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Ukulele MagazineGuitarsReggae Roots: Learn the Feel and Techniques on Ukulele BY DANIEL WARD | FROM THE FALL 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Reggae is one of the most influential styles to emerge from Jamaica, and its rhythms can now be heard all over the world.
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsJennie Durkee’s 1918 ‘American Way’ BY VICTOR PRANCHÈRE | FROM THE FALL 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE At the end of the 1910s, when the ukulele craze was spreading all over the United States, many professional musicians were…
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsHow Ukulele Saved the Sheet Music Industry in Radio’s Early Days BY JIM TRANQUADA | FROM THE FALL 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE America’s first commercial radio station, Pittsburgh’s KDKA, went on air November 2, 1920.
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsStrumming Lesson: Chuck and Chunk the Backbeat BY VICTORIA VOX | FROM THE FALL 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Perhaps you’ve heard about chucking or chunking as rhythmic strumming techniques on the ukulele.
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsUke Makers: Pete Howlett Shines his Light of Knowledge to Guide Future Generations BY AARON KEIM | FROM THE FALL 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE A man of skill, hard work, creativity, and faith, Pete Howlett is a foundational part of the ukulele revival of the 21st century.
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsUke Scene: James Hill Visits Madeira, the Ancestral Homeland of the Ukulele BY NICOLAS GRIZZLE | FROM THE FALL 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE James Hill has done a lot of incredible things with the ukulele, but he had never played a Coldplay song with a cellist and three…
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsUkulele Master Daniel Ward Infuses Flamenco Flavor into his Performing, Writing, and Teaching BY E.E. BRADMAN | PHOTOS BY DMITRI VON KLEIN | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE If you play ukulele or read Ukulele , you’re no stranger to Daniel Ward.
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsTackle Some Jazzy Chords with this Ukulele Version of the Gershwin Classic “Someone to Watch Over Me” BY FRED SOKOLOW | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Many popular songs from the 1920s to the 1950s have become jazz standards, often referred to collectively as the “Great American…
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsUkulele Magazine Editor’s Note: Fall 2026 I was lucky enough to see Prince perform at a small nightclub in San Francisco in the mid-2010s. I was close enough to see, throughout the two-and-a-half-hour set, that miraculously, he did not…
Ukulele MagazineGuitarsExplore Worldly Influences on American Pop Culture Through Vintage Ukulele Designs STORY AND PHOTOS BY SANDOR NAGYSZALANCZY | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Anyone who’s spent time admiring American ukuleles from the 1920s and ’30s knows their visual charm often…
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