They’re British ukers with a cause. Since January, the Hartlepool Ukulele Group has raised just over $3,400 for Hartlepool & District Hospice by playing gigs around the English seaside town. “Anybody who has lost someone they love after being in the hospice,…
Uke history may soon be made in Hampshire, England. It looks like the Hampshire Music Service is poised to break the current world record for the largest group performance on the ukulele. The current mark, as tallied by the Guinness…
The ukulele youth movement will soon have another place to call home. The Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has received a $500 grant from the Southern New Hampshire Ukulele Group (SNHUG) to launch a youth ukulele…
Despite a valiant and jovial effort to break the world record for the largest live ukulele ensemble, the Los Angeles Ukulele Expo came up well short of etching its name in the Guinness Book. An estimated 1,000 ukulele players turned up…
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Blackbird, the San Fransisco-based stringed instrument maker, has picked up the 2014 International Design Excellence Award for its Clara composite ukulele. The Industrial Designers Society of America handed out the award this week, singling out the Clara as a “travel-friendly instrument capable…
By Patrick Sullivan Detroit luthier Gary Zimnicki has an ongoing project of building ukuleles and guitars from the wood reclaimed from the Motor City’s abandoned homes. It stood for a century in the heart of Motor City. Built in 1910, the…
LP, the talented singer/songwriter, and uke enthusiast featured in the Fall issue of Ukulele magazine, has announced she will play a free concert at The Grove shopping mall in Los Angleles in July. The first-ever Martin Guitar ambassador for the…
The lineup of performers and workshop hosts for this year’s Uke and Guitar Summit in North Bethesda, Maryland will include Victoria Vox, James Hill, Stuart Fuchs and Ukulele magazine contributor Marcy Marxer. The uke heavy, five-day event kicks off on…
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By David Knowles Here come the haters. With the ukulele’s incredible rise in popularity over the past decade, it is inevitable that not everyone on the planet would be equally taken with the sudden ubiquity of the four-stringed instrument. Indeed,…
Watch out Los Angeles. Hampshire, England now wants the Guinness World Record for the largest ukulele ensemble. On the heels of the Los Angeles Ukulele Expo announcing its plans to try to break the record on June 28, Hampshire County…