Over the past year, the weekly Rocky River Senior Center Ukulele Club has emerged with roughly 30 members, whom Wooley describes as being serious performers. This interest has led to various gigs.

I was seven and Jimi was 12. There was a ukulele, it had one string and that’s where Jimi started. He took it. Jimi at his Mayfair flat after he moved to London before his career went stellar (Image: ...

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I Am Strikes’ music exhibits a wide range of both musical and emotional depth. In one moment weaving themes of emotional strife and struggles with mental health over nimble acoustic guitar and in the ...

It looks like a toy guitar but the bright, cheery-sounding ukulele is riding a wave of popularity as the trendiest instrument for everyone from kids to retirees to learn. The instrument brings to mind ...

"Aloha, everyone!" is Cynthia Lin's cheerful greeting to start her ukulele instructional videos which have compiled millions of views on YouTube. It is like a dear friend's individual welcoming. Her ...

Eddie Vedder hunches silently over his stool, ragged flannel and ragged soul. Alone onstage, he cradles a tiny wooden instrument. Bass Concert Hall holds its breath. We'd sat in neat rows waiting for ...

Rock legend Jimi Hendrix was famous for playing with his teeth but his taste for music came from an unlikely source... a battered ukulele with just one string. The crumpled instrument was in a garage ...