Author Archives: Sage Harrington

Moon River – that beautiful song sung by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Written by Henry Mancini. Apparently this song almost didn’t make it into the movie! Played on my old Regal tenor guitar, this instrument makes me work real hard. I recorded this for my aunt Mary who is retiring. Wish I could […]

What is happening in my country right now is so intense. I am not quite sure what to say, just that a friend of mine put it really well when she said that incidents of white racist violence cannot be compared to acts of Black protest. I’ve been listening to the House impeachment hearings most […]

Here is a bit of a look back to some of the videos—especially of the early jazz variety—I made in 2020. Plus, there are two performances hidden in there that I recorded in mid-2019 that nooooooo one has seen until now. Look out for Al Schackman in those two numbers. He’s a guitarist that played […]

What do you do in the wintery depths of a global pandemic? Well, propose a creative collaboration with a perfect stranger living over 5000 miles away across a vast and endless ocean! This is the power of the internet and of course, the magnetizing, community-building power of the ukulele and of the music of the […]

I am so excited to finally be offering ukulele tabs through my Patreon page. This video is meant to serve as a visual (and audio of course) learning aid. If you closely watch where my fingers go you can totally learn the tune just from this free video! But if seeing the tabs would be […]

A December gift for you: four new songs. They were all written around a century ago but I recorded them very recently. Hope you enjoy! <3 -s

What’ll I Do – a ukulele jazz cover of Irving Berlin’s sad and sweet breakup song. Notice that extra-special rarely performed first verse and even rarely-er ever performed second verse! I made this recording today and now my reward will be to eat ice cream for dinner. Let me know if you have played the […]

Blue Christmas! I made tabs for this today, and am offering tabs publicly for the first time, my finest moment. 💙✨ Please support me on Patreon at any level for access to the tabs. FYI 10% of Patreon earnings go to organizations that support BIPOC folx. 💙🎄✨

Yes this song and this ukulele may in fact be the same age. A perfect match! I fell in love with this song when I found a recording of Nellie McKay performing it. I’ve been working on a fairly straightforward little recording project involving some songs from around 1924 (some of you are may be […]

The Ink Spots! What a pleasure it is to listen to them. (especially when Ella Fitzgerald sits in with them, my favorite!) I love “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” — I originally learned it when I played it at a friend’s wedding — and it was so fun to revisit it […]