-- You would be hard-pressed to find a more jovial group of people than the members of the Cleveland Jumping Flea, a ukulele (pronounced OOK-AH-LAY-LAY) club that meets regularly at the Parma-Ridge ...

The biggest Wellington export of recent years has been Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" trilogies, filmed in and around New Zealand's second largest population center. But the recent ...

The ukulele is a dangerous instrument. A little bit of uke, applied by discerning musicians, can be a good thing. Too much of the four-stringed, beach baby guitar, though, can drown a listener so ...

Eddie Vedder hunches silently over his stool, ragged flannel and ragged soul. Alone onstage, he cradles a tiny wooden instrument. Bass Concert Hall holds its breath. We'd sat in neat rows waiting for ...

Jake Shimabukuro has a number of famous fans: Yo-Yo Ma, Queen Elizabeth, and Olivia Harrison, wife of the late Beatle George Harrison. All are openly fond of the ukulele virtuoso, who is coming to the ...

Ukulele music. For some it evokes the touch of soft breezes, the sight of swaying palm trees or lovely hula hands. For others it is Arthur Godfrey on TV in the 1950s, falsetto-voiced Tiny Tim on ...

The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra will perform Friday, Jan. 29, at the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo. Courtesy photo Count New Zealand musician Andy Morley-Hall among the ...

“Put your finger here,” says the mononymous Suzala, as she instructs Arlene Krassner, both with ukuleles at their chests. Suzala is tutoring Krassner in the B-minor seventh, or Bm7 chord, on the ...

Eddie Vedder recently joked to a New York Times reporter that his mission on “Ukulele Songs” was “Can I make this happy little instrument as depressed as I am?” The answer is no. No matter how hard he ...

Jake Shimabukuro is a soft-spoken, particularly polite 31-year-old Hawaiian who turns into Eddie Van Halen when he's holding a ukulele. There isn't a "Ukulele Hero'' video game. Any game that could ...

To stereotype, Rich James looks more electric guitar than ukulele: One of two guitarists in Durham heavy metal titans Tooth, James is tall, with thick legs and long hair, a stiff beard of brown hair ...