By Greg Olwell One of Kala’s exciting debuts for 2017 is a dramatic new finish available on the Elite line’s mahogany tenor. The new Kala Elite Salt & Pepper Doghair Tenor is a tribute to a recent Collings guitar that…
By Greg Olwell Ukulele hotshot, Taimane Gardner recently created an instructional video for her triplet-strumming technique. Now, she’s back with a new tutorial on triple PICKING. She mostly focuses on using a thumbpick (an extra-heavy Herco thumbpick, in this case), but also goes into…
By Greg Olwell What we’re in love with today: A recent cover of a hot-ukulele classic from “King” Bennie Nawahi. In this clip shot for the Japanese Ukulele magazine, Belgium-based ukulele phenom Ukulelezaza and “Masked” Mario Takada play “Ukulele Benny,” one…
By Greg Olwell A version of this article originally appears in the Spring 2017 issue of Ukulele. Several months ago, ukulele star Jake Shimabukuro began posting pictures to his social media accounts of himself with what appeared to be ukuleles in…
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With the Ukulele magazine team about to depart for a holiday break, a few of us are humming “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” around the office. Since we know that hearing a song can be the best…
The Cats and the Fiddle are one of the all-time great vocal harmony groups. Founded in the wake of the success of groups like the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, the Cats and the Fiddle performed as a string…
By Greg Olwell Long before its massive drum beat and sing-along chorus started to show up in ads for Carnival cruise lines and movies like Trainspotting, Iggy Pop’s anthem “Lust for Life” was one of the best-loved results of his ongoing…
By Greg Olwell For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re dialing the time machine back to June 2010 to visit with Hawaiian falsetto legend Richard Ho’opi’i. Filmed for Hawai’i Magazine, filmmaker David Croxford captured Ho’opi’i playing his Kamaka Liliu 6-string tenor in the backyard…
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By Greg Olwell With Arthur Godfrey’s birthday falling on August 31, we want to share this video of Godfrey playing with Doris Day. The two perform the title song from the 1966 comedy The Glass Bottom Boat and cap it off with…
By Greg Olwell In her first instructional video, the prodigiously talented Taimane Gardner breaks down her three-fingered triplet technique. This plucking-hand technique is a cornerstone of classical guitar and a great one to add to your toolbox of ukulele techniques.…