Ukulele master Herb Ohta has been around long enough to witness his instrument cycle through numerous booms and busts. Known internationally as Ohta-San, the Hawaiian-born virtuoso has carried the uke ...

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 ...

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) - Shawn Yacavone grew up surrounded by the ukulele. At home and at school, in parks and in friends’ houses — it was everywhere. “There’s always some music going on in the ...

» Ma’iki Aiu Lake’s name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story. Walter Kawai’ae’a was 15 years old and had been playing the ukulele for only a few months when he heard his teacher, ...

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 ...

This is an update to a column I wrote last February on the Olympia Ukulele Players Association, also known as OLUPA. The acronym has a Hawaiian word meaning of "rhythmic refreshment." Group leader Kim ...

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 ...