The in-demand ukulele festival instructor discusses his original music and his somewhat unusual road to becoming one of the most respected Hawaiian musicians on the mainland
The Hot Club of France didn’t have a ukulele player. But that didn’t stop Park from imagining what it might look like if they did.
The ukulele’s power for human connection is genuinely magnificent at festivals, where it has the uncanny ability to bring like-minded people together
It seemed to be a transitional piece between the old and new way of building, made between 1900 and 1905
As well as taking over as producers of the Reno Ukulele Fest, the duo has opened an online ukulele academy, a retail shop, and started touring the festival circuit as performers and educators
Dr. Giovanni Albini has founded the first university-level study program dedicated to ukulele on an international level
Uke Heads started as an album concept but soon blossomed into a band of 165 players
By the time he was six, Wynne was writing charts for the family band
The list of American celebrities from this era who had their own signature model production ukuleles is considerable
Though Sokolow came to the ukulele relatively late in his musical explorations, around the age of 50, he dove into the instrument with his characteristic curiosity and passion