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Danielle Ate The Sandwich
Danielle Ate the Sandwich is the stage name of folk singer songwriter and ukulele player, Danielle Anderson (she/her). Combining soft, lilting vocals with poignant honesty and wit, Danielle writes songs for the biggest and smallest moments of life. She first found her place at open mic nights and coffee shops in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is now based in Kansas City, MO.…
Heidi Swedberg
When she was 5 years old Heidi received her first ukulele from the Hawaiian Easter bunny while living in Kailua, HI. She has fond memories of teaching herself chords and writing songs in her room in Albuquerque NM, the place she thinks of as home. She picked the instrument up again in 1992 in Hollywood, CA while playing a singer-songwriter for a network TV pilot. Now life imitates art, and she plays music full time.
Bryan Tolentino
‘Ukulele player, Bryan Tolentino has been known for the past forty plus years as an accompanist and soloist who has performed locally and abroad with some of Hawaiʻi’s most well known and accomplished music artists. Bryan’s recorded on over 60 CD’s for other artists as well as compilations adding his unique “fairy dusting”, as he calls it.…
Victoria Vox
Victoria Vox is an award-winning, ukulele-toting songwriter and one-woman powerhouse whose musical journey began at age 10. Since embracing the ukulele in 2003 and adopting the name Victoria Vox—Latin for “voice”—she has cultivated a sound that blends chanson, jazz-infused pop, and indie folk, establishing herself as a dynamic force in the ukulele community. Her performances are a celebration of creativity and emotion, enchanting audiences with music that feels both intimate and expansive.
Daniel Ward
Daniel Ward’s polymath approach is born from his passion and appetite for the diversity of music. Born in Los Alamos, NM to a nuclear chemist/conductor, he holds degrees in classical guitar and composition from the University of New Mexico. As a performer and composer, his work spans a wide ranging gamut: flamenco guitar, heavy metal, virtuosic ukulele, classical string quartets and four-hands piano pieces, kid’s music, jazz, commercial jingles, film soundtracks… he has what musicians call “big ears”.…
Daniel Ward
Daniel Ward is an accomplished musician, composer and educator, who has become one of the country’s top clinicians and performers on the ‘ukulele circuit’. He is known for his command of Latin styles and teaches right hand techniques, adapting his style and knowledge from the classical and flamenco guitar.
Matt Weiner
Big tone and solid rhythm have made Matt Weiner one of the busiest bass players in the Northwest. Inspired by the “prebop” bass players and their music, he’s slapping out a syncopated jazz feel on one tune, on another bowing a folksy melody.
Lightnin’ Wells
Ukulele, Guitar
Mike “Lightnin'” Wells breathes new life into the vintage tunes of the 1920s and depression era America employing various appropriate stringed instruments in a dynamic style which he has developed in over 50 years of performing experience. Raised in eastern North Carolina, Wells learned to play harmonica as a young child and taught himself to play the guitar as he developed a strong interest in traditional blues and folk music.…
Larry Wyatt
Larry Wyatt is a recently retired Elementary Music Specialist from Hood River, Oregon. He is also a Level 3 certified instructor of James Hill Ukulele initiative who has taught Ukulele at the JHUI in Vancouver B.C. He wore out his parents Waylon Jennings’ records and got whupped for it, so he turned his attention to the Buck Owens catalog and wore vinyl ruts in those too.…