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JOHNSON BOYS Here's a well-known bluegrass tune I recorded recently. Just an improvisation. Played clawhammer. I first came across it in 1964. It was on the B side of "Island of Dreams" , a big hit for The Springfields in that year. I bought the record. The lead female singer of that group...

MY BACK PAGES - Collaboration Here's Aldrine, Seeso, Sebi, Baron, Dominator, Nigel, RussBuss, Kelly and me. Don't know how many of you caught this last week, but it is well worth looking at.

Another video from the recent Ukulele Festival of Scotland. A sad song fro 1969 by Ralph McTell.

JAKE, JAMES, TIM, HAL and KEN We're playing a slow, bluesy, Louisiana style version of I Am A Pilgrim during this year's Ukulele Festival of Scotland.

THE DAISY-CHAIN JIG

SNOWDROP Performed during the recent Scottish Ukulele Festival

BLACKBIRD CLARA CONCERT UKE I have been fortunate enough to try quite a number of these ukes this year and I am impressed. Really impressed. I talked at length with Joe, the owner of Blackbird, at NAMM this year. Recently he gave me a lift back from the Reno Festival to San Francisco and we...

Here's an improvisation I recorded a couple of days ago. It has an intro and then section A (8 bars) followed by section B (8 bars). Play section A and B again two more times and then play section A until the end. The piece is quite slow. Here are the basic chords: INTRO Dm / / / | Dm / /...

Here's a detailed review of my new tenor built by Mike Pereira. I have known Mike for a number of years and have played many of his instruments. This is the first one I have actually bought. The workmanship is flawless. He builds superb sounding instruments. Mike lives and works in...

DRY YOUR DARLIN'S EYES PLAY ALONG After the 4 bar into this song only uses 3 main chords: C, F and G7. Here are some tips to play along. 1. Start after the 4 bar introduction. 2. Sometimes the chord of C7 is added just before the chord of F. 3. It is slow with 3 beats to the bar. 4. Each...

DIRTY OLD TOWN - Tenor Improvisation Here's a little tip that I use often. I have my uke tuned fCEA (high F). The 4th string is tuned down a full step. This means that I can use the F on the 4th string as a drone note and play in the key of F. Normally, to use the regular G 4th string as a...

Here's one of my favourite songs, written by Rogers and Hart in 1934. Both the strumming and the melody part are recorded live straight into camera.

A new model from Ohana.

Another video recorded during the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain, earlier this year.

I asked a bunch of my friends to join me on stage during the Saturday evening concert at the recent ukulele festival in Prague. The performers include: Tobias Elof, Ukulollo, Shelley Rickey, Peter Byrom, Les Hilton, Tim Cooke, UkuleleZaza and Nicolaj Wamberg. Hope you enjoy.

Here's Francesco Albertazzi and I performing this class tune at the Czech Fest in Prague last weekend.

Smash The Windows - Tobias, Nicolaj and Ken Recorded during the Saturday evening concert in Prague last weekend. I invited Elof and Wamberg to join me for this well-known Irish jig. What great musicians they are.

Last weekend was the 2nd Czech Festival, held at a brewery, in a village near Prague. What a wonderful festival it was. On Monday, all the performers except for Nico'o and I had left for home. Our flights were in the evening, so we decided to record something. We called this improvisation...

Here's a video shot for me by Craig Chee from backstage at the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain a few weeks ago. It is always a privilege to get to play music with others, particularly such excellent musicians.

Here is another recording that Lionel, Antoine and I made outside our hotel during the recent Ukulele Festival of Great Britain. Lionel and Antoine from France were performing in the festival as U.K.E.