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Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom Trains Over 1,500 Teachers Each Year on Engaging Students with Ukulele

Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom trains 1,500 teachers per year to engage students by integrating academics with singing, strumming & songwriting.... Read More...

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Behind the Scenes of Craig & Sarah’s Not-So-Mini Uke Fests

We started reading about uke club members devastated that all their planning and work for these events were for naught. So, we thought, why don't we do an online festival?... Read More...

For Five Decades Roy and Kathy Sakuma Have Championed Hawaiian Ukulele

Roy and Kathy Sakuma have dedicated themselves to promoting the ukulele. Roy is the most successful and influential ukulele teacher ever— nurturing thousands.... Read More...

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How the Love of Ukulele is Helping People Get Through the Pandemic

FROM THE SPRING 2021 ISSUE OF UKULELEWith the pandemic raging on and club and festival gatherings still on hold just about everywhere, we all need to find ... Read More...

Kimo Hussey Takes the Spirit of ‘Kanikapila’ Wherever he Goes

BY BLAIR JACKSON | FROM THE SPRING 2021 ISSUE OF UKULELEEverybody loves Kimo. Five minutes into an hour-long phone interview, Honolulu-based uke master Kim... Read More...

MusiCares Launches Wellness in Music Survey

At a time when concert venues are shuttered, COVID-19 has been especially challenging, both mentally and financially, for guitarists who rely on performing for... Read More...

New Mexico’s Pimentel & Sons Guitarmakers Branch Out with Custom Ukuleles

BY JIM D'VILLE | FROM THE FALL 2020 ISSUE OF UKULELEIn 1951, Lorenzo Pimentel, a native of “old” Mexico, opened a guitar shop in New Mexico. Over 70 years ... Read More...

‘Anyone Can Play The Ukulele’: How J. Chalmers Doane Promoted Ukulele as Canada’s Primary Musical Education Tool

BY JIM D’VILLE | FROM THE FALL 2020 ISSUE OF UKULELEUsing the fish-to-pond ratio as a measure of notoriety, outside of the ukulele universe, the name J... Read More...

Dino Muradian and his Amazing Ukulele Pyrography

BY BLAIR JACKSON | FROM THE FALL 2020 ISSUE OF UKULELEYou are to be forgiven if you looked at the word “pyrography” in the title of this article and had no... Read More...

Andrew Molina goes from Hendrix to Satie on his Latest Record, EVOLV3

BY BLAIR JACKSON / From the Fall 2020 issue of UkuleleMaui uke phenom Andrew Molina is the first to admit that what he wants to convey on his albums is var... Read More...