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Ko-uta is a genre of Japanese music which developed from the 19th century. It literally means 'little song' and indeed the songs te...

In the late nineteenth century a mandolin craze swept America and Europe, leading to the formation of numerous mandolin orchestras with mai...

Posted last week on Marek Edelman and the 1943 resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Surviving this, he later took part in the following year...

It was my birthday recently. Some friends who know my penchant for small stringed instruments - I play mandolin and ukulele and also have a...

Over the Rainbow must be one of the world's most recorded songs, its popularity partly due to the utopian wish that is at its heart, a w...

It happened like this – on Valentine’s Day this year my gf gave me a ukulele for a present. I took it to work that day and in a few idle mo...

The seven songs meme is still doing the rounds - it goes like this: 'List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, ...