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Trendspotting Tuesday: UkeTube
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The ukulele is a tiny guitar that many associate with
hula dancing
at Hawaiian luaus or even Merry Prankster
Tiny Tim
. But leave it to YouTubers to prove that, actually, ukuleles are everywhere if you just do a little looking. From parodies to
punk rock
, to heartfelt
originals
to blazing displays of
finger-picking skills
, it's time to reconsider the many sounds and styles emanating from this humble instrument. On today's
Trendspotting Tuesday
, we bring you UkeTube!
Bosko and Honey
lead the way with their
Ukulele Safari USA
series. Based in Australia, they are traveling the world, performing and interviewing some of our favorite UkeTubers, like
MERCEDEZZZ
and
Ukuleleaya
from Japan (who decorated her ukulele with cake!).
Also featured is the uke community's Next Big Thing Julia Nunes (aka
jaaaaaaa
), who submitted a brand new
original
just for this special ukulele celebration, right before she takes her wee guitar on tour with Ben Folds this summer. Julia was also spotted attending this summer's first annual
Bushman Ukulele Luau
in Nashville, Indiana -- along with ukers/users
Seeso
,
The Barnkickers
and
Populele
.
There are so many stellar examples of ukuleles from all around the world on YouTube, uploaded from
Fiji
to
Russia
, that there was no way we could include all of them on this list. We even found some good how-to-make-your-own-ukulele
clips
; once you have yours, there are folks like
ukulaladotcom
who can teach you how to play indie rock on it.
And finally there's
Lauren
(of the Moaning Myrtles) and
Lena
(of the Butterbeer Experience) who bought their ukes, immediately wrote a song about guacamole, and then filmed
it
right there in the store's parking lot. Only on YouTube…
Yours in Uke,
The YouTube Team
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