-- You would be hard-pressed to find a more jovial group of people than the members of the Cleveland Jumping Flea, a ukulele (pronounced OOK-AH-LAY-LAY) club that meets regularly at the Parma-Ridge ...
Think the ukulele is just a cheap, plastic toy to be played under a palm tree? One listen to Jake Shimabukuro and you’ll change your mind. The Hawaiian-born ukulele virtuoso strums and plucks a ...
Salisbury, England (CBS News) -- When you hear the word "ukelele", you probably think Hawaii or Tiny Tim. Well, England has a whole orchestra of them. It's not quite like any orchestra you may have ...
Bill Bonin picked up the ukulele at age 14, and hasn’t put it down since. Today he’s 76, and his passion for playing the instrument, which is a member of the guitar family, hasn’t waned. In fact, he ...
BYU's Ukulele Club is using ukuleles to take a unique spin on favorite hymns with help from ukulele composer Randy Rubio. With only four strings and simple chords, the ukulele is one of the easiest ...
Eddie Vedder hunches silently over his stool, ragged flannel and ragged soul. Alone onstage, he cradles a tiny wooden instrument. Bass Concert Hall holds its breath. We'd sat in neat rows waiting for ...
DORTMUND, Germany — At 5:30 p.m. backstage at a concert hall here a few weeks ago, a security guard delivers a small brown bag from a chocolate shop in Paris. Devouring the contents is not a folk-rock ...
His publicists call him a "ukulele wizard," and honestly, that's probably the way to describe Jake Shimabukuro. The Hawaiian burst on the scene six years ago, thanks to an anonymous YouTube post, and ...
The biggest Wellington export of recent years has been Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" trilogies, filmed in and around New Zealand's second largest population center. But the recent ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — We’re just a few days away from the first serve of Hawaii’s premier pickleball tournament in the Hawaii Pacific Health ESPN Honolulu Open. Fun-filled weekend coming with Hawaii’s ...
The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra will perform Friday, Jan. 29, at the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo. Courtesy photo Count New Zealand musician Andy Morley-Hall among the ...