"Aloha, everyone!" is Cynthia Lin's cheerful greeting to start her ukulele instructional videos which have compiled millions of views on YouTube. It is like a dear friend's individual welcoming. Her ...

One of the longest operating jazz venues in the neighborhood just south of Los Angeles, and Orange County's premier supper club, The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano continues to bring in some of ...

Lyle Ritz has logged over 5,000 sessions on the bass as a studio musician. But for his latest project, he wanted to figure out a way to make music on a computer. So Ritz bought an Apple laptop and a ...

Years ago, an interviewer asked ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro whether there was any song he couldn’t play. “If you can hum it, you can play it on the ukulele,“ Shimabukuro said. The interviewer ...

With its small size and four strings, the ukulele is sometimes seen as the lesser and lightweight member of the guitar family. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues professional Hawaiian ...

Lyle Ritz, the revered bassist for “The Wrecking Crew” and pioneering jazz ukulele player, who made a huge impact on musicians in Hawaii, has died at 87. He died peacefully after a long illness under ...

Strum a ukulele, and almost everyone thinks immediately of Hawaii. But the world is starting to hear a very different sound from the traditional island instrument. For decades, Roy Sakuma has been one ...

Fans have four chances to see ukulele sensation Jake Shimabukuro at the Rochester jazz fest. Shimabukuro wowed audiences at the 2008 jazz festival. Shimabukuro is best known for his take on While My ...

Bill Tapia, a jazz guitarist who was in his 90s when he returned to the ukulele he had played as a young man and helped revive the iconic instrument of his native Hawaii, died Dec. 2 at his home in ...

The honor went to Benny Chong and Byron Yasui during an induction ceremony at the International Ukulele Festival of Hawaii.

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