Ukulele, looping, rhythm, vocals, and enough motion to fill a much larger stage.
Small instrument. Large disturbance.
A real show for people who came to have a good time.
Ukulele Russ turns four strings into a full-room event: music, comedy, storytelling, audience ideas, and songs that may not have existed five minutes earlier.
He can command a listening room, wake up a festival, charm a private party, or turn your venue's drink special into the chorus everyone remembers tomorrow.
The act is flexible because the crowd matters. There is no canned speech between songs and no identical set delivered to every room. Russ listens, reacts, and builds the night around the people who actually showed up.
What you are booking
Part concert. Part comedy. Part “did he just make that up?”
Yes. He probably did.
The audience is invited into the night without being trapped in a painful corporate exercise.
Quirky originals and parodies from a brain steeped in Alaska, road miles, and popular culture.
Festivals, breweries, theaters, private events, house concerts, roadhouses, and stranger places.
Facebook fan favorites
Press play. Things get weird quickly.
A few of the videos people have watched, shared, argued about, and voluntarily returned to. Each card opens the original video on Facebook.
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Popular parodyHow Eddie Vedder Sounds to Non-Pearl Jam FansActual, entirely serious, definitely undoctored audio.
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Alaska educational programmingHow to Pet a MooseAn instructional video that should not be treated as instruction.
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Four-string violenceIncoming Rock Ukulele SoloFor anyone still convinced the instrument is only for gentle beach songs.
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Looper performanceYou Can't Do That on UkuleleA practical demonstration of why that sentence is usually wrong.
Proof of life
Stages, studios, roadhouses, and rooms full of willing participants.
The instrument travels light. The stories do not.
Built on road miles
Alaska roots. Anywhere-you'll-have-him ambitions.
Russ has carried this strange little show into festivals, breweries, theaters, parties, radio studios, and rooms across the map. If there is a crowd ready to laugh, sing, and participate in something memorable, the act fits.