"Aloha, everyone!" is Cynthia Lin's cheerful greeting to start her ukulele instructional videos which have compiled millions of views on YouTube. It is like a dear friend's individual welcoming. Her ...

Dave Egan is a Ukulele instructor for UC Santa Cruz's OPERS class series as well as the nationally attended West Coast Ukulele Retreat at Asilomar and Hawaii. His unique approach to adapting jazz ...

Lyle Ritz, the revered bassist for “The Wrecking Crew” and pioneering jazz ukulele player, who made a huge impact on musicians in Hawaii, has died at 87. He died peacefully after a long illness under ...

Lyle Ritz has logged over 5,000 sessions on the bass as a studio musician. But for his latest project, he wanted to figure out a way to make music on a computer. So Ritz bought an Apple laptop and a ...

Strum a ukulele, and almost everyone thinks immediately of Hawaii. But the world is starting to hear a very different sound from the traditional island instrument. For decades, Roy Sakuma has been one ...

With its small size and four strings, the ukulele is sometimes seen as the lesser and lightweight member of the guitar family. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues professional Hawaiian ...