OokTown - The Ukulele Podcast

After a couple year hiatus, we're back at the Denver Ukulele Festival 2023, and with us are first time guests Bobby Alu from Down Under, Honoka from the great state of Hawaii, and long-time guest and supporter of the show, Casey Cormier.

The heat goes on through the hottest summer on record, and we can't get enough of GNUF. So we invited Mary Agnes, one of the founders of the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival, and Robin, long-time GNUF volunteer, along with a rich tranche of topics.

From far across the Pond, we bring you this special edition of the OokTown Podcast recorded at the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival in Huddersfield, England, with many new and returning guests, all interviewed by my co-host Doug Brown!

It's our spring edition, and we continue our theme of the healing power of the ukulele with our guest David Blake, philanthropist and founder of an organization dedicated to bringing innovative ukulele based therapy programs to hospitals, veteran groups

While the snows falls on Los Angeles and solar flares pummel the earth, we find our warm and safe spot for wellness with the CEO of the Ukulele Kids Club, Marlén, and learn about the history, programs, and Big Hairy Audacious Goal of the UKC for 2023.

Hey, Internet, we're back! And we have a GREAT show for you with the amazing Brittni Paiva, Hawaii homegrown ukulele performer, producer, and songwriter who has shared the stage with Santana and Tommy Immanuel, and she's just getting started!

On the show this fine spring day is James Hill to tell us about his collaborative ukulele album called Uke Heads, where you can get your ticket to a once-in-a-lifetime experience to help him make music! Plus, we learn that Tony Danza had a talk show.

Like the arrival of Spring, we welcome back long-time friend of the show Victoria Vox, who brings us songs that she performs live from her upcoming new album, and talk about how art inspired her to write new songs.

Coming to you straight outta Culver City, Cali Rose comes to talk to us about the power of the ukulele in music therapy, takes us through her journey from studying nursing to full-time musician. So buckle and enjoy the ride!

Not even a power outage could prevent Marlowe from joining the show! And stay to the end to hear an exclusive sneak peak of a song about making her big leap from Michigan to seek her fortune in LA, all coming up on the OokTown Podcast.

On the show is YouTube sensation and ukulele teacher Bernadette. We get to hear her incredible story of teaching school in a small town in California, to getting ukuleles in the classroom in Okinawa, Japan, and then coming home to conquer the Internet.

On this show, well, we must have said his name three times, because Kimo Hussey is making an appearance to school us on teaching music, ukulele, and the origins of Hawaiian ukulele music.

Welcome to part two of our 100th episode! We have Gerald Ross, Victoria Vox and Matt Stead. Our show is loaded with reflections on past shows, what new things we started doing, more on collaborating over the internet, and plenty of ukulele!

We've reached a milestone I never expected to happen: This is our 100th episode and 10th anniversary show. Come join Lucy of Lucy and La Mer, Aaron Keim of the Quiet American duo as they join us for a very special two-part show.

Like Meghan Trainor says, it's "All About That Bass." That's right, it's time we revisited the U-Bass. We have first time guests Michael Kohan, a U-Bass gear-geek and Patron of the show, and Stephen Cox, bass instructor with his own YouTube chan

There're all kinds of things about online ukulele instruction that've been fermenting while in lockdown, and guests Lisa Kljaich and Phil Doleman to let us know what been growing. Plus, ideas for your video lessons and workshops, bear safety, and more

We welcome first time guests Meredith Harper and Brad Bordessa, plus is back Molly Lewis is back! Sit tight for some deep dives into the motivations for their podcasts, nerdy gear talk, and learn how Molly and Meredith escaped COVID on the JoCo Cruise.

'Twas the night before solstice and all through the Podcast, we had Mary Agnes and Gerald Ross give us an amazing fun broadcast. Come with us as we salvage this dumpster fire of a year, with laughter, hope, and good news to all lovers of the ukulele!

It's our Kama'aina episode with Andy Andrews and Aldrine Guerrero to talk about thankfulness, maintaining your ukulele, the state of the ukulele in Hawaii, and an original song about Loco Moco performed by Aldrine, but you gotta stay till the end!

It's Halloween, a blue moon, and we've got fire in the sky! Hear what singer-songwriter Dani Joy and and ukulele instrumentalist Marlowe have to say about scary gig stories, what to do with your ukulele in lockdown, how to arrange cover songs, and mor

On the show we've got Matt Stead, Ben Hassenger, and Jeff Krebs. Come join us for a conversation about how they've been dealing the changes to their ukulele shops brought on by COVID-19.

We're taking a break from the Pandemic to talk about ukuleles and music therapy with Stephanie Epstein, president of the Ukulele Kids Club charity, and regular guest Heidi Swedberg. Come along and learn all about the healing power of the ukulele.

This could be the start of a Bromance as we welcome back Ben from Ukulele Roadtrips to have another Nice-olation podcast on ukuleles and the Pandemic. It soon goes off the rails in the first 15 minutes. You might just have to watch this one on YouTube.

On the Summer Solstice in the year of the pandemic, it's part two of our "Nice-olation" podcasts with our focus is on performers. We get great punditry from Erin and Jeff, AKA Victor and Penny, and Mandi and George, AKA Opera-lele.

We're still hunkered down and talking about virtual ukulele strum along and festivals! And we've got an all-star panel of guests with Sarah Goodroad of BUG, Mary Agnes Krell of GNUF, and Ben Hassenger, the self-proclaimed Ukulele Ambassador of Michiga