Originally from Baltimore and now based in sunny Oakland, songbird and solo uke-slinger/guitarist, Tippy Canoe (Michele Kappel-Stone), made the switch from a 5-piece drum kit with the garage-pop princesses The Kirby Grips (Sympathy For The Record Industry), to a 4-stringed ukulele in 2003. In 2009 she upped the string count and now includes guitarist on her resume. She’s on a mission with her to bring sincere uplift in a severely down-slanted era by spreading her hook-laden pop-meets-roots mu...