November 15th, 2006

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More Ukulele Videos Than You Could Ever Want

Regular web surfers have probably seen this striking video of some dude sitting in Central Park playing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. He is quite a viruoso with the mini-guitar.

As it turns out, that’s just the tip of the ukulele iceberg. Midnight Ukulele Disco hosts hundreds such tunes, most of which seem to have been recorded at a weekly ukulele (and banjo) cabaret. There’s comedy and tragedy (pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical…) on this well-designed site. Some of my favourites are rock covers by Gio Gaynor, who rocks out with Sweet Child O’ Mine and Psycho Killer.

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Chris
November 15th, 2006
9:11 am

I can’t let a ukulele thread go by without pimping my friend James Hill. He’s a great guy, and a hell of a ukue player - he’s played a bunch of shows with Jake Shimabukuro, the guy playing the Beatles in Central Park. Some of his stuff is up on Midnight Ukulele Disco - check it out.

I was in a band with James once - talk about a humbling experience. That guy can wail.

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Lincoln
November 15th, 2006
7:14 pm

I however, can’t let a post on the uke go by without mentioning Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Awesome. Not a wailer in this one, but a legend. And, a really big guy.

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alice in wonderland
November 16th, 2006
4:00 am

Hey Darren, thanks for this posting. It’s a true gift to the world! ;-)

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