Abe's Ukulele Podcast

I finally got to meet this ukulele hero of mine. Kimo is a mighty fine player and teacher. We sat down in Manoa in July and talked story about moveable chord shapes, expensive ukes, baritones vs tenors, and plenty more.

A few builders mentioned

Lichty

Devine

Here are some videos of Kimo playing and teaching.

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Caught up with Jake on his tour through Hartford, CT.

We chatted about all sorts of stuff, like songwriting, practice, his favorite artists, and tons of other stuff.

Here are some things/artists that were mentioned

Tube dreamer pedal

Dearling is Dave Preston's other band

Pink Floyd

Jacob Collier

Chris Thile

Bela Fleck

Edgar Myer

Victor Wooten

Paco de Lucia

Al Di Meola

Carlos Montoya

Andres Segovia

Winnipeg Folk Festival is when Jake and James played together

Benny Chong

Abe Lagrimas

Bryan Tolentino

Mika Kane

Byron Yasui

Britni Paiva

Taimane

Honoka

Herb Ohta Jr.

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I caught up with Craig and Sarah after their busy year.

This episode is really dense with ukulele advice, so buckle up.

They just released a holiday album. Check it out at http://www.cheemaisel.com/store/christmas-island

Craig and Sarah teach online here https://artistworks.com/ukulele-lessons-craig-sarah

At the time of posting, there's a 50% off sale on 1 year memberships.

There's a lot of related links today

Paul Okami is the Mini Boss, or Vice President of KoAloha Ukulele.

I got to sit and chat with him back in July when I visited Oahu.

https://www.koaloha.com

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In my first semi-high-tech remote interview, my guest was Brad Bordessa, an ukulele teacher and player located on the Big Island of Hawaii.

We talked about strings, baritones, performing, and more.

We also talked about how to pronounce ukulele.

Back in July I got to chat with Jenny Peters, teacher and author of many great ukulele books.

We talked about classroom teaching, teaching challenges, pedagogy, and more.

You can find more about Jenny at her site here

Gift for listeners of the show

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In May of 2019, I got to catch up with James Hill at the Ashokan Ukulele Festival in New York. We talked about his new album, technology, throat singing, playing without monitors, and plenty of other interesting things.

James Hill's website

James and Anne's new album

Inuit throat singing

not to be confused with

Mongolian throat singing

Radiolab episode on bit flipping

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Link to this show on RadioPublic

Check out Uketropolis if you're looking for more uke learning resources.

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My guest today is Casey MacGill. Casey is from Southern California and I caught up with him at the Ashokan Uke Fest. This is the second episode from my Ashokan series.

Ashokan Uke Fest

Casey's website

Watch Casey play a song with his uke in his [Ukulele Magazine article (https://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/for-casey-macgill-the-swing-is-the-thing).

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I visited Kauai and hung out with the Ukulele Underground crew for a day. We did two podcast episodes and this is the first one. We talked about playing, performing, chickens, and more.

Note on Kauai: it is the oldest out of the main Hawaiian islands.

Video version is here: https://youtu.be/9VVAlZZwRQ0

Part 2 is here : https://ukuleleunderground.com/2019/07/tll-podcast-68-ukulele-aloha/

Some things we mentioned in the show:

Niihau (mentioned in the show) is the westernmost island of Hawaii, and is not open to the public.

Jim Beloff episode

My short Blackbird cover

Bandito Tyler by Aldrine Guerrero

Ukulele Underground

I can't find the James Hill album online T_T

Dragon by Jake Shimabukuro

Say Anything's first album

Ka'au Crater Boys

We Are One

Rump Shaker

Pure Heart 2

Panic at the Disco

Jim Croce's greatest hits

Kate Rusby

The Wilderness

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Back in May, I travelled up to the Magic Fluke Co. in Sheffield, MA to chat with Bryan Tolentino.

He was doing a little workshop/concert tour through the Northeast USA.

Find Bryan's website here

Live stream with Craig Chee and Sarah Maisel

Here are some of the artists mentioned in the show.

Roy Smeck

Ohta San

Peter Moon

Byron Yasui

Jake Shimabukuro... do you really need a link?