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When Marcy Marxer was a child, she found a ukulele in a trash can. Her partner Cathy Fink received a Gibson ukulele as a gift from an elderly friend who urged her to play it. The passion both women developed for the instrument, aka "uke," continued into adulthood. They have visited Hawaii, where ukulele music first came to the New World via Portuguese View more

Folk singer-songwriter Greg Greenway was born in a hospital right beside Jefferson Davis Highway in Richmond, Virginia. The former capital of the Confederacy also has statues on Monument Avenue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury. "I grew up and was raised in that world and that View more

When Will Grove-White heard about a band of misfits that played Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Parker and Stravinsky on ukuleles, he had to see the show. “They were just brilliant, I had to keep going back,” he said. After three years as an enthusiastic fan, the then 16-year-old ukulele-playing schoolboy was invited to join The Ukulele Orchestra of Great View more

Ukulele enthusiasts will be humming—and very likely strumming—along with some world-renowned “uke” musicians gathering on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at Strathmore’s annual UkeFest. The free event celebrates the growing popularity of a simple wooden instrument that just about anyone can play, and a few can play sublimely. “The ukulele is a fabulous View more

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