Polaroid...

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UkeFarm Radio...

Online UKEFARM radio is sensational… OK.. this is just ONE of a few thousand online radio stations by live365.com. But it’s certainly one of my favorites! Enjoy:

UkeFarm...

Unreal Fake Book...

As fake books go, none is better than one that has loads of songs, easy to use, transportable and cool. iReal has it in spades. Perfect for the Droid or iPhone, no musician should be without...

Laguna Beach Jazz Qu...

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Stars Fell On Alabam...

OK… noisy laptop and one take… Stars Fell On Alabama in C. Click HERE to enjoy this link!
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Session...

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Buffalo Brothers...

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Trio...

Laguna...

3-Hole Triumph...

The three hole Triumph is a remake of the famous Canadian Northern Ukulele by J Chalmers Doane. The Northern Triangle...

UkeCanPlay...

A nifty site also just getting off the ground! Go Uke Can Play – GO!

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Resurrection...

If you ever want to resurrect your desire to play guitar, this is the axe. Fender’s Telecoustic fits all styles, it’s a snap to play and it’s cheap.

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Background Music...

Amy paints. Amy paints a lot. She also makes jewelry and beads and crafts and… well. Here’s her latest. I only provided a little background music.

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Appalachia vs Africa...

Arguments abound around the origin of the banjo. My bet’s on Appalachia. My second bet Senegal is where the roots of p-l-a-y-i-n-g the...

Knee Mute...

Fred Bacon patented the “Soft Pedal Banjo Mute” May 31, 1928. Though it’s rarely used by any musician, and only once known in recording (Massa’s In The Cold, Cold...

DoctorUke...

A lot of time, energy, effort and and downright love for the upbeat ukulele has gone into http://doctoruke.com. For the beginning strummer to the stage jock rubbing shoulders and trading fours everyone needs to visit...

Traces Musicales...

Guy Roberts… (pronounced Gee Robear’) has been keeping the “streets of San Francisco” alive and well in France. Visit...

Post Play...

After the concert… we gather for photos.

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Tics...

The Lagunatics… well… at least some of them. Playing around Laguna Beach for a while, we’re always putting together whatever we can, whenever we can.

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BSI Redoux...

Bourbon Street Irregulars Redoux… In front of Industrial Light & Magic on a lunch break… Lee Shapiro, John Stafford and me.
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Wall Hangers...

Playable or not… they’re keepers.
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The Pot’s Orig...

6 string banjos are an oddity. This is my oldest street instrument, acquired around 1974. The pot (resonance chamber) is original all the way to the tag. But the rest is… well… conjecture. It is perfect for the guitar player wanting the...

Pick MCC...

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Pounding Brass...

F. Besson was a french brass instrument manufacturer both before and after WWII. Good horns can go for thousands though the 60′s models, in best shape, fetch tops $500. Cole’s uncle Mark got this F. Besson as a student in Bayside High,...

Hometown Epi...

This Epiphone isn’t in the current catalog but likely an older version of the EF 500 Cutaway. It’s been at Little Ruby’s for years there just for...

Autobahn Band...

Tony Horowitz is one of LA’s top studio players, internationally acclaimed trumpet artist and the author of “Warm-Up to Consistency”. Tony’s...

I Zinc...

From SoCal… downtown Laguna Beach, Zinc is t-h-e local off-beach sidewalk coffee hang. Here’s Gary Hogan of the Lagunatics, The Hollywood Comb Overs, The Gary Hogan Trio…
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Local Yokels...

San Francisco home towners. John Stafford, Cole fingering the trumpet, me on upright and David ‘Mr. San Francisco Banjo’ Marty.

Here’s a clip of Marty on his Vega extraordinaire: “San”,...

Schmook on Bluebird...

One of my favorite Bluebird shots. Some days are great. And the rare one ends perfectly. I wore my beater schmook uke out and the waves wore Cole out. The cellphone pix is me sitting on my foldie holding the best $25 I ever spent in my fifty-sumptin’...