Perhaps you have just recently come to realize that it is a pity your old ukulele is collecting dust in your attic so you decided to pick it up and start strumming its strings, which is probably what ...
Its frisky four strings are the sound of Elvis’s “Blue Hawaii,” of Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips and lately, beyond all reason, of a popular “Bohemian Rhapsody” cover. Above all, the humble ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaiian culture has a rich oral tradition. But as State Archivist Adam Jansen notes, the Hawaii State Archives is largely a collection of written documents — government and ...
SILVER LAKE, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Ukulele Orchestra of the Western Hemisphere performed at the historic El Cid restaurant in Silver Lake Thursday. The members range in age from 15 to 65, and if ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — The International Ukulele Festival of Hawaii brought together music lovers statewide on Sunday, July 20, to unveil the newest inductee to the Ukulele Hall of Fame. Officials ...
Growing up in Hawaii, Marion Cox had no idea she lived in a special place. “It was home. It was just where I grew up,” she recounted before meeting Wednesday with the group of ukulele players she has ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Contrary to popular belief, the ukulele did not originate in Hawaii. You can actually trace the origins of the iconic string instrument to the Portuguese island archipelago ...
How a little Hawaiian instrument is infiltrating pop culture, reshaping the digital landscape -- and changing the world, one smile at a time It looks like a guitar that someone accidentally washed at ...
He got his start with a ukulele cover of a pop hit. — -- Teenager Aidan James already knows what he wants to do for the rest of his life: be a singer/songwriter. The Hawaii native, 14, got a very ...
Maui-born musician Anthony Pfluke, who plays a mix of Hawaiian, contemporary and reggae-influenced songs, pays homage to the sacred places of his home island in his next album project, “Singing to the ...
The ukulele, the small, four-stringed instrument traditionally associated with Hawaii, will be the star of two musical festivals in Honolulu this summer. Ingram, who died on Jan. 29 in Los Angeles, ...