A series of video tutorials on strumming in French – but you’ll get the idea (thanks to Jeff for the heads up). Midnight Ukulele Disco has come up with another winner this week with a session from Hailey Wojcik. John Harris continues The Guardian’s championing of the ukulele. Apparently, Morrissey was a big fan of […]
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This week, The Guardian ran a story about the ukulele viciously murdering the recorder in schools. It’s run similar stories before but, for some reason, this one took hold and was picked up by BBC TV and radio, The Telegraph and even made it’s way across the Atlantic to the hipsters at Idolator. Kudos goes […]
The Duke of Uke has set up a webstore. Either it’s still in the developmental stages or you can pick up a uke for £1. New Craig Robertson CD That Dress released. Two new ukulele blogs: Monsieur Berger’s Ukulele Blog has beginner’s video lessons and Jeff’s Ukulele Ramblings has video as artist bios. R Kelly’s […]
Revolution is in the air again in Boston. Not content with the seditious act of adding tea to water, Viva La Revo-UKE-tion will be kicking off on Monday with the fantastically named The East Boston Make-Out Club Band, the equally fantastic but more boringly named Michael Wagner, Ed White and Ian Schwartz. All you non-Massachusettsians […]
Dominator tabs Going To California (not the Jake Shimabukuro version). KDUS pointed in the direction of this video of Calexico on the ukulele. Also there is a video of Jeremy Warmsley crooning his way around Brussels. PJ Harvey pictured with cigar-box ukulele in The Guardian. If you couldn’t make it to SF for the Evolution […]
In case you missed the link earlier in the week, Buke is a new website dedicated to the baritone ukulele with many tabs divided into elementary, intermediate and advanced. Stefans Ukulele is a Swedish uke site (written in Swedish and English) has some handy hints and tips, chordcharts and a very interesting article about taking […]
It’s been a great couple of weeks for those of us who can’t get enough of the latest comedy ukulele sensation Jen Kwok and her sidekick Uke-icorn. She recorded a show on Midnight Ukulele Disco (check out the full show for the song Desert to the Sea, it’s incredible) and there’s a new edition of […]
A new site full of classic songs tabbed for the uke. Ukulele Hot has uke feeds galore include the blog aggregator I set up, videos and photos. Uke player comes third in the beard and moustache championships (there’s not one word in that sentence that doesn’t please me immensely). The giant uke of Liverpool made […]
The blog of Durham Ukulele Club has chords and mp3s for some classic tunes. A Noob and his Uke: The ukulele world seen through the eyes of a newbie. Lars Larsson’s themed guide to the best uke videos on YouTube. (The forum was having some decidedly NSFW spam problems earlier in the week so tread […]
I’ve started bookmarking ukulele related sites I come across on Uke Hunt’s Tumblr. Mainly for my own reference but there will be plenty of uke related stuff there if you’re interested. Ukulele warm up exercises on DoctorTrey. Colorado Ukulele Festival February 9th 2008. 10 steps to ukulele madness from the Ukulele Allstars. Banjo-lele blog in […]