[mplpost] Ukelele Artist

[Allison Brown]

Hi Mapleposters:
As a record store slave (tee hee!) I often answer these types of "looking 
for specific instrument artist" questions...
An excellent UKE artist is a guy named IZRAEL K'AM'I'K'OLE whose stuff will 
be found in your local record shop's world music section...
I'm not 100% on the spelling but most likely your helpful service rep will 
know what you're talking about if you ask for "the ukelele guy" or "the big 
guy"...
... his versions of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and "Wonderful World" are 
featured on the soundtrack for "Finding Forrester"... although he has at 
least three discs of Hawaiian and traditional songs as well as pop standards 
such as mentioned above. He's become quite popular!
Hopefully helpful! Enjoy!
Allison



>From: Gregg Lawless <lawless@interlog.com>
>Reply-To: maplepost@icomm.ca
>To: maplepost@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: [mplpost] The ukelele subject gets beaten to death
>Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:09:11 -0500
>
>I was playing in a school in Port Elgin, ON. a year or so ago....spotted a 
>big pile of 5 boxes at the side of the stage that needed to be moved...they 
>were filled with ukes....I asked the music teacher if I could buy one from 
>the music department...he said: "...ah, just take a box of 'em..."
>
>I did. (My kids love 'em.)
>
>Ggg
>
>p.s. My dad found a "beauty" in the attic of his grandfather's general 
>store in wee Grafton, ON. in 1942...it was built in 1865, has ivory inlay 
>and ornate dice(!) painted on it...Grit Laskin would be proud(!)...
>
>
>On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 02:53  PM, Jesse Kumagai wrote:
>
>>
>>>>To take it further, who is making reasonable ukeleles?
>>>
>>>Er ... Mattel toys?
>>>Richard
>>
>>I personally prefer the action on the Hasbro models, and they use genuine 
>>farm-raised Canadian plastic rather than the mass-produced plastics on 
>>Mattel.  You have to be willing to live with painted-on frets though.
>>
>>
>>Jesse Kumagai
>>Administrative Coordinator, Music
>>Harbourfront Centre
>>Tel.  416 973 3735
>>Fax. 416 973 8729
>>mailto:jesse@harbourfront.on.ca
>>http://www.harbourfront.on.ca
>>235 Queens Quay West
>>Toronto, Ontario
>>Canada  M5J 2G8
>>
>>
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