My friends with the Brown Chicken Brown Cow String Band have been kind enough to not only play each of the many instruments at the shop, and give me honest critique... they also were kind enough to lay down some tracks featuring  a couple of my ukes. Many, Many Thanks to my friend Sherrie Austin of Austin Imageworks for the video and the editing.  I am indebted to all of you.

    As a footnote, the boys don't usually include ukuleles in thier repertoire... They play Fiddle, Mandolin, Banjo, Bass, Guitar, etc. To make them feel more at home, we tuned the ukes to GDAE instead of the normal Tenor tuning of GCEA, and Baritone DGBE. Some may detect the difference, but everyone will agree that these young men have a whole lot of talent. Thanks to Justin (guitar) Michael ( stand up Bass) Orion ( my wife's electric Tenor) and the multi talented Zander (Baritone) for putting thier unique spin on Willie Nelson's " All of Me". Thank you, Gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart. See you next year on Maui!

          

  Sound Bite        Having trouble making this work real slick and easy. It's available at www.vimeo.com/10040795 . Sorry for the inconvenience. If it doesn't go straight to the video, you may have to enter "Kolaka Ukuleles" into the search engine... or Austin Imageworks to see what else Sherrie has posted. We'll streamline it as soon as possible . Mahalo, Raven

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