SIX-time Grammy award-winning ukulele player Daniel Ho will perform at the National Folk Festival.
The Hawaiian-born musician, producer, composer and song writer has led an impressive career, winning the Grammy for Best Hawaiian Music Album six years in a row.
At the National Folk Festival he’ll perform and hold free workshops in the ukulele; what he describes as the “easiest instrument in the world to play”. He’ll also use the festival to release his new, and still unnamed, vocal album that he says has a contemporary acoustic sound, with elements of jazz, classical, folk and pop.
“The orchestration is piano based, with drums, slack-key guitar and ukulele. The songs are about life in Hawaii and personal experiences,” he says.
“It’s sort of a culmination of everything I’ve done to date.”
Daniel arrives in Australia in April after touring Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. After the National Folk Festival, he’ll go on to tour Thailand, Kuala Lumpur and Korea.
National Folk Festival, April 5-9 at Exhibition Park. More information at http://www.folkfestival.org.
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