Sometimes a little backup comes in handy. A Filipino man named Sherwin Sikat surprised his longtime girlfriend over the weekend with a ukulele flash mob, roses, and an engagement ring. According to a report from News to Go, Richelle Sy was…
The Oregon group the Quiet American are debuting a single from their forthcoming album, “Songs From a Rocking Chair” today at UkuleleMag.com. Like much of the new record, “Worth a Million” features ukulele played by Aaron and Nicole Keim, as well…
The ukulele playing will be smoking, but the money raised will help put out fires. The San Diego Ukulele Festival, which kicks off on Saturday, June 6, has announced that it will donate proceeds to the San Diego Fire Rescue Foundation.…
With a giant red couch, and a 12-foot tall Lanikai ukulele in tow, the “Get of Ya Couch and come to the Cairns Ukulele Festival” is making its way through southwestern Australia to promote the four-stringed instrument and lure people…
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Going viral has its perks. Just ask Rob Scallon, whose ukulele rendition of Slayer’s “War Ensemble” quickly racked up more than a million views on YouTube after being posted on the site two weeks ago. Days after the video took…
For many people, the urge to learn the ukulele hits when spring gives way to summer. That annual trend is not lost on the National Association for Music Education, who are launching a new webinar series to help ukulele beginners…
Kala’s uke line is slimming down for summer. The company has released two new cutaway ukuleles that make an already portable instrument that much more so. In fact, the KASSTU-SMC-C concert size and the KA-SSTU-SMT-C tenor model are each less…
If you don’t already know the singing and strumming sensation known as LP, you will soon. As she prepares to release her latest solo album, Forever For Now (Warner), LP spoke to Ukulele magazine, and credited the four-stringed instrument with…
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Herb Ohta, Jr. has received Ukulele Album of the Year by the Hawai‘i Academy of Recording Arts’ Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, which were presented on Saturday, May 24. Ohta Jr. has been playing ukulele for more than two decades, continuing…
These are boom times for the ukulele. A new survey of retailers conducted by Musical Merchandise Review finds that sales of the ukulele show no signs of cooling off. In fact, 51% of business surveyed said that sales of the…