The ukulele, an instrument once ridiculed for its ties to vaudeville acts and Hawaiian vacations, has gone in and out of favor over its roughly 140-year history. Its recent popularity can be traced ...

Those who bore witness to the ukulele’s prevalence in pop culture in the early aughts through 2015 or so — let’s call it “the great millennial ukulele craze” — understand what four strings and a twee ...

George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doesn’t do anything all that complicated when it appears on stage. Dressed in formal attire — black tie for men, evening dresses for women — ...

If you’ve never heard Tom Petty or the theme from the movie “Shaft” played on the ukulele, you’ll get your chance this week. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain was started in the 1980s in part ...