The decision to name a state instrument in Hawaii is proving more difficult than some lawmakers expected. At first, it seemed a proposal to give the title to the ukulele it was going to be an easy ...

JS: The ukulele was the instrument I loved playing the most growing up. When I was in intermediate and high school, because I loved music so much, I wanted to join the school band. Unfortunately, you ...

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 all, the humble ...

For more than 20 years Hawai'i's Jake Shimabukuro has used his mastery of ukulele to apply the instrument in new and fresh ...

John Gleeson plays guitar, banjo, clarinet, drums and bass. But his arthritis makes it difficult to handle some of those instruments. The ukulele, though, is a perfect fit. “It’s smaller in size so ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Joe Souza and his wife, Kristen, own Kanile’a Ukulele. The family’s relatives were some of the first Portuguese to immigrate to Hawaii 140 years ago. “What they brought with ...

Two Mondays ago, an episode of How I Met Your Mother ended with the mother breaking off an engagement and somberly strumming a ukulele while crooning “La Vie en Rose.” Arrestingly performed live by ...