Jake Shimabukuro is a soft-spoken, particularly polite 31-year-old Hawaiian who turns into Eddie Van Halen when he's holding a ukulele. There isn't a "Ukulele Hero'' video game. Any game that could ...

Big, happy sounds came out of an orchestra of small instruments Sunday afternoon at the United Church of Gainesville. Marc Revenson, a ukulele performer known as Lil’ Rev, led a workshop followed by a ...

The ukulele is a dangerous instrument. A little bit of uke, applied by discerning musicians, can be a good thing. Too much of the four-stringed, beach baby guitar, though, can drown a listener so ...

Chris Catalano, 48, remembers taking piano lessons as a first-grader. “I went to a house that looked like the ‘Amityville Horror,’ and the lady smelled like mothballs,” he recalled. His mother would ...