Our prize drawing at the festival helps defray the costs of the event. We’ll post prizes here as they come in! Your purchase helps support the cost of running the festival and our community outreach programs. Here you can see the prizes attendees won at our 2025 festival. Thank you to our generous donors!

The Official 2025 Las Cruces UkeFest Custom Ukulele

Every year we have featured a custom ukulele, built by bob Hull and painted by Marie Hughey. Fitting with this year’s theme is this beautiful ukulele covered with desert blooms. Strings, tuners, and more coming soon!

Ohana TK-215G

Ohana has generously donated this beautiful TK-215G Solid Mango Tenor with Comfort Edge [NEW for 2025]. It has Worth Brown strings and includes an Ohana UB-27BK Padded Gig Bag.
Total retail value approx. $475

KA-UNITY-C

Our friends at Kala donated this lovely KA-Unity-C ukulele for our drawing. The Voyage Collection was created in collaboration with Maori cultural artist Sam Mangakahia. The artwork is laser etched on mahogany and each ukulele comes with a personalized Voyage Collection gig bag and story card hang tag telling the unique message of each piece of art. This design represents connection and unity.

Kala Ukulele Starter Kit

Kala has also donated the perfect beginner set, the Ukulele Starter Kit, which includes everything you need to start playing today. The lucky winner will receive a mahogany and rosewood soprano ukulele, free online lessons, a quick-start guide, a clip-on tuner, a custom logo tote bag, and more.

Andele! Restaurant Salsa Bar to Go

You can’t visit New Mexico and not try some delicious, locally made salsa! This gift pack of Andele Restaurant salsas made by Ol’ Gringo Salsa Company is just the thing!

New Mexico Gift Basket

Las Cruces Ukes members Marie and Ginny have collaborated to create a one-of-a-kind New Mexico gift basket for a lucky winner! It includes locally produced tasty treats like pecans, praline pecans, pistachios, salsas, wine, and honey, plus a beautiful ukulele-themed fiber arts wall hanging created by Marie and four napkins hand-made by Ginny. Don’t miss your chance to win this prize!

UKULELE-O Game By Abby Lyons

Introducing the physical ukulele-themed game, UKULELE-O!, created by Abby Lyons. This game is fun and educational, perfect for students and ukulele-enthusiasts who want to learn more about the ukulele in an enjoyable way!

UKULELE-O! is played like classic bingo with ukulele pictures. The purpose of this game is to have fun while learning about the ukulele. The images depict ukulele terminology, anatomy, cultural significance, history, popular songs, famous players, shapes and sizes, and more. Inside the box are twenty unique playing cards, bingo chips, calling cards, and a rulebook.

This game was created by Abby Lyons for her ukulele classes at Old Town School of Folk Music. The kids enjoyed it so much that she created a physical game so more people could play it. Each picture was drawn by hand, each card was cut with a paper cutter and laminated with an iron, and each box label was printed and glued on by hand. The creation of this game was a labor of love! Abby will also be offering the game for sale at the festival.

Red or Green Gift Basket

Las Cruces Ukes member Carol curated this delicious basket for the prize drawing. It includes a heart dish from Nambé, two Kei and Molly towels, two Swedish dish clothes, tortilla coasters, pecan halves, red and green chile pecan halves, dark chocolate-covered pecans, local honey, El Patio salsa, Hatch chopped chiles, and chiles in diced tomatoes for queso, plus a New Mexico postcard.

Stained Glass — Two Drawings

Las Cruces Ukes member Jo Hine is a stained glass artist who created two prizes for us this year, both with beach themes. There will be two drawings for these lovely custom prizes.

Roadrunner Painting by Kay Gross

Local artist and Las Cruces Ukes member Kay Gross has donated two paintings of Greater Roadrunners, New Mexico’s state bird. Each piece is framed and valued at more than $100. We’ll draw for these two pieces separately.

Handmade Basket with Goodies

Las Cruces Ukes member J.C. handcrafted this basket and filled it with some goodies, like a set of stone coasters designed by a local artist with a street map of Las Cruces, a jar of Hatch green chile salsa, a set of concert ukulele strings, and a small metal box decorated with the New Mexico flag design. It also has a small felted ukulele crafted by Kahuna Grande Cheryl.