As I continue paring down our collection of links pages, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s time for us to let go of the one for the ukulele. I still love the ukulele and still use some of our links pages, but that page hasn’t been updated since June 2012. So here are the links from it that are still live as of today:
Ukulele Acts
The Bobby McGees on myspace
Bosko and Honey‘s Home Page
Herman Vandecauter’s Fine Art Ukulele, his Ukulele News, his Twitter, and his YouTube channel.
Howlin’ Hobbit Dot Com
I am Jem Cooke– well, I’m not, but she is
Ken Middleton’s homepage and his Youtube channel.
Langley Ukulele Ensemble, music teacher Peter Luongo shows that early adolescence can be a productive time if you are Canadian and someone gives you a uke
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, their website. See also their collective myspace page, their Twitter feed, and their YouTube Channel. And Hester Goodman’s YouTube channel,) Will Grove-White on myspace (he’s also on Twitter,) and Dave Suich (as Joe Bazouki of San Bazoukistan and the Missing Puddings.) And another site for Will Grove-White. And UOGB Fans, their chief fansite. And any number of videos posted on YouTube, especially by their friend Lizard on Uke.
Victoria Vox, on myspace, Facebook, youtube, Twitter, tumblr, and her homepage.
Ukelele Blogs
The Backward Ukulele Player, a.k.a. Reyalp Eleluku
JazzUkes, “A Big Band on Four Strings,” by Mark Occhionero
Play Ukulele by Ear, “Website of Instructor Jim d’Ville”
Uke Attitude, very clever material, mostly en francais
Uke Crazy Bitches, some talented players
Uke, Ubu, Uke!, Marcus Anderson’s uke blog
Uke Republic, “news, reviews, and events” from Atlanta, Georgia’s foremost ukulele dealership
Ukulele Hunt, the premier ukulele site of the moment, maintained by Al Wood. Al’s Tumblelog is called “UkeHunt cont.“; he maintains UkeToob; he tweets; he has a YouTube channel; and he still has a myspace page and some Delicious links. In addition, he has a general interest blog here.
Ukulele Secrets, by Tim Keough, aka UkuleleTim
Ukelele Clubs and Discussion Boards
Ukulele Clubs Around the World
Ukulele Cosmos, discussion boards for ukers
Ukulele Lessons and Tools for Ukers
Dominator’s Ukulele Tabs, certainly dominates other tab sites
North Carolina Ukulele Academy’s Online Ukulele Tuner– if you’re a one-finger uker, it’s as good as an instrument
Online Ukulele Tuner– a simpler tool than the North Carolina one
Top 50 Ukulele Sites– a very eccentric selection, but it includes some good items
Ukulele Daily, tabs, chords, etc
Ukulele Lessons from Pineapple Pete’s Uke School
How to make a humidifier for your ukulele
Ukulele Review– reviews of instruments, accessories, and other stuff ukers buy
Classical Tabs for the Ukulele, which will appeal to the ambitious
Ukulele Tabs, a user-generated compilation
Ukulele Videos and Regular Shows
Corktown Ukulele Jam, Toronto’s finest
The New York Ukulele Cabaret, not excessively talent-centric
Ukulele and Languages, videos of people singing in various languages, accompanied by the ukulele.
Two YouTube videos:
Lovebug, by Anna van Riel
I Will Never Love You More, by SoKo