who's who

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Tennessee

Lisa Webb is a multi-instrumentalist and jazz vocalist.  She studied music growing up in St. Louis and earned a Master’s in Composition from North Texas State University.  She has been fortunate to have performed and appeared with the LA Jazz Choir, Steve Allen, Bob Hope,  Glen Campbell, The Romeo Sisters, Leslie Lewis and recorded on the Concord Jazz label with Rosemary Clooney.

After making Nashville her permanent home she has continued her career as a professional musician and songwriter and happily added the ukulele to her list of instruments!  Her first ukulele recording UKE HAPPY has helped spread a little joy around to a pandemic world. 

Currently Lisa is honored to be an OHANA artist and is working on a new recording!

Lisa was a big part of the 2022 ukulele festival in Gaithersburg. She taught many workshops which were well received by the attendees. Her performance on Saturday evening with Bob Tigert was awesome, performing originals and covers. We are thrilled to have her back for the 2023 festival!

Alabama

Professional Ukulele FUNsician from Huntsville, Alabama.

Kirk is asked to be at many ukulele festivals as a teacher and performer. In May of 2022, he helped lead the Alabama Ukulele Festival.

Brazil

Aline was one of our favorite artists to have on our Performers Showcase during the pandemic. She was also a wonderful teacher and workshop instructor, always producing very professional notes for her workshops.

She has been a student of Vinicius Vivas, who was a big part of the 2022 ukulele festival. She has also been a featured artist for the 2021 online Strathmore Ukulele Festival.

Australia/California

From the Kanile'a website: Chrissy is an international performer who has played venues from Hollywood Boulevard to Broadway in Nashville, headlined the Melbourne Ukulele Festival in 2020, and performed at the Gaithersburg Ukulele Festival in Maryland in 2022.  She has scored the music for two feature films Highest Point (with Bernard De La Cour) and With Flying Colours (with Liam Fox O’Brien).

She is also passionate about teaching songwriting and running online classes.

Chrissy was a big part of the 2022 ukulele festival in Gaithersburg. She taught many workshops which were well received by the attendees. Her performance on Friday evening was full of energy, performing originals and covers. She also did a wonderful job as an emcee during the Saturday Evening Concert. We are thrilled to have her back for the 2023 festival!

Austria

Juliana (Steiger) taught herself to play guitar at the age of ten to play at campfires for her girl scouts. She fell in love with the ukulele when she first borrowed it from a friend. It is a much friendlier instrument and uke players are less strict. She hates that the guitar has a lot of baggage ... the uke is just sweet and forgiving.  

Tina (Niederpold) had her first glorious stage performance in a Nativity play in Kindergarten. Unfortunately she sang so quietly not even mice could hear her. Since then she practiced in various church and gospel choirs and her voice reached humanly audible levels. She tried out various instruments in her life and finally fell in love with the ukulele in spring 2018.

Texas

Kevin Carroll is a certified State of Texas Elementary Educator, who instructs at ukulele workshops internationally and teaches both private and group music lessons to all ages and levels in Austin, TX .  Kevin is also a performing and recording artist in his own right. He has launched a  ukulele-based music education company called edUKEcation.com which brings lessons and instruments to schools, youth groups and other ukulele communities.  Equally passionate about music, education and ukulele, Kevin seeks to inspire and empower students to exercise their birthright of making music.  Kevin has completed three years of course study in the James Hill Ukulele Initiative Teacher Certification Program and has been hired as an instructor for the program in Vancouver and Toronto.

 Italy

...composer, ukulelist and music theorist, is a tenured professor of Music Theory, Solfège and Music Perception and head of research at the Conservatory “Antonio Vivaldi” of Alessandria, where he also teaches the first Italian ukulele university class, teaches Composition at the bachelors of the Conservatory of Lugano (Swiss Confederation), and is an academic member of the Istituto di Studi Superiori dell’Insubria “Gerolamo Cardano”. He is the research coordinator of ANDA – Associazione Nazionale Docenti AFAM. He taught the seminar Quantitative Methods for Art at The University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia, an Italian Public Institution devoted to research and higher education. He holds a BM, a MM and a PgD in Composition, a BS and a MS in Mathematics and a MM in Classical Guitar. He received his Ph.D in music composition from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn. His theoretical research focuses on mathematically informed aesthetic theories of music composition, mathematical music theory and its application to composition and he devoted himself with special interest to soundtracks for interactive media, algorithmic music and non linear composition systems. He has given several lectures on these topics at many universities and conservatories including Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University (USA), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (MX), Open University (UK), Lithuanian Union of Composers (LT), Politecnico di Milano (IT), etc. 

Northern Virginia

SINGER. SONGWRITER. UKULELIST.

Louisa is a regular teacher/performer at ukulele festivals and has taken part in the Strathmore Uke and Guitar Summit, as well as the Charm City Ukulele Festival.

We are thrilled to have Louisa Hall join Gaithersburg UkeFest on Saturday to teach a couple of Songwriting workshops and will also perform during the Saturday Evening Concert with Annie Nardolilli, as the other half of the Griefcat duo.

Germany

Brazil

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England

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Finland

Wales

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