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Ukulele Events, Winter 2017-2018, Spend December-March with Uke Festivals, Cruises, Lil Rev, Daniel Ho, and More

COMPILED BY AUDREY COLEMAN UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN CONCERTS December 2017–March 2018 Wouldn’t it be loverly to usher in the jolly holiday season by enjoying a performance of this all-singing, all-strumming ensemble, with its repertoire that ranges from the…

The Dazzling Eye Candy of the Collings Ukulele Wall

The ukes seen here are part of an 88-piece collection now displayed in the factory

Listen to a Track from Cynthia Lin’s New Christmas Album

Cynthia Lin, the host and star of one of the top ukulele channels on YouTube, releases her first Christmas album this week. Cozy Christmas will be available on vinyl, CD, and digital download, on November 17, with pre-orders now available…

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Daphne Roubini Built Ruby’s Ukes Ukulele School to Nourish the Music Inside of Everyone

The self-described jazz-singing London girl moved to western Canada and, in just over a decade, started what may be the largest ukulele school in the world outside of Hawaii

Grace VanderWaal Inks Endorsement Deal with Fender

Grace VanderWaal captured the imagination of seemingly every audience member the moment when the ‘tween walked onstage with a ukulele to sing a song for her audition on America’s Got Talent. Now, the 13-year-old singer-songwriter, and winner of the popular…

Led Kaapana Ukulele player in a Stetson hat and sunglasses

‘You Can Do Anything on the Ukulele’ Lessons from Living Legend Led Kaapana

Best known as a master slack-key guitarist, Kaapana always plays the ukulele in performances. He contends that the two instruments can do the same things.

Gods of Uke: Frank Ferera, an Early Star of Hawaiian Music

Frank Ferera was the first to record solo ukulele

Ukulele Archaeology

By Greg Olwell One of the best things that happens with working on a magazine about ukuleles are the family stories that keep popping up. Several times now, it’s happened that I’m visiting a friend and suddenly an old family ukulele is remembered. Sometimes…

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Learn to Play the Tremolo Technique on Ukulele

Tremolo, as played on nylon-stringed instruments like the ukulele, is a technique of single-string repetitions that is usually combined with a thumb arpeggio outlining the harmony.

Tunes In The Dunes 2017 Wrap-up

By Jim D’Ville // Photos by Duncan Berry There are tunes you sing for breakfast, And tunes that you sing after noon. But the best tunes of all, are the tunes that you sing, The tunes that you sing in…