She’s Daphne Roubini, the one with the Billie Holiday voice, all breath and wistfulness.  He’s Andrew Smith, the one picking ukulele behind her, alternating between strumming and single-string leads.

Coming exactly as advertised, A Ukulele Album is indeed centered around the instrument favoured by four out of five descendants of Hawaii’s King Kalākaua. But don’t expect the duo of Daphne Roubini and Andrew Smith to sound like the house band at the fabulous Royal Hawaiian on this low-key but charming full-length.