Thanks to Jon Yamasato and the HI Sessions crew for this video.  Shot in Honolulu a few weeks ago...

We camped out for a couple of days at Tony Coleman's lakeside cabin, made maple syrup, ate pancakes and shot some video.  The result?  An "official" music video for Hand Over My Heart!  Watch it here.

My good friend Victoria Vox has taken on a gutsy new project: 52 original songs in 2012!  She needs more than talent and good luck, she needs money.  Click here to learn more about the project and to lend a hand.

Just finished a whirlwind of a two-week tour in the UK with Tony, Margaret, Anne and the Mighty Uke!  Big thanks to all the strummers, singers and unwitting strangers who joined us up and down the isles for screenings and sing-a-longs.  I hope the burgeoning ukulele fever we witnessed is a sign of things to come for GB and Scotland!

We're now in Thailand.  Chiang Mai today, Bangkok tomorrow.  We're being hosted by the incredibly generous folks at Baan Ukulele and we're definitely eating more than we should.  It's not my fault Thai food is so tasty.  I hope to post more on this amazing visit as it unfolds.

In other news, the invincible Ralph Shaw has published a the must-have-for-Christmas book of wisdom (drawing from his regular Ukulele Entertainer newsletters).  Yes, I mean "published" as in "printed the old-fashioned, curl-up-with-a-hot-cocoa-and-read-it" way!).  Click here to learn more about The Ukulele Entertainer.

Just listening to the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra's new EP "I Love You."  They're really onto something... great arrangements, song choices and not a boom-chicka strum in sight.  Really tasty.