One unusual instrument is uniting students to the tune of a whimsical island sound. The ASU Ukulele Club combines musical practice, inclusiveness and community service to create an environment for all ...
At age 12, Joe Stewart began playing the ukulele, but abandoned his first musical instrument in favor of the guitar. Then, a few years ago, he heard the late Hawaiian ukulele musician Israel “Bruddah ...
Jason Arimoto grew up in Hawaii where the ukulele is an inseparable part of the island culture. “Instead of learning the recorder or the flute, everybody learns how to play the ukulele” Jason ...
Every other Sunday at the Monroe County Public Library, the constant plucking of ukuleles can be heard from one of the conference rooms. Ellen Campbell and Raina Wong are the Bloomington Ukulele Club ...
ROARING FORK VALLEY, Colorado – Fifteen-year-old Juliette Moffroid peeled the gift wrap off of the rectangular cardboard box, and emitted a small shriek. “A ukulele!” yelped this Colorado Rocky ...
Taimane Gardner comes home to Honolulu for the Thanksgiving holiday and gets to play a Blue Note gig there, but not before a ...
As students in Newington headed back to class, they heard the familiar sound of a ukulele. Charles Robison is a former teacher who plays the ukulele. He comes back year after year. “I brought it the ...
Thomas Ruggles has no plans to end his ritual of spreading cheer. — -- An 89-year-old Massachusetts man is continuing his own Christmas tradition of spreading holiday cheer by playing his ukulele ...