Ukulele Hero The Ukulele Hero t-shirt was very well received last time I mentioned it and from what I’ve seen they’re the biggest sellers. There are also plenty of other Hero style T-shirts including Banjo Hero, Cowbell Hero and Kazoo Hero. UPDATE: These t-shirts are currently unavailable. They’ve gone away and come back before, so […]

Buke has made a very welcome return to the net under the new guise of Tab-U-Learn. There are a bunch of exercises, tips and tabs, divided by difficulty, for baritone and low-G uke. Jeff West, who regularly points me in the direction of uke stuff and contributed the Lars Larrson series to the blog, has […]

(I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate (Chords) The version of Sister Kate by occasional ukulelists The Ditty Bops might be the most famous and Bob Brozman’s version the most musically adept, but the ukulele version by, Blue Stone Folk School alumni, Pholly is certainly my favourite. However, I’ve gone with my own […]

My ebook site, How to Play Ukulele site has been in desperate need of a makeover for a while now. And it’s finally got one. As well as the new look, there’s now a shopping cart and you can leave comments, reviews or questions. If you’ve read any of my ebooks, I’d really appreciate you […]

Wow, Mirah’s new album The Old Days Feeling is incredible. Very sparse and low-fi, but the songs are fantastic. It’s a compilation album of various rarities and these albums are usually for completest fans only. While there are a few tracks on the album that don’t make much of an impression, most of the tracks […]

Jenny Jenkins – Birdwatchers (MP3) Jenny Jenkins – Chance (MP3) Jenny Jenkins – River (MP3) via Bicycle Records The fact Jenny Jenkins shares her name with an old folk song makes it difficult to find out much about her or find any videos. I tried a Google search for ‘Jenny Jenkins ukulele’ and the first […]

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Shaft After complaining that the Isaac Hayes obituaries kept going on about Shaft, I’m going to be a complete hypocrite. It’s the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s version of Shaft in this video that I worked out the tab from (Director: “They’re playing Shaft. Quick, get me a shot […]

In this week’s videos: James Hill breaks out some hip hop beats and a pair a chopsticks, Byron Yasui, Lyle Ritz, Ledward Kaapana, Bob Brozman, Joel Eckhaus and Jim Beloff play together, while Craig Robertson and Phredd participate in Take Your Daughter to YouTube Day.

I caused a bit of a run on the Mahalo Les Paul copies when I mentioned them last week. eBay are now all sold out. You can listen to krabbers on his here. Obviously, I couldn’t resist. Mine arrived this morning and I’m very happy with it. It has some of the failings you’d expect […]

Gosh, it’s been quite a week for Uke Hunt. Probably one of my favourite blogging weeks ever. To stop this post being too self obsessed, I’ll keep it brief. This week I’ve: been mentioned in the New York Times, been asked if I want to work on a real life ukulele book by a real […]