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The International Ukulele Festival of Hawaii is set to celebrate its 15th anniversary this Saturday, July 27th, 2024, at Kapiʻolani Park in Waikiki. This annual all-day ʻukulele event, founded… ...
The couple watched yesterday as a veteran ukulele couple, Gordon and Debi Velasco of Laurel, part of the group Hoaloha, showed onlookers strumming techniques and led them in Hawaiian songs.
Before long I was strumming tunes on a ukulele, learning how to speak Hawaiian (and how to pronounce humuhumunukunukuapua'a, Hawaii's official fish) and sporadically chronicling my Hawaiian ...
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 ...
The sweet sounds of singing and strumming have returned to Windward Oahu. This group, made mostly of kupuna, can be found every Monday morning in Kailua.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the bustling business district of Kaimuki, the sounds of keiki strumming their ukulele fill the halls of a concrete building that houses a tiny music studio. Walk ...
Since 1971, the Sakumas estimate about 50,000 students ― from kids to kupuna ― have passed through their schools and they’ve worked with some of the biggest names in Hawaii music.
Chris Kamaka leans back in his chair, strumming an old tenor ukulele, an instrument that his family business, Kamaka Hawaii, has been building for 100 years. He’s been challenged to play a sad ...
You could call it a hootenanny, à la the 1960s, or a Hawaiian-style kanikapila. Or, more simply, a whole lotta ukeing going on. It’s a Thursday evening in Montpelier, and 19 ukulele players are ...