For earthquake-rattled Napa Valley, the Wine Country Ukulele Festival should provide some welcome relief. The festival, which is held in St. Helena, California, comes less than two weeks after a 6.0 earthquake caused and estimated $1 billion in damages to the fabled…
Few people have mastered the art of YouTube social networking better than Dodie Clark. Here she is with her version of Taylor Swift’s new hit “Shake it Off.”
Do you live and breathe the aloha spirit? If so, and you’re not already in Hawaii, the next best place to be on September 7 might just be Seattle, Washington. The seventh annual Live Aloha Hawaii Cultural Festival will…
Tinseltown has a thing for ukuleles and the hula. The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, California, will host a one-night celebration of our favorite four-stringed instrument on Wednesday, September 27. Titled KoAloha Ukulele: From Hawaii to Hollywood – Mele in…
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Watching Robin Tricker’s “Life’s a Beach” makes us wish summer would never end.
Every so often we head over to E-Bay to have a gander at the priciest ukulele for sale on the site. This week, it’s a Mirabella concert uke, with a rather eye-popping asking price of $15,000. Made by New York luthier…
A highlight of Paul McCartney’s current world tour is a ukulele tribute delivered to former Beatles bandmate George Harrison. “These days everyone is well into the ukulele,” McCartney told the adoring audience at his July 6 show in Albany, New York.…
We’ll drink to this. The British ukulele band the Everly Pregnant Brothers will assume control of The Shakespeare at Heeley, a long neglected pub south of Sheffield. “The idea was sparked over a pint after we’d come out of rehearsals,”…
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“Epic.” –Ukulele Senior Editor, Greg Olwell