Kate Micucci is playing her ukulele on Scrubs – which is my new favourite ukulele news ever. She discusses her role as Ted’s ukulele sweetheart, Stephanie, here. Until you get a chance to watch it, you’ll have to content yourself Kate and Ted duetting on Screw You a PG version of Fuck You. Tiki King […]

Reports and videos of new ukuleles are filtering in from the big NAMM. Cali Rose has a report here. Fretboard Journal talks about the Collings Guitars’ new uke and you can see it played here. Here’s a picture of a $7,000 ukulele. And here Derick Sebastian checks out the Fender ukulele. If you’re anywhere near […]

We’re back in business. I hope everyone had a good Xmas/New Year. Lots to catch up on. Mike Hatter (aka hoosierhiver) has started a new ukulele company: Mainland Ukes. Julie from Ukulele Review took a visit to the shop. After the ukuleles for libraries stories, Unshelved did a week long comic strip series on ukes […]

Thanks to everyone who has bought How to Play Ukuleles for Peace already (six days left to get the ebook at the cheaper price). And an ever bigger thanks to everyone who promoted it including Valerie who made a video for Project 4 Awesome promoting UfP. I’m going to keep going on about this until […]

Gary at Ukulelia has put together a list of Christmas ukulele tabs and chords online and alerts us to the Fiesta Flea. UkeToob interviews Merrill ‘tUnE-YaRdS’ Garbus. Death Cab for Cutie to release ukulele song. MP3 blogs: Muruch has eagleowl’s Sleeptide, Foggy Ruins of Time has the very big spider.

The next How to Play Ukulele ebook should be released next week. It’s a little different from my usual releases as I’m not the only person involved. It’s a kind of Live-Aid-for-Ukulele-Tabbers with all proceeds from the ebook going directly to Ukuleles for Peace. It contains tabs by Dominator, James Hill (yes, THE James Hill), […]

Christmas is coming and time to dust off a few party tricks, so here’s a list of all last years’ Christmas ukulele tabs and chords. More to come this year. Christmas Ukulele Tabs Jingle Bells Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer Mele Kalikimaka White Christmas And there’s also my How to Play Christmas Ukulele ebook with […]

You can get a sneak peak of Amy Crehore’s next show Dream Girls and Ukes on her Flickr and find out more here. “”The ukulele is already a magical instrument, but there’s something about his playing and being that is other-worldly.” Yo-Yo Ma discusses working with Jake Shimabukuro. Roger Greenawalt will spend 12 hours performing […]

The Duke of Uke website looks like it’s finally up and running. As well as the shop, there’s a bit of a blog thing going which is suitably Smeck heavy. If anyone’s looking for a birthday/xmas present for me, I’ll have one of these. Julia Nunes will be appearing on the first ever YouTube Live […]

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain have got two new CDs coming out this month: Live in London #1 and Christmas with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. You can listen to extracts and pre-order them on their website. The Jumping Flea Market is open for business and I’ve already bought myself some uke goodies. […]