Ho'okipa Ukuleles

02/11/2023

Look! One of the Superbowl-Kelce brothers is also a tenor sax player!

Wishing our friend Jason Kelce the best of luck in the Big Game this weekend!

02/02/2023

In honor of “World Ukulele Day” today, I display my much loved instruments: Koa baritone, Mango tenor, and Mango “chocolate heart” 6-string tenor. All “Ho’okipa ukuleles” made by yours truly between 2015 and 2020.

12/15/2022

When you find your teacher, learning is enhanced in so many different ways. Meet James Hill. Uketropolis is where you can begin to study with him.

12/14/2022

We had a great interview with OPB Think Out Loud at Bargeway Pub talking about Little Music City and NW Country Music!

Be sure and tune into OPB today, 12/13, in the 12:00 hour to hear the interview and performance!

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/12/12/meet-the-brothers-making-the-dalles-a-little-music-city-with-live-music-7-days-a-week/

12/14/2022

https://youtu.be/cItsunrFSsU
While imprisoned in Iolani Palace, Hawai’i’s Queen, Liliu’okalani, composed this beautiful song. The lyrics were, quite noticeably, a mixture of Hawai’ian and English. This rendition is instrumental—recorded for my students. I’m celebrating achieving 100 followers of the Ho’okipa page today: YOU are my unfading flower! Thank you for supporting my efforts!

By Queen Liliuokalani, she wrote Ku’u Pua Paoakalani while imprisoned after the American coup that deposed her. She describes her people as “the never fadin...

12/05/2022

If I am ever nostalgic for the tumultuous sixties, it is because the musicians were our spokespeople. They became prophets. Before the internet, musicians were our influencers, and they wrote lyrics that have influenced my memory of life events forever after. What will we sing about now?

12/04/2022

Hello followers. I just read on this page that Ho’okipa ukuleles page has 95 followers AND when I get 100 followers I will be able to see information on my “followers”. I was instructed to ask my FB friends from my personal page to like my Ho’okipa page and “follow it”. Makes no sense to me—these are personal friends, not necessarily at all interested in ukuleles. But if YOU are a fan of handmade, beautiful and tuneful instruments, please share my page and get me 5 more followers before the dust has settled. I am curious about who says they “follow me”. Curiosity is a bad itch!

10/13/2022

Jan 6 committee convened this morning, not as a heating, but as a business meeting. After publically reviewing the evidence of then-
President Trump’s role in the events from the campaign to Jan 6, the meeting ended with the committee voting in a unanimous recorded vote to subpoena documents from him related to their investigation AND to obtain sworn testimony from Donald Trump himself. It was a consequential day.

01/05/2022

01/05/2022

Day 3 of Gorge Community Music Tribute!