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Mighty Uke follows the history of the ukulele's popularity from its earliest days in the court of Hawaiian King David Kalākaua through the ‘lost’ years, then its first revival on early radio and the stages of vaudeville; then through several decades in the shadows again as jazz flourished until the days of early television and revival again with stars such as Arthur Godfrey.
Location of Santa Cruz County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Cruz County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
Elihu Anthony, businessman during the Gold Rush-era and a founding father of the city of Santa Cruz; John Battendieri, businessman, founder Santa Cruz Organic [4] James H. Clark, entrepreneur and computer scientist; Julia Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite [5] Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix; Philippe Kahn, creator of the camera-phone ...
The ukulele was popularized for a stateside audience during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, held from spring to autumn of 1915 in San Francisco. [19] The Hawaiian Pavilion featured a guitar and ukulele ensemble, George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet, [20] along with ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae. [21]
Roy Sakuma (born Jan 22, 1947) is a ukulele teacher, credited for sparking new generations of ukulele players and virtuosos like Jake Shimabukuro who got his start as a young student at Roy Sakuma Studios.
KZSC (88.1 FM) is a college radio station broadcasting from the campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California.It is a student run, community, non-commercial college radio station that serves as a training ground for UCSC students interested in broadcasting, media promotions, music, and journalism, as well as an outlet for many members of the Santa Cruz community.
The boardwalk extends along the coast of the Monterey Bay, from just east of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf to the mouth of the San Lorenzo River.At the western edge of the park lies a large building originally known as The Plunge, now Neptune's Kingdom, a pirate-themed recreation center which contains a video arcade and an indoor miniature golf course.
UC Santa Cruz joined the NCAA in September 1980 after years of playing in unofficial club competition. In 2016, due to mounting debt in the funding of the athletic program, the university polled its students on whether or not they would approve an increase in student fees which would be necessary to maintain the athletic program.