BY JIM D’VILLE Steve Conrad of the Ukulele AZ club in Mesa, Arizona, likes ukuleles and dogs. So, when he heard about Maricopa Animal Care and Control starting a program to help comfort dogs during the exploding stresses of the…
We wanted to put in a good word for the inimitable and irrepressible uke duo of Craig Chee & Sarah Maisel, who have just released a mellow but spirited new holiday album called Christmas Island. This is their first release…
By Heidi Swedberg (From time to time, ace ukester Heidi Swedberg checks in with reports from her travels. Apologies for the lateness of this one; problems on our end, not hers! —Blair J., Editor, Ukulele) On Friday, Aug. 23, the…
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by Jim D’Ville My high school years encompassed the halcyon days of early to mid-’70s FM rock radio. The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, and my favorite band, Electric Light Orchestra, were cranking out rock radio classics.…
By Laurence Vittes Ben Carr‘s life as a ukulele player began in 2005, the same year he moved from New Orleans to South Vermont and took a trip to Hawaii. Nearly two decades later, this graduate of the James Hill…
What can I say? I was never a Queen fan. First-rate musicians and singers, certainly; fine blokes, no doubt (if we’re to believe the biopic). A few undeniable classic tunes in there. But the overblown drama, the gazillion stacked vocals,…
Inspiring player now teaches uke, too By Greg Cahill “I don’t even know how to describe how I play,” Nick Acosta once told a reporter when asked to describe his technique. Let’s just say a lot of determination has gone…
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It’s a been several years since we posted this clip, which is a real favorite of ours and Ukulele mag readers. Its a smokin’ showcase for the incredible Roy Smeck (1900-1994) from a 1930s film in which he briefly appears.…
