The Strum Shop is an acoustic shop located in Roseville, California which specializes in ukuleles, acoustic guitars, banjos and mandolins. They also carry a variety of other curious instruments that you should visit the store to see for yourself.
The Strum Shop was opened by Stew Herried and Dan Elliott in May of 2012 when they saw a need for someone to support the rapidly growing community of ukulele players in the greater sacramento area. The club Uke University, founded by Stu in 2010 had grown to well over 300 members in just two years and now boasts over 400 members. The bluegrass folks have also found a home here at The Strum Shop. Members of the Sacramento chapter of the California Bluegrass Association get together on the fourth thursday of each month for a jam. Acoustic music of all styles really seems to have become the escape of choice in our heavily digitally saturated society. Here at The Strum Shop, we are more than happy to oblige.
The Folk Project’s NJ Uke Fest will present workshops, concerts, and sing-alongs in Rockaway, New Jersey. Tickets are $95 for the entire weekend of concerts, workshops, dinner, open stages, and sing-along/play-alongs. Attendance is limited to 50 guests. On Sunday we host our traditional outdoor sing-along/play-along on Morristown Green.
This weekend event is dedicated to creating a community of ukulele players from the world famous to those just getting started.
Expand your musical universe with some of North America’s greatest musical talents and enjoy the wild ocean beaches at Westwind on the central Oregon coast.
The annual Maui Ukulele Festival is a full afternoon of ukulele music at the first-class venue, the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Bring your lawn chairs or roll out a blanket on the lawn and enjoy some of the islands’ favorite ukulele players. Since 2006, the Maui Ukulele Festival has featured Herb Ohta Sr. (Ohta-San), Jake Shimabukuro, Holunape, Raiatea Helm, Manoa DNA, Paula Fuga, Richard Ho'opi'i, Brittni Paiva, Kelly Boy Delima, Derek Sebastian and more, including local kupuna and keiki players! Ukulele door prizes, food booths, and more.
Kicking off the first ever Albuquerque Ukekopelli Festival will be a concert featuring Lil’ Rev and Heidi Swedberg. These two nationally renowned ukulele musicians will also be conducting workshops the following day. The concert starts at 7:00pm on Friday, September 26, 2014 at the African American Performing Arts Center on the grounds of Expo New Mexico. Tickets are now available through Brown Paper Tickets. For more information email us at info@ukefun.com or call us at 505-974-0084
Kicking off the first ever Albuquerque Ukekopelli Festival will be a concert featuring Lil’ Rev and Heidi Swedberg. These two nationally renowned ukulele musicians will also be conducting workshops the following day. The concert starts at 7:00pm on Friday, September 26, 2014 at the African American Performing Arts Center on the grounds of Expo New Mexico. Tickets are now available through Brown Paper Tickets. For more information email us at info@ukefun.com or call us at 505-974-0084
The Connecticut Ukulele Festival was created by ukulele enthusiasts who recognized the bottomless desire by the Uke community to meet, learn, strum, sing and enjoy all things Ukulele. Our September 29 event is our “beta.” Our goal is to learn how to throw the best possible Uke festival and to develop long relationships with our attendees.
Because of serious problems with our reservations at Little Basin, we are moving this year’s “Burning Uke” to a new venue: The Hidden Valley Music Seminars Center, located in the heart of beautiful Carmel Valley. It’s the same place that’s been our happy home for Smoldering Uke these past few years. We chose Hidden Valley because it’s a well-run facility with a friendly staff that provides us with a very comfortable place to stay, eat and play. Although it’s a slightly longer drive for most of us who live in the city of Santa Cruz, it’s a pleasant drive—and there are no windy mountain roads full of pot holes to navigate.
We also have a new date for Burning Uke - Thursday, September 10th to Sunday the 13th. This is about a week earlier than we’ve held the event in previous years, and may help us avoid the early-fall rain showers that have plagued us for the last two years!.
In California's beautiful Napa Valley!
There’s loads of ‘ukulele merriment coming your way at this year’s Wine Country ‘Ukulele Festival, starting with a camp-fire jam at Bothe State Park, Thursday evening, September 10, and ending with Heidi Swedberg and the Smoking Jackets at Velo Vino on Sunday afternoon, September 13…..not to mention all the fun in between!
Mark ‘Spanky’ Gutierrez says... Why you ask? As a very famous rodent once said “because we love you”! I was privy to some great ‘ukulele festivals in the early 2000’s. During that time I met some uke players that were not only great players but they were also great teachers! They had a passion for playing, teaching and they are great people too! I have said it before and I will say it again “uke people are the most open sharing folks you will ever meet. Those early festivals revived a life long passion in me that drove me back to college to get a Music Degree at UNO. I have always felt like I some how owed the ‘ukulele community something back... well here we are!