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…
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…
“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…
This duo stopped by the Ukulele magazine booth at NAMM 2016 for this beautifully captured performance
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I receive so many ukuleles and guitars for review that my home office looks like a showroom at Guitar Center (I’m not complaining!). Most of these instruments go unnoticed by my family, but not the freshly made Lichty uke I…
We were thrilled when uke virtuoso Taimane (Gardner) agreed to record a Session at the Ukulele booth at Winter NAMM 2016. But fellow uker Brit Rodriguez, who was just about to start shooting her session, was even more thrilled. “I arrived…
The Anaheim Hilton’s California Ballroom conveyed a glitz that at first seemed removed from the art and craft of making world-class ukuleles. But on January 23, the Friday evening of the five-day NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show, sponsors…
The “seriously playful and playfully serious” duo Ruby & Smith stopped by the Ukulele booth at Winter NAMM 2016 to perform one of their originals “Plant My Apple Tree,” off their latest, A Ukulele Album. Penned by “Ruby” aka Daphne…
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Brit Rodriguez stopped by the Ukulele booth at NAMM 2016 to perform “Keep Me Warm Tonight” on her Godin Multiuke Koa. Learn more about Brit in this feature from the Winter 2015 issue.
By Whitney Phaneuf Jim Beloff and his lovely wife Liz have been evangelizing the uke since 1992, after they purchased one at the Pasadena Rose Bowl Flea Market. The rest, as they say, is history. The Beloff’s company Flea Market…