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Created by dipity on Dec 18, 2008
Last updated: 09/05/11 at 12:08 AM
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...and jubilant. Perfect for YouTube, it even fits easily within a computer screen, shot close-up. Julia Nunes learned to love the ukulele from her musician parents. She began posting her recordings of popular songs on YouTube long before the instrument caught...
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The Seattle Times
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...and jubilant. Perfect for YouTube, it even fits easily within a computer screen, shot close-up. Julia Nunes learned to love the ukulele from her musician parents. She began posting her recordings of popular songs on YouTube long before the instrument caught...
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The Washington Post
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...The soprano style is the most commonly used design and is considered the standard instrument in Hawaii resembling the original ukulele; which also happens to be the smallest of the four instrument sizes. The musicians in Hawaii refer to the ukulele players’...
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Examiner.com
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...instrument sure to be seen in this Hawaiian music scene is the ukulele. The ukulele originated in Hawaii in the 19th century. Ukuleles come in four types: soprano, concert, tenor and baritone. Also known as the uke, it gained popularity in the United States...
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Daily Titan
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...the day before. But the performance turned out to be so starkly intense it could not remain a joke. So she began taking a ukulele everywhere, and before long she had recorded a full album: Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical...
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All About Jazz
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Learn the PICKING for this song (for FREE!) at UkuleleUnderground.com! ukuleleunderground.com For the real version of this song (and many more from Eric Clapton) please visit his page on iTunes and pick up his music! itunes.apple.com Happy 2011! The full lesson for this song is available at UkuleleUnderground.com so check it out for the chords, finger picking pattern, and picking! Have fun & strum in the New Year! Aloha, -UU Staff www.ukuleleunderground.com
Me singing I'm Yours by Jason Mraz. I went out yesterday and bought a ukulele and thought i would make a video for you guys haha. :) some of the low notes are bad or hard to hear, sorry lol. twitter- www.twitter.com/haleybop5726
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...… we might drink a lot, but there’s no cocaine.” Though The Mighty Uke packs more than you could ever want to know about the ukulele, its 79-minute running time should accommodate even the most attention deficient. Likewise the performances, ranging from traditional...
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Cornell Daily Sun
http://cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2010/09/03/size-doesn%E2%80%99t-matter-mighty-uke
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...thanks in part to former keyboardist of The Cars, Greg Hawkes, who released an album of Beatles tracks, performed on the ukulele, in 2001. “A lot of bands have started using them,” explains Oli. “And we were really influenced by a band called Beirut and also...
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STV
http://entertainment.stv.tv/onstage/192811-the-ukuleles-revival-at-the-edinburgh-fringe/
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...as part of the New Zealand concerts, ukulele players are encouraged to bring their instruments for a play-along song. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain started as a bit of fun in 1985. The first gig, intended as a one-off, was an instant sell out and...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1008/S00097/sensational-ukulele-orchestra-to-tour-nz.htm
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Herb Ohta, Jr., played with Ukulele Source's Smiley Kai, and Rodney from Ukulele Jams.
Japantown’s Ukulele headquarters, Ukulele Source, celebrated its two-year anniversary today with a ukulele party outside the store that lasted through most of the
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San Jose Metblogs
http://sanjose.metblogs.com/2010/07/31/ukulele-party-in-japantown/
This little guy asked to get on stage at a baby luau to play a song. Who knew he could kill it like that? This is how it's done out here where the ukulele was born. michaeltorresphotography.com
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...Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra's heading back out on tour again - just six months after they last hit the road in support of their Dreaming EP. (See what we made of their live performance here - and read a review of their Dreaming EP here). tvnz.co.nz's...
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TVNZ
http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/catching-up-wellington-ukulele-orchestra-3444213
from Amos Lee's 2005 self titled album. Positive and negative comments welcome! Thanks for watching! check out www.ukuleleunderground.com and keep on rockin' in the free world!
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...where they run through some old favorites, from a vault of over 75 songs they've done together over the past year. While the ukulele is best known for its prominence in Hawaiian music and early 20th century staples, Sullivan said the group has brought a wide...
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Nashoba Publishing Online
http://www.nashobapublishing.com/ci_14762748?source=rss_viewed
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...brought the instrument with them when they arrived in the country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A baritone ukulele is the largest design. The popularity was raised thanks to stars of variety performances and vaudeville shows such as the late...
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Buzzle
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/learn-more-about-the-baritone-ukulele.html
With the release of Heart Gold and Soul Silver just a few short months away, I couldn't help but arrange a pokemon medley of my own. I've been a pokemon fanatic since the first red/blue series (Even got to play a little bit of green back in the day) from buying both versions, to EV/IV training, and now to arranging the music for ukulele. It seriously had one of the best vg soundtracks in its day (perhaps even today) Junichi Masuda is definitely one of the best video game music composers. So here's my medley of pokemon songs mostly from the Red/Blue series. Songs in order: Intro Title screen Route 101 Pokemon center Gym Leader battle Evolution Rate/Comment/Favorite/Subscribe! As of 1/27/10 7am HST: #20 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music #39 - Most Viewed (Today) - Music - India #31 - Most Viewed (Today) - Music #47 - Top Favorited (Today) #9 - Top Favorited (Today) - Music #14 - Top Rated (Today) - Music #78 - Top Rated (This Week) - Music Please enjoy! And also check out these links: Ukulele Underground (Learn to play ukulele) www.ukuleleunderground.com Kanilea ukuleles (The ukulele that I'm using in this video) http Twitter (Random micro blogging 20% about ukulele) www.twitter.com
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...with the Rider travel guitars and in some sense the ukulele is the ultimate travel instrument. So as amusing as a composite ukulele may be, we wanted players to have a professional-grade instrument without ever having to worry about it," says Blackbird founder...
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Harmony Central
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...better." For a full interview with the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain see The Guide, on Saturday, free with the Mail. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays Hull Truck, Ferensway, Hull, on Sunday, January 10, at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £21. To book...
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This is Hull and East Riding
http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/stage/ve-plucked-Arabian-ukulele-camels/article-1655600-detail/article.html
Jake Shimabukuro performing a cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" live at Anthology in San Diego - November 19, 2009
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...KaraUke band were performing for us. We even ignored their count-in intro, pelting into the song headfirst and watching 15 ukulele players racing to catch up. Once I had begged (and failed) to be allowed back on stage for a second offering (they are only...
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This Is London
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...Sydney, a fan of the ukulele and occasional guest performer with the band, writes: “A concert by the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra is transporting stuff; the innocent pleasure of music on parade… These five new tracks reveal the growing complexity...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0908/S00454.htm
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...home, you'll find O'Brien and dozens of other players on Wednesdays at Toronto's Dominion Pub, venue for the weekly Corktown Ukulele Jam. The organizers also recently hired a vintage streetcar for a rolling ukulele party. “People were mad when the streetcar...
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Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/ukulele-girl-strumming-her-way-to-helsinki/article1257489/
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - tragically, one of the very few things still Great *about* Britain.
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ever. With rent of just $300, Kai said with a laugh that he only needs to sell one ukulele a month to keep the shop open. "Right from the beginning, we did pretty well," said Kai, who with his wife started playing the ukulele four years ago.
For some
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Inside Bay Area
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i love this song . www.twitter.com/victorQUEST thank you for subscribing :]
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Musical instrument sales are down across the country, yet the 'ukulele's popularity is on the rise with manufacturers and retailers reporting a growing number of orders from online buyers. And in Hawai'i, in-store sales have remained steady despite a
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The Honolulu Advertiser
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...song. At 22, Danielle Willner is one of the youngest people in the room. Willner, who sports a ukulele necklace and has a ukulele tattoo, recently got laid off from her job at a cafe. She says the instrument helped her take her mind off not having a job and...
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NPR
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Kyle Norris
MICHIGAN
(2009-06-01)
We're at the ukulele jam that happens on the fourth Tuesday of every month. It's at Oz's Music in Ann Arbor. About twenty people are packed into a studio and it's cozy. Everyone strums a ukulele. And they're
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Michigan Public Radio
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...in an unusual way. Two artists held a concert during December in Brooklyn, New York, performing songs by The Beatles on the ukulele. They took donations, billing the event, tongue-in-cheek, as a benefit for Buffett. Roberta Wilhelm, executive director of Girls...
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News24
http://www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Celebrities/0,,2-1225-2108_2511808,00.html
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...one of the tributes that pervade the online universe, Jim Beloff, a leading ukulele player, calls King's work in classical ukulele "the finest in the world, and the finest we will ever see in a long time." Tom Walsh, a board member of the Ukulele Hall of Fame...
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The News & Observer
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...400 Hawaiian shirts, more than enough to wear a different one every day of the year. Is it a surprise that Mr. King played the ukulele? And did he play that ukulele. His huge hands and stocky wrists darted and danced up, down, and across the tiny instrument's...
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Boston Globe
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...Tiny Tim. The Journal of the Society for American Music last year called Mr. King "perhaps the world's only truly classical 'ukulele virtuoso.' " Mr. King's death at 55 on April 3 at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla., sent shock waves through the ukulele...
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San Francisco Chronicle
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This song is on my album 'Things People Do' available on iTunes or here: www.myspace.com/danielleatethesandwich
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...CD, which is a live recording, there is a part in the song "Undecided" when the crowd oohs and ahhs because he's playing the ukulele behind his head. Tapia still teaches music - twice a week from his Southern California home. His ukulele students have ranged...
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Fresno Bee
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...complex melodies. Music professors were stunned. "Your first thought is, 'I can't believe he's playing that on the ukulele,' " said David Irwin, Eckerd's band conductor. "And your second thought is, 'That sounds great!' " He played duets with other musicians,...
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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...I used to wear." But for Lekman it turned sour. "It was never part of how I imagined my music and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully. So I gave it away to a kid in Wisconsin."...
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Guardian Unlimited
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...weekend. The ukulele looks like a small, four-stringed guitar. It was brought to Hawaii by the Portuguese in the 19th century. Ukuleles come in four sizes -- soprano, concert, tenor and baritone. Each ukulele's tone and volume vary with its size and construction. An...
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Southern CA Press-Enterprise
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Making fun of myself for bad decisions that I've made is almost as fun as making fun of blind people. This song is on my new CD. myspace.com/danielleatethesandwich
Video from Dent May's debut album "The Good Feeling Music of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele" Directed by Jon Leone / DP - Mark Moore. Shot on location in a double-wide trailer in Taylor, Mississippi www.paw-tracks.com
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...— not as a toy or gimmick. It's a very versatile instrument and can be used acoustic or electrified, just like guitars. The ukulele is having a resurgence, being used by more and more modern bands. We are seeing many younger students coming to (Swallow Hill)...
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Denver Post
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...full. I was on the older side in that audience. Q: Shimabukuro is famous for playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on his ukulele. Can a ukulele play any genre of music? A: People have commented that they never realized so much music could come out of a...
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Denver Post
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No funny business in this one, just a hawk feather headdress. This song is on my CD Things People Do. Buy it here: www.danielleatethesandwich.net or on iTunes, search for Danielle Ate the Sandwich
Good strings are essential for the sound of the ukulele. I want to show how different the same uke can sound with different strings. I admit that I
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The ukulele has caught on in school. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt
While last Christmas was all about the Nintendo Wii, this year's contender for the hottest must-have gift has nothing to do with expensive games consoles, High School Musical or any of
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/dec/23/ukulele-christmas-must-have
This is a song I wrote for the Bushman World Ukulele Video Contest 2008! (Please watch in high quality.) In the annals of history And in much of our ancestry The moustache holds a mystery That's hard to resist for me I'm drawn to the masculinity A symbol there for all to see An optional accessory Of your blatant virility (Chorus) I like a moustache, yes it's true Any kind of moustache will do English, Walrus the Fumanchu If you've got a moustache - I like you I like every variation And every ...
This is my 2nd entry to the Bushman World Ukulele video Contest 2008. I learned this trad. song from Mississippi John Hurt recording.
Sweet instrumment. I don't think is in the standard tune cuz I just pull it out of my garage and tune it by ears. Thank you all. Yeah!!!!Uke wanna-be got Honors. . #9 - Most Discussed (Today) - Canada #1 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music - Canada #29 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music #55 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Music - Canada #33 - Top Favorited (Today) - Canada #1 - Top Favorited (Today) - Music - Canada #15 - Top Rated (Today) - Canada #1 - Top Rated (Today) - Music - Canada #20 - Top ...
Julia Nunes and the YouTube Ukulele Orchestra perform "Maybe I Will" on YouTube Live '08. UkeTube Orchestra: Wade Johnston, Tsud123, chronosxd, Seeso
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...to New Zealand, added: "We can play to 1,000 or 2,000-seat venues and our gigs nearly always sell out. "Lots of schools have ukulele ensembles now. If you tried that with some instruments, it would be very expensive, but you can pick up a ukulele for 12 quid." At...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3405236/The-great-ukulele-revival.html
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