San Diegans will have two chances over the next week to see ukulele innovator Jake Shimabukuro, who performs Friday at Pechanga Resort & Casino and Oct. 12 at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts.

If you want to pick up an instrument that’s versatile and easy to play, consider the ukulele. It’s a hugely accessible way to get into playing music since you can buy ukuleles inexpensively and you ...

Tracing the ukulele's resurgence in popularity after the happy little guitar's appeal dipped from a post WWII-high in the 1960s leads right back to the Webbs' basement in 1999 back when they lived in ...

Jake Shimabukuro played a solo set at the Highline Ballroom in New York early in 2008 and stirred it up with the resonant warmth of his four-string ukulele, conjuring musical details worthy of an ...