Just in time for his “Holidays In Hawaii” Tour show at the MACC on Saturday, ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro has released ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Contrary to popular belief, the ukulele did not originate in Hawaii. You can actually trace the origins of the iconic string instrument to the Portuguese island archipelago ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ukulele takes center stage Feb. 9 and 10 at the Ukulele Picnic Weekend in Honolulu. There will be music competitions, a benefit concert and (of course) a picnic. The activities kick off Saturday ...

HONOLULU — The first and largest ukulele festival in the world is celebrating its 44th year. Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro will be one of the featured artists at this weekend’s Ukulele Festival ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (KITV4)-- Ukulele Project Hawaii is collecting Ukulele's for keiki on Hawaii who lost them in the fires. Keiki from Lahaina have expressed their feeling about losing their ukuleles.

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 ...