2019 Palm Strings Ukulele Festival – Redux

Nov 24, 2019 | FEATURED, news

The 2019 Palm Strings Ukulele Festival is in the books and we’re finally getting a chance to write down our thoughts about it. It was a very good festival for us and we loved being able to reconnect with so many of our ukulele ohana.  We debuted our latest micro...

San Diego Festival of Arts

Jun 12, 2019 | FEATURED, news

Diana and I just got back from the 2019 San Diego Festival of Arts held in Waterfront Park. We decided to go to the festival sort of at the last minute and we’re glad we did. It was a terrific show, we got to hang with lots of friends, made many new friends and...

news UPDATE

May 31, 2019 | FEATURED, Uncategorized

We’ve been doing some backend work on the websites recently. We updated security on the front- and back-ends and upgraded a number of other things. Now we can get to some overdue updates and keep getting back in the groove.  It’s kind of short-notice, but...

Stepping Back Into the Sunshine

Oct 5, 2018 | FEATURED

2018 has been a… significant year. The most significant event was that my Dad died May, 24, 2018. After a difficult few years, he passed away quietly of natural causes. While I could see it coming for some time, when he actually died, I wasn’t quite as...

Looking forward to 2018

Mar 9, 2018 | FEATURED

2017 has been a watershed year. It’s been a year of unforeseen events that have significantly altered our view of the world as well as our role in it. These events have not been ukulele related, in fact the ukulele part of our life, in stark contrast, has been a...

Palm Strings Ukulele Festival III

Feb 15, 2017 | 2017 Palm Strings III, FEATURED

Festival season is about to begin and we are heading to Palm Springs to open our year. 2016 was a challenging year with Diana having back surgery in May and me having shoulder surgery in August, but all things considered, we’re both doing pretty darn well....