BY JIM D’VILLE | FROM THE WINTER 2016 ISSUE OF UKULELE What happens when you give a certain little four-year-old girl a classical guitar and make her practice every day? In this case, you get Del Rey, one of the…
By Jim D’Ville Imagine six days of music immersion in the beautiful environs of a Pacific Northwest pine forest surrounded by like-minded musicians. That’s the idea behind one of the most prestigious music camps in America, the Puget Sound Guitar…
By Jim D’Ville In the shadow of the majestic Cascade Range of central Oregon lies the epicenter of the Pacific Northwest ukulele world: Bend, Oregon, home of the Bend Ukulele Group. And once a year over 300 ukulele enthusiasts travel…
From the Fall 2016 issue of Ukulele magazine | Complied by AUDREY COLEMAN *pictured above (clockwise): Walt Keale, Ukuleles at Sea’s Zodiac, Hawaiian Uke Retreat, Fulare Pad, Fred & Lynn Sokolow, Tunes in the Dunes, and the Utah Ukulele Festival Camp…
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By David Templeton “Part of the magical power of the ukulele is that it doesn’t really matter where you are when you play it,” says Craig Chee, who performs and teaches uke around the world. “When you get a group…