Where the Wild Ukes Are: A Dad Takes His Four-Year-Old Twins Shopping at McCabe’s
What they taught me could be helpful to any parents looking for their children’s next ukulele
Celebrate Meghan Trainor’s Grammy Win: Watch Her Perform ‘Lips Are Movin” on Ukulele
After last night’s 58th annual Grammy Awards everyone’s lips are movin’ about singer-songerwriter (and uker) Meghan Trainor, who took home an award for Best New Artist. “I’m a mess,” she said to the audience during her sincerely humble acceptance speech.…
Happy Valentine’s Day: Watch Elvis Costello Perform ‘The Scarlet Tide’ on Ukulele
There’s something so sweet and sincere about this clip of Elvis Costello performing “The Scarlet Tide” that it seems like a perfect valentine — despite the fact that it’s more of an anti-war song than a love song. Written by…
Tiki Madness: A New Box Set Spans Eight Decades of Hawaiian Music
by Kenny Berkowitz If four discs of hula kitsch sounds like a lot, well, it is. But the good news about the new Hulaland: The Golden Age of Hawaiian Music box set is that it’s not too much, even if…
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#ThrowbackThursday To My First Ukulele
By Greg Olwell For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I wanted to make a personal post about my first ukulele. After playing guitar for many years, I fell in love with vintage Hawaiian music back in the mid-’90s. Soon after I…
Kittens, Cats, Felines and Their Pet Ukuleles: Photos
And now for all of the glorious cat and ukulele photos—safe for those of you who are allergic (what a cruel fate).
Wishing You Were at Mardi Gras? Watch This Ukulele Cover of ‘City of New Orleans’
If I were in New Orleans today for Fat Tuesday, I’d be running the streets with my uke in hand — and a Sazerac and gumbo in my belly! But instead, I’m at the office with a black tea in…
#TBT Watch A Vintage Harp Ukulele
When it comes to lasting beauty and serious mojo, it’s hard to top a vintage harp ukulele. Invented by an innovative, if occasionally questionably skilled, luthier Chris Knutsen, the harp ukulele was a member of his “New Hawaiian Family,” which…
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Watch George Harrison Perform ‘Ain’t She Sweet’ on Ukulele
“Everyone I know who is into the ukulele is ‘crackers,’” writes George Harrison in the below letter (courtesy of openculture.com). George wisely opines, “you can’t play it and not laugh!” So today, in honor of World Play Your Ukulele Day…
Watch Dani Joy and Daniel Elliott Play a Sweet Rendition of ‘Sweet Pea’
This duo stopped by the Ukulele magazine booth at NAMM 2016 for this beautifully captured performance