A true ukulele rock star, Sione Aleki's showmanship on uke conjures up images of Jimi Hendrix freaking out unsuspecting audiences with similar techniques.... Read More...
For over 50 years Eddie Kamae was at the forefront of the Hawaiian renaissance as a traditional ukulele player, singer, composer, bandleader, producer, and more.... Read More...
Jazz ukulele pioneer Lyle Ritz’s 2 albums for Verve, How About Uke? (1958) and 50th State Jazz (1959), were hugely influential among a generation of Hawaiian ukulele players.... Read More...
From the Spring 2017 issue of Ukulele | BY ADAM PERLMUTTER
The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco is generally regarded as the event... Read More...
From the Summer 2016 issue of Ukulele | BY AUDREY COLEMAN
The opening moments of “Stardust” come in leisurely phrases, as if the musician is pausing to reflect... Read More...
From the Fall 2014 issue of Ukulele | BY MARCY MARXER
A visionary player on the ukulele, guitar, tenor banjo, and lap-steel guitar, the vaudeville performer Roy... Read More...
By Marcy Marxer
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2013 issue.
Many years ago a friend gave me a cassette tape of a bunch of old recordings of 78-rp... Read More...
BY AUDREY COLEMAN
In 1931 she took on the New York Musicians’ Union, threatening legal action if the organization would not include the ukulele in its list of ... Read More...
