Jake Shimabukuro has performed at TED and impressed Bill Gates (who plays the uke himself after taking lessons from Warren Buffett). Thanks to Ken and Krabbers, the ukulele festivals list has a few new entries. Herman Vandecauter demonstrates ukulele resgueado. Shelley Rickey is putting together an exhibition of painted ukuleles. It’s yet to seen whether […]

April Smith – Colors (Chords) There are a lot of ukuleles cropping up in adverts at the moment. This one from April Smith was used in an ad for Trojan condoms. Which changes the meaning of the song into something along the lines of, “Don’t worry honey. While you’re gone, I promise to use a […]

UPDATE: Ukulele Festivals 2013 There are more ukulele festivals then ever this year so I thought it’d be useful to have them all listed in one place. I’ll be updating this page, so if you’ve got something that needs adding to the list send me a message or leave a comment. United Kingdom and Ireland […]

Bread of Heaven (Tab) You might be wondering what happened to all the big plans I wrote about in the 1000th post. Yes, I talked a big game and, yes, so far I’ve delivered nothing. But a few things have been happening. Firstly, the new theme is on its way. It’s scheduled to go live […]

This is the second time I’ve interviewed Amber Nash. My excuse – if I need an excuse beyond her being bot-rockingly awesome – is that last time she was part of ukebucket and this time she’s half of Shiny and the Spoon. Shiny and the Spoon have just released their new EP. You’ll be familiar […]

Big and Small Theme (Melody, Chords and Accompaniment) As I generally go to great lengths to avoid any contact with people under the age of 21, it took comments from zym, cardboardfrog and Nick to alert me to the ukulele theme tune to Big and Small. Even better, Nick mentioned the ukulele-trio version on the […]

My favourite video this week comes from, Amanda Palmer’s conjoined twin side project, Evelyn Evelyn with a glorious animated video (which is NSFW if you work someone that frowns upon cartoon copulation and foul language – and if you do, what the hell are you doing working there?). Even if you haven’t been impressed with […]

There are a few Valentines ukulele cards around, but if you really love your uker you get them a Kanilea valentines ukulele. The sitar-lele from NAMM is now available to pre-order from Mid-East ukuleles. At $200, I’m going to be very tempted. A couple of sweet looking Ayers/Uluru ukuleles: AU2 and the AU9 Kimo Jones […]

The vote for video of the year is very close between U900 and Ukulelezo (one vote between them as I write) with Sophie Madeleine and Mr B not far behind. Go and cast your vote if you haven’t done so. This year’s ukulele festivals are stacking up: – Ukelear Meltdown (in Newcastle, UK) always has […]

Phredd – Elmer’s Electric Tricycle (Chords and Tab) I wish we had songs this good when I was a kid. All we had was Fingerbobs (okay, so Bagpuss was pretty amazing). I can certainly relate to the story of a mad scientist working away in the shed with everyone wondering what’s he building in there? […]