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Warren Buffett Plays Ukulele and Bill Gates Sings In This Video

  In a light-hearted video posted on Bill Gates’ website, the co-founder and former Microsoft CEO has a little fun with his old friend Warren Buffett at the annual stockholders’ meeting at Buffett’s company. Together, two of the world’s three wealthiest people…

Taimane Rips It Up on the North Shore

By Greg Olwell At a recent fundraiser for a music in schools program on Oahu’s North Shore, Taimane jammed with her band on a fantastic flamenco-tinged groove. Together with Jazzy Jazz on guitar and  Jonathan Heraux on cajon, Taimane shows off some…

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Teenage Aidan James Made Us Want to Put Our Ukuleles Away

By Greg Olwell You may have heard Pachelbel’s Canon in D before, but you’ve probably never heard it the way that 14-year-old phenom Aidan James plays it. In this beautiful and fun clip, James uses his custom Kamaka and a…

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Learn Jake’s Triple-Strum Technique

  By Greg Olwell In this video clip, Jake Shimabukuro demonstrates how to play a triple strum. It’s a fast, flashy strum, which he thoroughly and patiently breaks down into an easy-to-follow three-step motion. Jake originally filmed this lesson for…

Watch Jake Shimabukuro and Chris Kamaka Play “Hi’ilawe”

By Greg Olwell We just can’t resist this outtake from the PBS series Craft in America, which shows ukulele hero Jake Shimaburkuro playing one of the most beautiful songs ever to come from Hawaii, “Hi’ilawe,” with Chris Kamaka and Chris Kamaka Jr.…