's The Power of Music. Our recording studio is specially equipped for voice-over and spoken word projects: in addition to its top-quality professional digital recording equipment, the recording studio offers acoustically perfect voice-over isolation rooms, as well as the microphones recording professionals prefer for voice-over recording, including the Neumann U-87. Recent spoken word and V/O recording clients have ranged from Ke Kula Ni’ihau O Kekaha, a Hawaiian-language center on Kauai’s West Side, to Britain’s Thames TV, and Hollywood’s Dreamworks, which used the studio to record projects featuring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Jay Baruchel.

As Duke Ellington used to say, we like any kind of music so long as it's good music, and our musical interests are as diverse as can be. Our music recording studio is the only recording studio on Kauai, and one of the few music recording studios in the country, to feature a West Javanese Gamelan set. The Power of Music, our music performance and teaching program, brings musicians of all kinds to Kauai: world music from Turkey, Scotland, Africa, Indonesia, India and the Philippines, singer-songwriters, jazz fusion, early music, rock-'n-roll, roots Reggae, gospel music, and cutting-edge new music performers such as the string quartet Ethel, not to mention local Hawaii talent, including ukulele maestro Jake Shimabukuro. We invite musicians and musical groups to bring your recording project to Kauai's Steelgrass Studio. Set amid an eight-acre bamboo plantation nestled in the lush Kauai hills, our recording studio offers you the best of both worlds: a sophisticated professional music recording facility in a tranquil meditative environment, all on one of the most beautiful places on earth.