The ukulele – thanks to it’s naturally comedy – has cropped up a fair few times on The Simpsons Principle Skinner, Krusty the Clown, Martin and Moe have all been seen strumming the ukulele on one occasion or another. Last week, Zack Kim post this eye-popping version of The Simpsons theme. I’m assuming that, unlike […]
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The best of the week’s ukulele videos after the cut
I’ve finally got round to uploading a couple of videos to YouTube. I’d resisted previously due to my embarrassement at the hideous facial gurning I do when playing. But there were a couple tunes that required more than an mp3 to get the full effect. I had to demonstrate the KoAloha Pink Crystal Colored Ukulele […]
Check out the best ukulele YouTube vids I’ve come across this week after the cut.
This week there have been some worthy additions to stuff I’ve already mention with more videos from the Belgium UkeFest and Taimane at her family reunion. But this week has been notable for two strangely compelling performances. f3rt – 4:33 A note perfect rendition of John Cage’s defining work. The tune reaches a dizzying crescendo […]
It’s rare you seen charm in comedians anymore. Usually, they’re either spraying vomit and mocking mental disability or inflicting genital torture. Jack Pepper was a man with charm. So much charm that he managed to marry Ginger Rodgers (he was her first husband of five) despite having a face like grinning frying pan. Of course, […]
A bumper crop of YouTube videos this week. It was tough narrowing it down. Wilfried Welti – Elspeth of Nottingham Welti plays with a restraint and clarity that’s rarely seen on the uke – suiting the classical pieces perfectly. You can download some of his tabs and mp3s here Jake Shimabukuro – Orange World This […]
My favourite ukulele videos uploaded to YouTube in the past week. Taimane Gardner Taimane recently turned in a suitably barnstorming performance at the memorial concert for Don Ho; with whom she had been playing since the age of 14. Here, at a family reunion, she is markedly more restrained and relaxed than she is in […]
A quick round up of my favourite ukulele videos uploaded to YouTube recently (in no particular order). Mark ‘JazzUkes’ Occhionero – A Blossom Fell A version of a song best known, to me at least, in a version by Nat King Cole. The chords for which you can find here. Brian Hefferan – Foggy Mountain […]
