Abe's Ukulele Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Note: This episode was recorded before the main event of Ukulele Festival Hawaii held on July 18th, 2021.

Hey there again everyone! I had the incredible honor to hang out virtually with Roy and Kathy Sakuma before the Ukulele Festival Hawaii and talk about the festival and everything that goes into it.

Festival website https://www.ukulelefesthawaii.org

Ukulele Festival Hawaii on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/RoySakumaProductions

Craig and Sarah’s website http://craigandsarah.com

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Note: This episode was recorded before the main event of Ukulele Festival Hawaii held on July 18th, 2021.

Hello everyone! I had the great honor of sitting down and talking story with Karlie G before the Ukulele Festival Hawaii.

Karlie’s website https://karliegoya.com

Karlie G on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/Karli3G/featured

Festival website https://www.ukulelefesthawaii.org

Ukulele Festival Hawaii on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/RoySakumaProductions

Craig and Sarah’s website http://craigandsarah.com

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I finally got to meet this ukulele hero of mine. Kimo is a mighty fine player and teacher. We sat down in Manoa in July and talked story about moveable chord shapes, expensive ukes, baritones vs tenors, and plenty more.

A few builders mentioned

Lichty

Devine

Here are some videos of Kimo playing and teaching.

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Caught up with Jake on his tour through Hartford, CT.

We chatted about all sorts of stuff, like songwriting, practice, his favorite artists, and tons of other stuff.

Here are some things/artists that were mentioned

Tube dreamer pedal

Dearling is Dave Preston's other band

Pink Floyd

Jacob Collier

Chris Thile

Bela Fleck

Edgar Myer

Victor Wooten

Paco de Lucia

Al Di Meola

Carlos Montoya

Andres Segovia

Winnipeg Folk Festival is when Jake and James played together

Benny Chong

Abe Lagrimas

Bryan Tolentino

Mika Kane

Byron Yasui

Britni Paiva

Taimane

Honoka

Herb Ohta Jr.

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I caught up with Craig and Sarah after their busy year.

This episode is really dense with ukulele advice, so buckle up.

They just released a holiday album. Check it out at http://www.cheemaisel.com/store/christmas-island

Craig and Sarah teach online here https://artistworks.com/ukulele-lessons-craig-sarah

At the time of posting, there's a 50% off sale on 1 year memberships.

There's a lot of related links today 😁

Tampa Bay Ukulele Getaway

Port Townsend Ukulele Festival

Tunes in the Dunes

Berliner Ukulele Festival

GNUF

Sunshine Coast Ukulele Festival

Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish is in NYC

Christmas in LA

Lyle Ritz's How Bout Uke

Abe Lagrimas' New Album

One of Bryan Tolentino's albums

Ben Folds

Ekolu

A performance by Hapa

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Paul Okami is the Mini Boss, or Vice President of KoAloha Ukulele.

I got to sit and chat with him back in July when I visited Oahu.

https://www.koaloha.com

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In my first semi-high-tech remote interview, my guest was Brad Bordessa, an ukulele teacher and player located on the Big Island of Hawaii.

We talked about strings, baritones, performing, and more.

We also talked about how to pronounce ukulele. 😱🤔🧐🤙

Here's a great article Brad wrote about it.

Brad's website can be found here

His baritone ukulele site is here.

You can hear/buy Brad's music here.

For those curious about the situation regarding the Thirty Meter Telescope, check out this page. And this Facebook page

The two sites mentioned for strings were Strings by Mail and Just Strings

Ukulele Review Video Podcast with Brad Bordessa

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Back in July I got to chat with Jenny Peters, teacher and author of many great ukulele books.

We talked about classroom teaching, teaching challenges, pedagogy, and more.

You can find more about Jenny at her site here

Gift for listeners of the show

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In May of 2019, I got to catch up with James Hill at the Ashokan Ukulele Festival in New York. We talked about his new album, technology, throat singing, playing without monitors, and plenty of other interesting things.

James Hill's website

James and Anne's new album

Inuit throat singing

not to be confused with

Mongolian throat singing

Radiolab episode on bit flipping

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Link to this show on RadioPublic

Check out Uketropolis if you're looking for more uke learning resources.

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My guest today is Casey MacGill. Casey is from Southern California and I caught up with him at the Ashokan Uke Fest. This is the second episode from my Ashokan series.

Ashokan Uke Fest

Casey's website

Watch Casey play a song with his uke in his [Ukulele Magazine article (https://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/for-casey-macgill-the-swing-is-the-thing).

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