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Happy Craft Rock Friday , everyone. We're fully into Fall now, when it's dark and cold in the mornings and it's pretty hard to get out of bed and get yourself to work. So today, we're going to warm up with a little Craft Rock featuring plasticine narwhal and unicorn who fall in love... Matt Griffo - "One Love" Are you smiling yet? Maybe just a little? Now really get your day going with the rest of  Uke Hunt 's round ups of ukulele videos of the year so far: do yourself a ukulele-flavoured favour and click through to see both Part One and Part Two . This video for Keston Cobblers Club's "You Go" is particularly lo-fi fabulous.

Hello, July! It's finally full-on SUMMER ( please don't let me down now, Vancouver weather! ) and it's an extra-long long-weekend for many ( Happy Canada Day and Fourth of July! )... so today, Craft Rock Friday comes with an extra helping of sunshine. And I know just the girl for that. Sophie Madeleine is completely and utterly charming. Her voice is lovely, her lyrics are brilliant... and did I mention that she plays the ukulele?! Sophie has the perfect song for Craft Rock Friday: "The Knitting Song" Lovely, right? Have a listen to this one -- "Take Your Love With Me" (aka "The Ukulele Song") Sophie also plays with a partner as Rocky and Balls . Here's their song, "Love Cake" OK, a couple more! Just to carry you through the long weekend. :) Rocky and Balls perform "I Heart You Online" Sophie Madeleine and The Sailor Jerrys' cover of "Goody Goody" (with kazoos!)

It's no secret that I have a soft spot for the ukulele. It's small, it's cute, it's Hawaiian. What's not to love? It'd be harder to make the uke any cuter. OK, maybe if the ukuleles were miniature and being played by tiny amigurumi animals... THEN the humble uke could be unequivocally declared to be the Cute Overload of musical instruments. Oh. Wait. YES. I present to you, on this fine Craft Rock Friday, the wonder that is U900 Japanese Ukulele Duo . Here's their video for "Walk Don't Run". The bear's expression is priceless. Their video for "Diamond Head" was awarded an honorable prize "Ukulele Video of the Year 2010" hosted by UkeHunt . You can read an interview with U900's human representative on UkeHunt . U900's new record, Ukulele Beatles, is available for pre-order on Amazon Japan .