Grace VanderWaal, age 12, got a standing ovation for her ukulele performance of her original song on America's Got Talent.
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Jun 9, 2016
12-year-old ukulele player wows judges on America's Got Talent
Listen to Tiny Tim's unreleased cover of "House of the Rising Sun"
In 1994, pop artist, songwriter, and filmmaker Martin Sharp produced a covers album for legendary singer/ukulele maestro Tiny Tim. The album, “Tiny Tim’s Pop Album,” was never officially released but it’s really quite something. Below, from those recording sessions, is Tim’s take on the traditional folk tune “The House of the Rising Sun.” “Tim’s appropriation […]
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Watch this robotic ukulele player pluck out some lovely tunes
UkuRobot is a programmable ukulele player. Here, it plays the haunting theme from Requiem for a Dream, since used in a kajillion movie trailers. In the video below, there’s a second shot of its mechanisms.
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Black Sabbath For Ukulele
The music book we’ve all been waiting for: Black Sabbath For Ukulele Youtuber seesocovers is pretty amazing! Black Sabbath For Ukulele via Amazon (Thanks, Peter!)
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Take part in the clean energy movement with Arcadia
At this point, it’s every single person’s responsibility to reduce their own carbon footprint and transition to a more sustainable lifestyle. But if you consider the grim fact that the biggest culprit of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the U.S. is burning fossil fuels for electricity, things, like pivoting to metal straws and […]
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Canva Pro can be the ultimate design tool for all us non-designers
Companies that don’t have their own in-house design teams (which means 99 percent of all companies these days) face lots of serious questions. Among those questions is how you keep up with all the design requirements of a 21st-century company without the personnel. It isn’t just a website or an annual product catalog anymore. It’s […]
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Upgrade your PC with this sale on refurbished computers from Microsoft, HP, Dell, and more
In case you’re one of those computer shoppers who instinctively turns up their nose at the very mention of the word refurbished, here are a couple myths worth dispelling. Refurbished equals junk somebody didn’t want. While desktops, laptops, notebooks, Chromebooks and tablets marked as refurbished may have been unboxed at some point, meaning they can […]
