Char Mayer & James Hill || Scarlett Tide

From the soundtrack to the movie Cold Mountain, 2003. Written by Elvis Costello and Henry Burnett. Performed by James Hill & Char Mayer at the 2010 Uketoberfest in Eugene, OR. I had posted Elvis Costello doing this on uke.

James Hill & Lil' Rev || Obedience Blues

Two of the best.

Brook Adams, James Hill, Vicky Vox || What's Going On?

Great Energy!

Lil' Rev and some Ukulele Friends

James Hill, Simply, Magnificent

GGEENNIIUUSS || James & Anne || Billie Jean

Brilliant - So Different -- But oh so good! And thank you Yoga-Jenny for sharing.

Trippin Lily || High || 2010 New York Uke Fest

Tripping Lily performs this track from their new CD "The Day Everything Became Nothing" at the 2010 New York Uke Fest.

Gordon Mayer at http://www.youtube.com/user/gordonmayer has several more delicious videos of the NYUF. Here's one of my favorite players from Eugene, Oregon, Brook Adams playing "What's Going On?" and Victoria Vox on mouth trumpet.

Ontario || Ukulele Speakeasy

From the frankcasting YT description...

So you see the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF) puts on this conference every year for 800 or so musicians, and there's these official showcases in the swanky rooms, see? But then there's two hotel floors of Unofficial Showcases and the Ukulele Speakeasy is the swankiest of them all. Free liquor is served in highball glasses, no cheap gin joint here. No microphones, no amps, just the Uke, see, and the odd accompaniment. Here's the highlights of a great evening, see? Hosted by David Newland, Candace Shaw, and Andy Frank., and starring, David Celia, Joan Besen, James Hill, Anne Davison, Jaron Freeman-Fox, David Woodhead, John Zytaruk, Collette Savard, Eve Goldberg, Shelley O'Brien, David Gillis, Ariana Gillis, David Newland, The Choir Girlz and Magoo. Here's lookin at you, kids!

Cork Town o1 -- Story of why uke?

ALDRINE (and Friends!)

Aldrine has such an intimate connection with his ukulele, and they can dance!



Aldrine, James Hill, Brittni Paiva, Mike Powers



POB, Inc.

James Hill at the recent Tahoe Ukulele Festival

James is playing his Michael DaSilva tenor ukulele. His triplets are so smooth. Wish I would have been motivated or inspired musically in a school music program at and early age. Darn all of that California sunshine that called me outside and away from my violin!



Thanks POB for pointing this out!

James Hill, Melanie Doane || Lullaby of Birdland, Avalon, and CHOPSTICKS percussion

James Hill is amazing. Here's he plays with Melanie Doane, granddaughter of J. Chalmers Doane who created the Canadian school music program using the ukulele. If you haven't seen James Hill using his chopsticks and are interested in the extreme edges of ukulele versatility be sure to watch the third video.




The JAMES HILL Chopsticks Experience

(Thanks Mr. POB)

If you've never seen JAMES HILL, now's your chance

Chuck, from the Tuesday Night Bank, Uklectics (or Ukelectics, we're still discussing) sent me this link to about an hour of video of the ukulele virtuoso, James Hill. If your somewhere where you haven't had the chance to hear from him then I would say here you get a chance to get a sense of him as a person and just a taste of his great ability.

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http://play.rbn.com/?url=kennedy/kennedyg2/g2demand/07242009_1800_MSN.rm&proto=rtsp

Portland Ukulele Festival BIG BAND UKULELE

Here's a Big Band ukulele arrangement led by James Hill