A highly-entertaining and informative episode of Abe’s Ukulele Show with Christopher Davis-Shannon. And Ukulele is the New Black catches up with Uke Hunt favourites Jim Boggia and Molly Lewis on the JoCo Cruise. Amelia Clark (maker of this Uke Hunt inspired Christmas card) has released a ukulele girl birthday card. On Video – Bud Sugar […]

Brad at Live ‘Ukulele has an incredibly thorough discussion of how to pronounce ‘ukulele taking in Hawaiian history, overpopulation and punctuation. The live action remake of Dumbo has some uke action on the soundtrack. 3D printed wooden ukulele. On Video – Sol Hoopii in Down To Their Last Yacht (1934). – Building a solid body […]

A History of Gotoh tuners (thanks to @HermanVDC). Following on from my list of most used ukulele chords in my posts, Uke Stuff have their graph of chord frequency. New Releases – Craig Robertson’s Stage and Circus Songs. A fantastic collection of songs from the last 16 years about various forms of entertainers including the […]

Legendary guitar string maker, Ernie Ball have started making ukulele strings. Check out Got a Ukulele’s opinion and Southern Ukulele Store’s comparison. HChicago Museum’s history of the Harmony company (via @hermanvdc). Lupita Nyong’o has been learning ukulele in order to play a zombie teacher. Window Shopping – Outdoor Banjolele Carbon Nickel Clear. – 1930’s Martin […]

If you’ve been following along, you’ll know I’m a big fan of Paul Hemmings’ Duke Ellington covers. Now you can pick up the Duke On Uke tab book of his arrangements. I stumbled across a Cliff ‘Ukulele Ike’ Edwards track I was unfamiliar with on The Internet Archive with some fantastic ukeing and his trademark […]

A ukulele victory at the Grammys with Lucy Kalantari and the Jazz Cats picking up the award for Best Children’s Album. George Formby fan hid £19,000 ukuleles from wife. New Music – This years Ukulele Spotify playlist is up and running with Lisa Hannigan, Beirut, Brit Rodriguez and… – Crispy Jones’s new song Pet Sematary. […]

Masterful Hawaiian slack key guitarist Cyril Pahinui has died. In his time at the forefront of Hawaiian music he played with ukulele greats like IZ and Peter Moon. Hawaiian uke duo, Honoka and Azita have split. Azita is pursuing her medical career and Honoka is going solo. Learning – Choan Galvez has just launched a […]

On Video – A couple of years ago I mentioned that Southampton Ukulele Jam were Kickstarting a documentary about the group. You can now watch it for free on Vimeo. – Martin Ukulele Crooner 1929. Window Shopping – Pelem Cocolele. – 1950s Harmony baritone. And while you’re on Jake’s site check out this 1912 Knutsen […]

It’s award season and time to hand out the most coveted of them all The UkeHunties. Ukulele Record of 2018: Zoë Bestel – Transience In this post a year ago I mentioned the three albums I was most anticipating this year were from Arctic Monkeys, Kanye West and Zoe Bestel. As it happens, only one […]

New Releases – Festival Of The Spoken Nerd have a new show out You Can’t Polish A Nerd. Containing the usual spoddy fun and ukulele songs from Helen Arney including an updated version of Tom Lehrer’s Elements. Plus it’s available on floppy disk. – 12 Days of Christmas campanella tab ebook. – New EP from […]