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CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: hwnmusiclives@gmail.com
Telephone: 609-477-2629
BIOGRAPHY (Short)
Bill Wynne has spent the last 50 years honing his craft with the ukulele. The consummate chord melody fingerstyle ukulele expert, Wynne explores the boundaries of the instrument by performing not only Hawaiian, but also jazz, classical, pop, the Great American Songbook, and even Broadway. But he specializes in the music and culture of Hawaii which he has shared with audiences from Carnegie Hall to the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki. For his efforts Wynne was honored by being named a Sponsored Artist by Kanile’a Ukuleles.
BIOGRAPHY (Long)
For 50 years, Philadelphia native Bill Wynne has shared the music and culture of Hawaii with audiences from Carnegie Hall to the Monarch Room of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki. An expert in slack key guitar, steel guitar, and ukulele, Wynne is best known for his exceptional skill in the traditional Hawaiian art of falsetto singing for which he was awarded first prize – a Hula Records recording contract – in the 2005 Aloha Festivals Falsetto Contest. Wynne learned practically everything he knows about Hawaiian music through the careful study of recordings – a collecting frenzy which has a resulted in an enviable library of more than 25,000 rare Hawaiian music recordings which he now shares via his 24-hour-a-day internet-based radio station, Ho`olohe Hou Radio (www.hoolohehou.com). Wynne has twice hosted his own TV specials from Honolulu as part of the Pakele Live series and appeared more than 20 times at the New York Botanical Gardens as part of its “Visions of Hawaii” exhibit. The consummate chord melody fingerstyle ukulele expert, Wynne explores the boundaries of the instrument by performing not only Hawaiian, but also jazz, classical, pop, the Great American Songbook, and even Broadway. For his efforts Wynne was recently honored by being named a Sponsored Artist by Kanile’a Ukuleles.
AUDIO
In October 2022, Bill Wynne released not one, but two CDs of his ukulele and vocals on the same day. Click below to hear samples from these albums. Stardust and Alone Again (Naturally) are available now at www.hoolohehou.co.
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VIDEO
Below are a few video examples of Bill Wynne’s solo ukulele playing. To see and hear Wynne’s prowess with steel guitar or slack key guitar or his award-winning falsetto vocals, visit elsewhere on this site or YouTube.
PHOTOS
