Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Word Association

Aaron Lee’s debut record, The Ukulele Project, orbits around a single word: ukulele. The talented uke player craftily weaves references to his beloved Hawaiian lute throughout each of the album’s 14 tunes, including a waltzing ode to fictional heroine Kaylee Ukulele, and a countrified re-designation of Arkansas as “the Ukulele State.” Clever and quirky, Lee is gaining increasing renown as a singularly entertaining performer and for proving, once and for all, that’s it’s not the size of your instrument that matters, it’s how you use it. Aaron Lee drops by Radio Bean this Saturday, February 12.