The Aurora Uke Fest ran from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at a number of locations in downtown Aurora.
First launched by Aurora Ald. Michael Saville, 6th Ward, the event continues to offer major ukulele performers, lessons and workshops, and a host of vendors offering various shapes and sizes of the instrument that was created by Portuguese immigrants who moved to Hawaii.
“I realize now that the ukulele is sort of the gateway instrument to the guitar and something that’s easy to take on a plane,” he said. “Retirement gave me the time and the money and it’s a lot of fun,” she said. “I like to play the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s music and I’m in a couple of groups myself. I wasn’t a musician before. I’d tell people to take it up and take a couple lessons at the library and give it a go.”
Michael Bruder of Wheaton came with his son Benjamin who each were carrying ukuleles and said he himself has been playing about seven years.
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