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Last updated 31 July 2010

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Flea Market Music

Jim Beloff’s site.

Brudda Bu's Ukulele Heaven

Amazing pics, history, treasure chest of info.

Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum

Hall of fame, expos, events

Ukelele Boogaloo

Songs, chord stuff, fun stuff

Ukulele Society of Great Britain

The name says it!

The George Formby Society

The name says it!

UkeFarm Radio

 

Internet radio station

Top 50 Ukulele Sites

Listing of most popular uke sites

The Ukecast Podcast

 

Some of the best original ukulele music from around the world along with news, features, interviews & reviews.  Recent interviews have included Ralph Shaw and Lyle Ritz.

The Ukulele Man

Lots of stuff, events. Tips about buying.

UkuleleStrummers.com

Photos, accessories, chords

The Ukulele Hut

Instructions on how to make a ukulele. Also, history.

Ukulele Diner

Walk through the doors and see what happens.

Bounty Ukulele

Hawaii Ukulele Guide.

Uke Hunt

Amazing site—links, news, videos, tabs, chords, posts

Pete Howlett

Pete, based in Wales, builds acoustic and electric ukes.

Check out the Uke kits.

Ukulele Books

Opening words on the site are:

One day I thought to myself, "I love to make books and I love to play the ukulele. Can I put these two loves together? Can I make a book out of a uke?"

UkuleleDav

French site— plenty of tabs in English.

Very detailed version of Five Foot Two

The Ukulele Shop guide on buying a ukulele

Guide on sizes, shapes, types of wood.

Poffle  www.poffle.co.uk

Helpful and instructive information on chords, theory, transposing, writing tunes, very detailed, and written in a friendly tone, with plenty of example clips to listen to.

Chordmaster

Dedicated to plastic ukes and automatic chording devices. With a Chord Master simulator and dedicated tabs. www.chordmaster.org

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Good for

Nalu Music – Ukulele Arcade 

History

Brudda Bu's Ukulele Heaven

Great Ukulele Players

UkUke

Starting a ukulele club

Curt Sheller

History & general info. Lessons.

Spirit of Aloha

 

Article: How I learned to play the ukulele

 

Banjo Ukulele

History and photos of Banjo Ukulele

Honolulu Star Bulletin

Three nice articles

Jazz Age 1920s

Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike) bio and info

G4MBY.com

George Formby songs in Midi format

NoteCanons

Vintage photos & audio files

The Free Dictionary

History, list of musicians

iBlueGrass.com and

m-navydays.com

 

http://www.catfish1952.com/MatchstickMan.html 

 

Matchstick Man 1 & 2.  The story and work of Jack Hall of Brighton who, while in the Merchant Navy, fought off boredom making instruments out of burned out matches.  Lots of photos.

 

Also, the matchstick instruments can be seen being played on YouTube.  Unfortunately, there is only a glimpse of the uke in "Jambalaya" segment three, so don't blink ;-)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w2VNdDV6Vzo

Ukuleles by Kawika

Vintage photos and history

The Jumping Flea

Short movie about history of the ukulele

PohakuUkulele

Guide on installing pegs, changing strings and other goodies

Ukulele Languages

Going on a trip? Take a look at “Ukulele World Tour

Info on ukulele in Brunei, Indonesia, Poland, and many other countries

Name of performer / group

Website

The Langley Ukulele Ensemble

http://www.langleyukes.com/

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

http://www.ukuleleorchestra.com

James Hill

http://www.ukulelejames.com/links.htm

Jake Shimabukuro

http://www.jakeshimabukuro.com/

The Hula Bluebirds

http://www.hulabluebirds.co.uk/

Lyle Ritz

Contact via Flea Market Music  or   Portland Ukulele Association

The Dulwich Ukulele Club

The Dulwich Ukulele Club

His Master’s Ukulele

(Nipper)

http://nipper.ukeland.com/music.html

 

Craig Robertson

 http://www.robertsonstudio.com/index.html

Howlin Hobbit

http://www.howlinhobbit.com/index.php

Lil’ Rev

http://www.lilrev.com/

Ralph Shaw

http://www.ralphshaw.ca/

Herb Ohta Jr

http://www.herbohtajr.com/

Ukulele Bartt

http://www.bartt.net

 

Steven Sproat

www.stevensproat.com

Clive Harvey

www.myspace.com/cliveharvey

Wolfgang Schneider   (known as WS64)

http://www.youtube.com/user/WS64

 

Musician

Song

Martin Wheatley

The Dambusters March    and Stars and Stripes Forever

Jake Shimabukuro

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George Harrison)

John King

Bouree from the Partita no. 3 for unaccompanied violin BWV 1006 by J.S. Bach

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Life on Mars (David Bowie)

George Formby

When I'm cleaning windows

Ohta-san

Hawaii

Israel Kamakawiwo

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Bill Moore

That’s why the lady is a tramp

Roy Smeck

Wizard of the Strings

Roy Smeck

Tiger Rag

Ukulele Bartt

Stand by me

Nick Browning

Bach Prelude

Aldrine

Legend of Zelda

Ukulele Mozart (Kenji Kondo)

Ukulele Mozart

Mercedes Landazuri

I Will Survive (A haunting version on Banjo Ukulele)

Ukustanzie

Rehab

Julia

Destiny’s Child

Clara Belle

Summer Face

Colin Tribe

Misirlou     Take 5

Check out Colin’s YouTube channel:   http://www.youtube.com/user/colinrtribe

And some info on his teaching material—click the Teaching page on this site.

Sophie Madeleine and The Sailor Jerry’s

Goody Goody

Wolfgang Schneider   (known as WS64)

Sunny

If you are a Beatles fan … you need to look at his other videos.