After an awesome first seminar at Pacific Arts Dance Studio (www.pacificartsds.com) in San Diego, California, Aldrine took a quick break before heading up the next seminar for a little LIVE Uke Got Mail-sesh.

The energy in San Diego was amazing and the people at the Pacfic Arts seminars filled up the room with their sometimes serious and sometimes hilarious questions, while Aldrine and the UU crew tried their best to keep up. Check out some clips of their inquiries and if you’ve got a puzzling Q of your own, shoot us an email at ASKALDRINE(at)GMAIL.COM, and we’ll try our best to A it for you.

Thanks to everyone who made it out to the seminars and shows in San Diego - you definitely made us feel warm and fuzzy inside and we can’t wait for the next time we can get back out there. Thank you nui loa, and mahalo very much!

-UU Staff

*AND* if you wouldn’t mind winning yourself a FREE UKULELE(!), remember to check out our Give-Away Contest for the month of September!!

On the first day of our California Tour (waaay back in July 2008) the die-hard UU fam that stuck around after the performance at DaSilva Ukulele Co. in Berkeley, CA became the instant audience for the very first LIVE Uke Got Mail!

We asked anyone who wanted to come up on stage and ask a question to do so, and the night ended with a lot of laughs, some intimate questioning, and deep pondering about life and the ukulele. To those of you who came out to see us in Berkeley - we thank you from the bottom-most depths of our uke-loving hearts for showing up and being part of it all. And for all the people who missed the show, or at least the last part of it, here are a string of snippits from the very first Live UGM, so you can be part of it, too.

Thanks again, everyone. Keep an eye out for more new videos form the tour, comin’ up!

Aloha,
-UU Staff

*AND* Don’t miss your chance to win a FREE Kamoa Pineapple Ukulele that we’re giving away this month! Check out how to enter yourself HERE. Good Luck!

Alright all you happy, smilling ukulele players of the Underground! Here we go again with another spectacular UKULELE GIVE-AWAY!

This time what’s up for grabs is a NEW Kamoa Pineapple Soprano Ukulele! Yay!

As you know, we’ve been working fast and furiously to try and get our Official UU Store up and running so that UU merch may be more efficiently distributed to the masses. You can help us AND enter yourself to win the Kamoa Pineapple Soprano by sending in your ideas for the next UU T-SHIRT!

So send your most creative, funny, beautiful, outrageous, simple, or clever T-shirt designs to: ukuleleunderground(at)gmail.com
with the words “T-Shirt Contest” in the subject line.

Designs can be hand drawn, digitally drawn, or they can even just be slogans or favorite UU phrases. Just be as specific as possible about what you want your shirt design to look like - your design just might end up being the next official Ukulele Underground T-shirt!

Be sure to send in your designs by September 30th 2008!

More questions about the contest? Check out the Forum post, and ask away!

Good luck to all the contestants!!
Aloha,

-UU Staff

Since the dawn of the Underground, UUers the world over have been working ’round-the-clock, in a concerted effort to completely transform the universal opinion of what an “ukulele song” should sound like.

We’re blasting “Tiny Bubbles” right out of the water.

So when it was suggested that there should be a new Uke Lesson for the unbelievably epic hit, “Billie Jean” (by the one and only King of Pop, Mr. Michael Jackson), we were all like, “Why the heck not?”

So here it is - simple, straightforward, and a hoot to boot - we hope not to offend anyone who loves this song, and hope beyond hope that you enjoy playing it! Take a little time, check out the lesson, master it, and share with all of your amigos here in the Underground. And, as always, if you’ve got questions, check out the Forum for help and advice (about pretty much anything).

Alohas,
-UU Staff

Ooh, One more thing! Don’t forget to check back reeely soon for details on this month’s UKULELE GIVE-AWAY CONTEST!!