ANTIOCH — East County’s only ukulele band, The Delta Strummers, is out to prove that its favored musical instrument is more versatile than most people believe it is. The group of more than 50 ...
Striving to be an oasis of island sound in the desert, the Sun City Strummers pull, pluck and strum heartstrings as well as ukelele strings. The 48-member group, made up of Sun City Oro Valley ...
KETCHIKAN — When walking through the Ketchikan Public Library or down a hall of the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan Campus’ Robertson Building or even through a quiet residential neighborhood ...
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Saturday morning and 40-plus members of the South Bay Strummers are tuning their ukuleles. They tote table-top music stands and one of five books, packed with hundreds of songs, to ...
HIGHLAND | The Just for Fun Ukulele Strummers meet to make music from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Lincoln Center, 2450 Lincoln Ave. "We enjoy each other’s company like one big happy family," ...
When Austrian Franz Xaver Gruber composed “Silent Night” in 1818, he certainly didn’t imagine its being played on ukuleles — with a hint of Hawaiian flavor as well. But that’s exactly what the Sunset ...
Pennie Nixon was in her early 60s when she picked up a musical instrument for the first time. She and her husband were camped at an RV park near San Diego when she heard a fellow camper strumming ...
Anyone who still thinks of a ukulele as a simple instrument of Hawaiian or Tiny Tim fame is in for a big surprise when the Delta Strummers take the stage on Sunday, May 21 at the El Campanil Theatre.