DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - Parsons School’s ukulele club began after winter break in January, and already three of the kids have gone out to buy a ukulele of their own because they like it so much. And ...

"A ukuele is so simple and so joyous, you can't not love it," Bergman tells PEOPLE Corey Bergman’s son, Jared, was 20 years old, a college student who dabbled in drums and keyboard and was a fan of ...

A cacophony of plunking. That was the first impression that hit me as I stepped into the rehearsal room at Clubhouse 1 on a recent Friday afternoon. A circle of chairs and music stands were set up ...

Music comes in every size. At Pellegrino Music Center, it comes in children's sizes, too. On Saturdays, some of the smallest musicians take the spotlight as they learn to read music, play music and ...

“Put your finger here,” says the mononymous Suzala, as she instructs Arlene Krassner, both with ukuleles at their chests. Suzala is tutoring Krassner in the B-minor seventh, or Bm7 chord, on the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Hours before playing a sold out concert, an acclaimed group of musicians took time to play with the Santa Barbara Ukulele Club at the harbor. It was a special treat for the ...

ORANGE -- With all due respect to the late Johnny Cash, you haven't really experienced "I Walk the Line" until you've heard it performed at an assisted-living facility by a roving band of ukulele ...

“We were able when Grindstone Elementary School opened (in 2011) to get a grant from The Education Foundation to get ukuleles,” Smith explained to the large board meeting crowd. “It originally started ...

1879: After hearing a visiting Portuguese sailor in Honolulu play a four-stringed instrument called a machete, Hawaiians adopt it as their own and re-name it the ukulele. 1915: A ukulele-fueled ...

All Jim Beloff’s activities revolve around one tiny, understated four-string instrument: the ukulele. The singer/songwriter, musicologist and music teacher, who lives in Clinton, has been a major ...

When ukulele maestro Jake Shimabukuro wanted to produce his first album of original songs, he did what many artists before him have done: He went to Nashville. “Nashville is where a lot of songwriters ...