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 ...

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 inside ...

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 what ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

HONOLULU (Island News) – The upcoming International Ukulele Festival of Hawaii is expected to bring a variety of exciting festivities for the public to take part in. Happening on Saturday, July 27, at ...

This is a special new year for Oahu’s Kamaka family, as they celebrate a century of making ukuleles, the string instrument so closely linked to Hawaii. Sam Kamaka founded the company in his Honolulu ...

HONOLULU, HAWAII–The Ukulele Foundation of Hawaii is thrilled to announce the 12th edition of the “International Ukulele Contest” for 2024! This contest is open to anyone aged 3 and above, ...

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 ...

Passengers on their way to Hawaii from Long Beach, California, on Friday, Sept. 16, were surprised with an in-flight ukulele lesson and jam session. Those aboard the flight — a six-hour trip on ...

Above all, the humble ukulele - dubbed "the underdog of all instruments" by virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro who busted out his rendition of the aforementioned Queen classic in a recent performance - sounds ...

The ukulele, the small, four-stringed instrument traditionally associated with Hawaii, will be the star of two musical festivals in Honolulu this summer. Ingram, who died on Jan. 29 in Los Angeles, ...