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 ...

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 ...

Jake Shimabukuro: I can remember clearly the first time my mom put the ukulele in my hands. I was 4 years old. She had me sit down on the floor cross-legged, and she handed me the ukulele, and taught ...

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 ...

George Formby, comedian, actor and singer-songwriter, died on March 6, 1961 after suffering a heart attack. He was 56 years old.

Ukuleles, the quirky little guitar-like instrument that originated in Portugal around the 19th century, are quite often looked upon as a toy, kitschy souvenir from trips to the Hawaiian Islands, or ...

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 ...