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• CAPPA & DRAGO

  The Ukulele is the principle instrument used in their radio programs (“Razione K Live” and “La Fabbrica di Polli”) and for their live broadcasts (“The Country Hero”, “Razione K Live"). Gaetano Cappa plays the ukulele and sings, Marco Drago plays the 'melodica' and the kazoo.

• FABIO KORYU CALABRÒ

  This eclectic ukulele and banjo player from Bologna will astonish you with both his songs and his improvised live performances. Among his CDs are a couple of tributes to the Beatles: his “Albume Bianco” and “Sergio Pepe”, are Italian translations of “White Album” and “Sgt. Pepper’s”. To see him click here.

• ENRICO FARNEDI

  This trumpet player turned into a ukulele player is a member of Good Fellas and of Rico & The Undertakers. He has recorded with Perry Blake, Sam Paglia, Raoul Casadei, Montefiori Cocktail and a whole other long list of artists. He has also played live with Cochi and Renato, Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo and Paolo Cevoli.

• CARLO DE TOMA

  A jazz ukulele player from Bari with much instrumental experience. His last project took place in 2007 and was called The Fantastic Big Charlie And His Pharaonic One Man Band: De Toma alone who played all the various instruments at the same time. He now has a trio made up of ukulele, bass and drums.

• VERONICA SBERGIA

  She prefers to define herself as a singing ukulele player rather than a ukuleleist tout court. She has just recently published her first album "Ain't nothing in ramblin'" in which she retraces, accompanied by collection of wonderful musicians, the blues of the 20's, and enjoys singing as well as playing the kazoo, washboard and naturally the ukulele.

• MAX DE BERNARDI

  The acoustic guitar and country blues of the 20’s and 30’s form the basis his musical style. Having dipped into the ukulele by chance, now he finds himself doing little else and will play the ukulele in any number of musical forms. Max's Myspace.

• LUCA GEMMA

  This singer-songwriter, pop-rock guitarist and long time Barlumen collaborator with his jingles for "La Fabbrica di Polli", has recorded two albums, 'Saluti da Venus' and 'Tecniche di illuminazione' and has recently acquired a ukulele and is busy re-recording some of the songs from his repertoire as well as compose some new, original ones.

• SCAMPAFORCHE

  Daniele Sartirani, a.k.a. Scampaforche, is originally from Bergamo but now lives in Milan and studies in Bologna. He participated in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest ukulele band of all times in Stockholm (401 elements, August 18, 2007). Listen to his songs on his myspace page.

• MARCO BATTISTINI

  He comes from Romagna, has a warm and intriguing voice and plays the bass in Elegante Orchestra with Marco Pretolani and in the most important Italian lounge band, Montefiori Cocktail. Battistini makes his ukulele debut here with a holiday track ("quasi pop" as he defines it) which is a declaration of love to the instrument.

• DONATI & OLESEN

  This Italo-Danish duo, founded in 1981, have been bringing a very innovative form of verbal and musical comedy into Italian theatres for decades. Donati & Olesen have decided to record (specially for UKEit) some classics from their live repertoire, which had never been recorded before.

• UGO & CASIMIRO

• These twins are street performers who wander the world playing their music and telling their stories. Both from Piedmont (although Ugo lives in Tuscany), they play fascinating instruments such as the saw, the "ranofono" and the "nose flute".

• LORENZO COLELLA

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  This guitarist from Palermo who graduated at the conservatory, has played in both classical and jazz ensembles all over Italy and France (where he lived). He has since taken up the ukulele and has only just started composing instrumental tracks.

• JONTOM

• A multi talented artist and producer from Rome with a mania for recording every instrument possible and then spending hours carefully arranging them into the right mix. He's been in love with his ukulele for a few years now but he recently popped the question and seems to have honourable intentions. To see him live follow his myspace page.

• ADRIANO BONO

• After spending a whole life playing all possible instruments, Adriano discovered the ukulele and saw the light! He's a true uke-evangelist and plays in two ska-reggae-dub bands called Radici nel cemento and Tribù acustica. He runs a blog totally dedicated to the ukulele.