BY HEIDI SWEDBERG | PHOTOS BY ALLISON SCHALLERT FROM THE SPRING 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE “Being in this group really helps me deal with life in general,” says Steve Musnicky, a member of HUG, or Heroes Ukulele Group. “For me it’s a great…
The Harold Teen comic strip ran from 1919 to 1959 and is considered a cultural icon of the Jazz Age
Raiatea Helm burst onto the Hawaiian music scene at the age of 16. Barely 2 years later, her debut album, Far Away Heaven, earned critical accolades and thrilled Hawaiian audiences.
GEAR GURU BY MAMIE MINCH | FROM THE SPRING 2018 ISSUE OF UKULELE Q: I have been playing ukulele for about a year. I’m a melody/chord player, and play a tenor with a low G. I practice almost every day, and…
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Compiled by Audrey Coleman Submission Information Listings are free for ukulele events. Deadlines for the next four issues are: May 1, 2018 (Fall 2018 issue) August 1, 2018 (Winter 2018) October 1, 2018 (Spring 2019) February 1, 2019 (Summer 2019)…
The good folks at Ohana Ukuleles had their both at Winter NAMM in Anaheim stuffed with new goodies! In the accompanying video, Ohana CEO Louis Wu offers detailed descriptions (including tuning) on a wide variety of new models, including a…
This classic American folk song has been sung by everyone from Lead Belly to Nirvana
Jeremy from Ortega Guitars shows off what the company has new for 2018 at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California. The new Dawn concert has a satin finished laminated okoume body and comes in at $99, with a cutaway electric…
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Joe Souza who founded Kanile`a Ukuleles with his wife Kristen in 1998, shows off two of the Hawaiian company’s new models. The big news is the company’s (and Joe and Kristen Souza’s) 20th anniversary and they’re celebrating it with a…
At Winter NAMM 2018 in Anaheim, KoAloha showed a prototype of their new D6 guitarlele, which is made in Thailand from acacia (with a sapele fretboard), and also demo’d models in their semi-custom Red Label series (just 40 concerts and…