If there was a certain whimsical, musical feeling to Mount Airy recently, that may well have been because nearly four dozen ukulele players were in town, playing, learning, and having ...
Ishta Nupa Paynter is dreaming of the day he can get back to travelling around Bermuda with his ukulele. In 2017 he was ranked Number 3 in a competition of players from around the world. Before the ...
Tom Petty was on the receiving end of many a late-night ukulele jam session with George Harrison. He reserved those sessions for his closest friends. He fell in love with the instrument’s sound and ...
The gentle strumming of the ukulele – a guitar-like instrument often associated with Hawaii's beaches – has become an ...
Thomas Ruggles has no plans to end his ritual of spreading cheer. — -- An 89-year-old Massachusetts man is continuing his own Christmas tradition of spreading holiday cheer by playing his ukulele ...
In a 2019 interview with Rolling Stone, Caine said he was close with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Caine said, “I knew all the Beatles, all the Rolling Stones. I knew everybody in the music ...
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — One ukulele is all you need to cheer the heart and lift spirits. Now multiply that by ten, and you have the Jubilee Jammers, a group of ten dedicated ukulele musicians making happy ...
SEEKONK, MASS. (WJAR) — A 75-year-old man from Seekonk is spreading holiday cheer with the power of music. William Robert Whiteley Junior, also known as “Ukulele Bill,” considers himself a “street ...
Mary Hill started a ukulele club in Fayetteville after her husband encouraged her to try the instrument. The club has grown to more than 30 members and performs at community events around Fayetteville ...
What started out as a program for seniors to learn how to play the ukulele, has grown to include beginner and intermediate ...
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1 at UCSB Campbell Hall. Four decades (and 400 million plucks) since its founding, the Ukulele Orchestra of ...