Laura Teske is the founder of the Jefferson City Ukulele Fight Club and shared her story about how her love for the instrument grew from a trip to one of the Hawaiian Islands. For me, the lure of the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Michael Chock has been making ukulele since the 1980s. Each one is unique, special — a piece of art to appreciate and to enjoy. Chock, a board member of the Ukulele Guild of ...

Say Aloha to the ukulele, a mini but mighty musical instrument from Hawaii. Kent Knorr plays the ukulele, which resembles a mini-guitar, and teaches classes at the North Carolina Ukulele Academy in ...

At the age of 7, Fremont resident Evan Tom became interested in the ukulele after watching performers at the Aloha Festival in San Francisco. Today, at 16, Evan has his own ukulele band and recently ...

The Ukulele Guild of Hawai‘i returned to Bishop Museum this weekend with a special exhibition and workshops, highlighting ...

Sparks is not exactly Hawaii, but for four days it will feel like it – if you use your ears. For the seventh year in a row, Sparks will host the largest ukulele festival in the continental states.

HONOLULU (AP) — 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 ...

Sorry, ukulele. Hawaii won't spurn the steel guitar to sound its love for you. Bills in the state Legislature that would've declared the friendly little guitar the ...

Four or five times a year, Mike Upton closes the door in Petaluma, Calif., and flies to China to check an operation that’s making several hundred-thousand Hawaii-inspired ukuleles a year. Originally ...

Most historians will tell you the Hawaiian word ukulele, which can be translated as a bouncing or jumping flea, was first used to describe the nimble fingers of Portuguese musicians in the late 19th ...