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 ...

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 ...

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) - 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 ...

Ukelele star Jake Shimabukuro plays the House of Blues Saturday, June 15. (Merri Cyr) Jake Shimabukuro first became widely known when a YouTube video of the ukulele virtuoso strumming George ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — The ukulele ...

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, ...