We're Crazy for Ukes!

It's not even December yet, but what to our wondering eyes appear this morning in the paper but a cover story in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine on our raison d'être, and featuring a sultry shot of local ukulele siren Tippy Canoe.

Author Ian Lendler does a superb job of connecting the Bay Area uke scene with the history of the jumping flea, and Chris Stewart's photos give an nice sense of our diverse community. (View Chris's photos here.)

Read The Return of the Jumping Fleas! Or how we learned to stop worrying and love the ukulele

Here are some links to the people and groups mentioned in Ian's article:

• Mike DaSilva (and the Berkeley Ukulele Club)
  
• Tippy Canoe
• Hiram Bell
• Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
• George Harrison
• Uni and Her Ukulele
• John King
• Finally, a link to Ukulelia's own essay on the play the rocked the country, Bird of Paradise
  

And by the way, Tippy's uke was made by another Berkeley luthier, Peter Hurney, who made Uni's as well. (And one for Craig Robertson, but oddly, not one for me...)