Events 2019 and earlier

Less is more. Keep it simple. Prior to 2020, I have been actively involved in the following events.

Sunday December 8th, 2019 @ 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Holiday concert with piano and ukulele
Standish Village

Tuesday December 3rd, 2019 @10:30 – 11:30 AM
Piano entertainment
Standish Village


Saturday 30th November 2019
Annual Holiday Stroll in Historic Lower Mills

Sunday November 10, 2019 @ 10 – 11:30 AM
Learn to Uke! a.k.a. Crash course for Complete Beginners

Wednesday November 6, 2019 @ 6 – 7:30 PM
Learn to Uke! a.k.a. Crash course for Complete Beginners


Sunday 20th October 2019 @ 2 PM
Piano Concert
Standish Village

Tuesdays from 15th October 2019
Ukulele courses at Milton Adult Education
Milton High School


Thursdays from 26th September 2019
4:30 – 5:45 pm Beginning Ukulele ages 10 – 15
6:00 – 7:00 pm Ukulele Strum Techniques
7:00 – 8:00 PM Fingerstyle Ukulele
8:00 – 9:00 pm Beginning Ukulele for Adults
Arlington Adult Education (Arlington High School)

Wednesdays from 25th September 2019
4:00 – 5:00 pm Beginner Ukulele Course for Kids
7:30 – 9:30 pm Wishful Wednesday Workshops for Nonbeginners in Ukulele
Walter Baker Building, Boston, MA

Mondays from 23rd September 2019
5:30 – 7:30 pm Ukulele Strum Techniques
7:45 – 9:45 pm Fingerstyle Ukulele at CCAE
Cambridge Center for Adult Education

Saturday 21st September 2019
Casco Bay Ukulele Festival, Portland Maine

Milton Porchfest  3:00 pm Choco-leles

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Sunday 8th September 2019 @ 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Solo piano concert: smooth, soothing classics from Pachelbel to Chopin
Standish Village


18 – 21 July 2019
Ukulele Teacher Summit
Austin, Texas

14 – 21 July 2019
Mountain Ukulele at WFC
White Mountains, New Hampshire

Saturday 13th July 2019
Acoustic Stage (guitar & ukulele) at JP Porchfest
Jamaica Plain, MA

Wednesday 10th July 2019
Ukulele Singalong
Goodbye Party at Adams St Branch of Boston Public Library

Tuesday 9th July 2019 @ 6:30 PM
7th and final session of Ruby Tuesday Ukulele Course

Sunday 7th July 2019 @10 AM
Boston Guitar Orchestra Rehearsal
Walter Baker Building


24 – 30 June 2019
Boston Guitar Festival
New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

Monday 24th June 2019
Solstice Ukulele Concert
Standish Village

Friday 21st June 2019
MAKE MUSIC BOSTON
Eustis Estates, Milton, MA

Saturday 8th June 2019 @ 3 PM
Brookline Porchfest
Boston, MA

Saturday 1st June 2019
Belfast Ukulele Festival 2019
Belfast, Maine


Ruby Tuesdays 21st May – 9th July 2019
6:30 – 8:00 pm Advanced Beginner Ukulele Course
8:00 – 9:00 pm Hone Your Skills in Historic Lower Mills
Walter Baker Building, Boston

Thursday 16th May 2019 @1 PM
Memory Cafe (ukulele)
Milton Council on Aging

Sunday 12th May 2019 @2 – 3 PM
Mother’s Day Concert (piano)
Standish Village

Saturdays 11 May – 29 June, 2019
Ukulele for Beginners 1:00 – 2:30 pmUkulele for Non-Beginners 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Sunday 5th May 2019
Somerlele (ukulele festival)
Somerville, MA

Saturday 4th May 2019
Annual Ukulele Melee
Hamilton, MA


Sunday 28th April 2019 @3 – 5 PM
Ukulele Pluck Ensemble Rehearsal

Saturdays 27th April – 13th July 2019 (10 x 1 hour workshops)
Beginning Ukulele for Kids 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Walter Baker Building, Boston, MA

Friday 26th April 2019 @ 7:30 PM
BGO Concert before Rene Izquierdo
First Lutheran Church, Boston, MA

Wednesdays 7 PM
Choco-lele Rehearsal

Tuesday 23rd April 2019 @7:30 PM
BGO sectional rehearsal

Sunday 7th April 2019 @ 1 – 3 pm
The Choco-leles at Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Forbes House Museum, Milton, MA

Fri April 5th – Sunday April 7th, 2019
BGO Concert at 
URI Guitar Festival
Kingston, Rhode Island

Thursdays 4th April – 6th June 2019 (8 sessions)
Play Ukulele 6:00 – 7:15 PM
Continuing Ukulele 7:30 – 8:45 PM
Arlington Community Education


Sat 23rd March & Sun 24th March 2019
New England Guitar Ensemble Festival (NEGEF) with Pavel Steidl
Longy School of Music

Saturday 23rd March 2019
Latin America Fest 2019
Newton, MA

Thursday 14th March 2019 @ 5:30 pm
Fun with Ukulele: Irish Songs for St Patrick’s Day
Lower Mills Branch of Boston Public Library

Mondays 11th March – 13th May 2019 (9 sessions)
Ukulele for Complete Beginners 6:00 – 7:15 PM
Ukulele for Non-beginners/Busy Adult 7:15 – 8:45 PM
Milton Adult Education

Sunday 10th March 2019
African Music for Guitar & Ukulele Workshop
Walter Baker Building, Boston, MA


Saturday February 23rd to March 30th, 2019 (5 sessions)
Ukulele Course for Complete Beginners
Walter Baker Building, Boston, MA

Thursday 14th February 2019 @ 5:30 PM
Fun with Ukulele: Love Songs from Movies
Lower Mills Branch of Boston Public Library

Friday 8th February 2019 @ 7:30 PM
Concert: Boston Guitar Orchestra (BGO) before The Great Necks
First Lutheran Church, Boston

Sunday 3rd February 2019
Chinese New Year lunch banquet after BGO rehearsal
Taipei Cuisine Restaurant in Quincy, MA

Saturday 2nd February 2019
World Ukulele Day

Crash Course for Complete Beginners 11:00 – 12:30 PM
Ukulele Pluck Workshop 1:00 – 2:30 PM
Ukulele for Adult Beginners 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Walter Baker Building, Boston


Thursday 31st January 2019 @ 6:30 PM
First anniversary of ukulele club at Historic Lower Mills

Thursday 10th January 2019 @ 5:30 PM
Fun with Ukulele: Three Chord Songs
Lower Mills Branch of Boston Public Library

Saturdays 5th January – 23 February 2019 (7 sessions)
Ukulele for Adult Beginners 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Walter Baker Building, Boston, MA

Wednesday 2nd January 2019 UKULELE PARTY


Sunday 16th December 2018 Boston Guitar Orchestra Party

Friday 14th December 2018
Kids Ukulele Class Recital
Adams St. Branch of Boston Public Library
Dorchester, MA

Saturday 8th December 2018
Ukulele Crash Course for Complete Beginners

Thursday 6th December 2018 from 6 to 7:30 PM
Piano concert
Standish Village, Boston, MA

Sunday 2nd December 2018
Ukulele STRUM Workshop


Sunday 25th November 2018 from 3 to 4 PM
Boston Guitar Orchestra concert
Hingham Public Library
Hingham, Massachusetts

Saturday 24th November 2018 from 4:30 – 7:30 PM
Annual Holiday Stroll in Lower Mills
Ukulele Singalong and more
Walter Baker Building, Dorchester, MA

3rd – 4th November 2018
Introducing ukulele clubs in Massachusetts
Blue Hills Fall Foliage at Eustis Estate
Milton, MA

Thursday 1st November 2018
Ukulele group rehearsal
Eustis Estate, Milton, MA


Friday 19th October – 7 December 2018
FREE Beginning Ukulele Course for Kids aged 8 to 12
Adams Street Branch of Boston Public Library, Dorchester, MA

Wednesday 17 October 2018 5:30 – 6:45 PM
Beginner Ukulele Workout
Walter Baker Artist Lofts Common Room
Near Milton T Station

Monday October 8, 2018
Ukulele Crash Course for Complete Beginners
Strum Workshop, Ealing, London

Monday October 1, 2018
Dissertation due by noon GMT


Sunday 30 September 2018
Hanwell Ukulele Group performance at
Ealing Half Marathon, London

Thursday July 26, 2018
6th essay due by noon GMT

June 25 – July 1, 2018
Boston Guitar Festival

Thursday June 21, 2018
5th essay due by noon GMT

Wednesday June 20, 2018
Summer Solstice Singalong at Sunset with Ukulele
Standish Village, Historic Lower Mills
Boston, MA

June 18 – 23, 2018
Guitar Foundation of America Convention
Louisville, Kentucky

Saturday June 16, 2018 @ 9:30 – 10:30 PM
Teenage Ukulele and Guitar Concert

Wednesday June 13th, 2018
Sunset Singalong

Tuesday June 12, 2018
HUG Fifth Anniversary

Saturday June 9, 2018 all day
Study Day, Milton Keynes

Wed June 6, 2018
Eighties Extravaganza

Sunday June 3, 2018
1920’s Strum in the Park


Wed May 30, 2018
Ukulele Crash Course for Beginners
Three Chord Songs: C or C7, F, G or G7

Wednesday May 23, 2018
No Theme Night ukulele jam

May 20, 2018 NEC Graduation Ceremony

Thursday May 17, 2018
The Mighty Uke movie & uke jam afterwards

Thursday May 17, 2018
4th essay due by noon GMT

Wednesday May 16, 2018
Sixties Social ukulele jam

Saturday May 12, 2018
Hanwell Hootie

Wednesday May 9, 2018
No Theme Night ukulele jam

Tuesday May 1, 2018
ABBA GOLD ukulele jam


Saturday April 28, 2018 from noon – 4:30 PM
Ukulele Melee
Hamilton, MA

Friday April 27, 2018 @7:30 PM
Boston Guitar Orchestra
Jorge Caballero, artist series
First Lutheran Church, Boston

Ukulele Course for Teenagers
Eight consecutive Fridays 3:30 – 4:30 PM from April 27 – June 15
FREE, register at Adams Street Branch
Boston Public Library

Wednesday April 25, 2018 @ 7 PM
Earth Day Jam

Monday April 23, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal, Yamaha Music School, Lexington

Saturday April 21, 2018 @1 – 6 PM
Earth Day Ukulele Workshops

Wednesday April 18, 2018
Twelve Bar Blues Ukulele Jam

Sunday April 15, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal

Saturday April 14, 2018
Peter Moss all-day ukulele workshop and concerts

Wednesday April 11, 2018
Ukulele workshop & jam Easy Beatles Jam

Monday April 9, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal, Somerville Library

April 6 – 8, 2018
The Muse & the Market Place
Writing Conference, Boston


March 27 – April 5, 2018 London

Wednesday April 4, 2018
Five Years and a Wedding + 25 Ukuleles

Tuesday April 3, 2018
Last night at the Viaduct Pub

Saturday March 31, 2018
Blue Moon Ukulele Jam
London

Friday March 23, 2018
Ukulele workshop & jam Island Theme

Thursday March 22, 2018
3rd essay due by noon GMT

Wednesday March 21, 2018 @2 PM
Island Theme Concert on piano and ukulele, Brockton, MA

Tuesday March 20, 2018 @ 1 PM
Island Theme Concert on piano and ukulele, South Boston

March 17-18, 2018
New England Guitar Ensembles Festival (NEGEF)

Wednesday March 14, 2018
Ukulele workshop & jam Two-Chord Songs

Monday March 12, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal, NEC

Sunday March 11, 2018 @10 AM – 1 PM
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal + potluck lunch
Walter Baker Artist Lofts

Saturday March 10, 2018* – pending reservations
Ukulele workshop & jam

Wednesday March 7, 2018
Ukulele workshop & jam Two Chord Songs CANCELLED DUE TO STORM

Monday March 5, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal


Wednesday February 28, 2018
Ukulele workshop & jam Oscar Winners

Monday  February 26, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal

Wednesday 21 February 21, 2018
Ukulele workshop & jam Heartbreak Hotel

Sunday February 18, 2018 @2 pm
Guitar Performance Party

Thursday February 15, 2018 @ 3 PM
Chinese New Year Concert
Standish Village, Lower Mills

Wednesday February 14, 2018
Valentine’s Heartbreak Uke Jam
Walter Baker Artist Lofts
Historic Lower Mills

Saturday February 10, 2018 @7:30 PM
Boston Guitar Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition
Zoran Dukic, Artist Series
First Lutheran Church, Boston

Wednesday February 7, 2018
6:30 pm doors open for 7 PM
Ukulele Basics for Beginners Workshop
Walter Baker Artist Lofts
Historic Lower Mills

Sunday  February 4, 2018 @10 AM – 1 PM
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal
Walter Baker Artist Lofts

Thursday February 1, 2018
Second essay due by noon GMT


Wednesday January 31, 2018
6:30 pm doors open for 7 – 9 pm
Super Blue Blood Moon (22-page PDF)
Ukulele Jam
Starting my own ukulele club

Monday January 29, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal

Monday January 22, 2018
Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsal

Tuesday January 9, 2018 @7:30 PM
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
King’s Arms, Hanwell Broadway


Thursday December 14, 2017
Nutcracker Suite Ballet
Boston Opera House

Monday December 14, 2017 @ 2 PM
Christmas Singalong
Lower Mills, Boston

December 1 – 5, 2017 Manhattan


Thursday November 30, 2017 @ 2 PM
Ukulele workshop
Lower Mills, Boston

Thursday November 25, 2017 @ 3:30 – 5 PM
Holiday Stroll
Standish Village Open House
Lower Mills, Boston

Tuesday November 21, 2017 11 AM – Noon
Ukulele sing-along
Chill on Park, Memory Cafe
Boston

November 2 – 5, 2017 The Netherlands

Friday October 27, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
George & Dragon Microbrewery
Acton Town, London

Monday October 9, 2017
Study Day, Milton Keynes

Sunday October 1, 2017 @ noon
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
Kew Market, London

September 7, 14, and 21, 2017 @ 2 PM
Ukulele Workshops
Lower Mills, Boston

September 7, 2017 @ 6 PM
Annual Outdoor Ukulele Jam at Harvard Square

September 3, 2017 @ 2 PM
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
Brentford Festival
Blondin Park, London

September 2, 2017 @ Noon
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
RSPCA Benefit Concert, Southall

August 25 – 28, 2017
Ireland Ukulele Hooley
Dublin & Dun Laoghaire

August 20, 2017
Canterbury, Kent

August 19, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
2:30 pm Whitstable Harbour
5 pm The Old Neptune Pub
Whitstable, Kent

August 7 – 12, 2017
Totleigh Barton, Devon

August 5, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
Impact Theatre Summer Showcase
Perivale, London

July 12, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
Ealing Beer Festival, London

July 11, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
The Viaduct, Hanwell

Wednesday July 5, 2017
Ukulele Club of Amsterdam

July 4 – 11, 2017
Amsterdam, Nootdorp, Den Haag, Naarden, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Bergeyk, Eindhoven
The Netherlands

Sunday July 2, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
Ealing Food & Drink Festival

Saturday July 1, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG) to the beach:
West Wittering, Bognor Regis & Chichester, U.K.

Sunday June 18, 2017
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)Lynn’s Street Party

Saturday June 17, 2017
Hanwell Carnival, London

Thursday June 15, 2017 7:30 PM [+ pre-dinner with friends]
Voices of Night and Day – pianist Nicola Meecham
The Warehouse Waterloo, London SE1 8ST
Blogposts: 

Wednesday 14 June Opera and Politics
Workshop 14.00-15.45, Studio 8
Presentations 16.00-19.00, Lecture Theatre
19:00
For the Love of DanceTrinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Faculty of Dance, Laban Building
Creekside, London SE8 3DZ

Tuesday 13 June Fourth Anniversary HUG
King’s Arms, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell
blogpost: Ukulele Clubs: sing, strum, and socialize

Tuesday June 6, 2017 7:30 pm for 8 PM
Hanwell Ukulele Group (HUG)
The Viaduct Pub, Hanwell, London

Saturday June 3, 2017 all day
Study Day, Milton Keynes, UK

Monday May 29, 2017 JFK 100 Celebration
Boston, MA

Saturday May 20, 2017 @3:30 PM GMT
Skype presentation: Pattern Recognition in Sight-Reading
Fifth Annual Conference in association with Society of Minimalist Music
University of Wolverhampton, England

Thursday May 11, 2017 @ 2 PM
Across America in Sixty Minutes Concert: from Maui to Boston
Boston, MA

Thursday May 4, 2017  @ 7 PM
Jukebox Concert
Boston, MA

Saturday April 29, 2017 @ 2 PM
Name Sake Concert
Boston, MA

Friday April 28, 2017 @ 7:30 PM
David Russell in concert & Boston Guitar Orchestra
Boston Guitar Society event
First Lutheran Church of Boston
299 Berkeley Street, Boston

Saturday April 22, 2017 @ 2 PM
Earth Day Concert
Boston, MA

Thursday April 20, 2017 evening
Ukulele Union of Boston (UUoB) 
Clement’s Photography & Design
535 Albany Street 2nd Floor, Boston

March 12, 2017 @ 3 PM
Maurice Ravel Birthday Concert, pianist Nicola Meecham
Sutton House Music Society, London

February 20, 2017 @ 12:30 PM onwards
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
Level 5 Function Room, South Bank Centre, London

January 28, 2017 Chinese New Year of the Rooster

January 19, 2017 Golden Oldies Concert, Boston

January 14, 2017 @ 10:30 AM
Thai Cooking Class with June V. Williamson, author of “Thai Food Made Easy”
Lemon and Sage Artisan Kitchens, Springville, Utah


December 12, 2016 Christmas Concert, Boston

November 30, 2016 Music Research Day, Open University

November 7 – 9, 2016 Lugano, Switzerland

November 1, 2016 London

October 28, 2016 Farewell Dinner Banquet, Mei Shi Restaurant, Utrecht

October 24, 2016 Last week in Utrecht, The Netherlands

October 13, 2016 11th Anniversary, Boston

October 10, 2016 Study Day, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.

September 1, 2016 House Sale Barbecue, Utrecht

August 13, 2016 London

August 5-6, 2016 Braunschweig, Germany

July 26, 2016 Elburg, The Netherlands

July 22, 2016 Piano Potpourri Potluck, Utrecht

July 14, 2016 Bastille Day Barbecue, Utrecht

July 6, 2016 Amsterdam

July 5, 2016 Positano

July 4, 2016 Pompei & Ravello

July 2, 2016 Ischia

June 29, 2016 Rome

June 27, 2016 Naples, Italy

June 21, 2016 Vienna, Austria

June 15, 2016 Boston 

Latest cable TV appearance
Maui College Today 30 minute episode (video)Thursday May 19, 2016 @ 7 – 8:30 PM FREE
808 Uke Jams in North Kihei – blogpost

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The Choco-leles

What do you get when you get ukulele players to play in what used to be the oldest chocolate factory in the country?

“Say chocolate. Say ukulele. Cross chocolate and ukulele and you get choco-lele.” That’s what I said to a group of seniors at my last concert when I introduced the new 2019 Choco-lele Holiday Songbook. Here is our story.

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Songs about Massachusetts and New England etc

One day I will get around to finding the song sheets and sheet music to the songs that are not linked below, for Massachusetts and New England. My ukulele club had a good run of Charlie on the MTA. August 17, 2023 is National Massachusetts Day, and because it falls on a Thursday, we are celebrating such songs in 3 Chord Thursday.

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Ukulele clubs in and around Boston, Massachusetts

The Ukulele Union of Boston (UUoB) began about nine years ago after the first ukulele course ended. The students asked, “What shall we do now?” — and one of them initiated a get together in his photo studio. The rest is history. For more information, visit Ukulele Union of Boston Meet-up.

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Ukulele Clubs in New England

New England is the northeastern part of the United States that comprises the following states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The best time to visit is autumn when the leaves turn color. I plan to add to this list of known ukulele clubs in this beautiful region.

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Previous ukulele workshops and courses

In keeping with my natural inclination to not throw anything away in case I may need it in the future, here are courses that I have given previously.

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Previous related events – ukulele

What are related events not lodged in my running list of ukulele workshops and jam sessions I organized? What someone else organized? I merely turn up? Or gather others to show up with me? What these all have in common is that they took place elsewhere and I didn’t organize them. Continue reading

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Previous ukulele workshops and sessions

Since I launched my first ukulele jam session in Boston on that fateful night of the super blue blood moon in January 2018, I have been meticulously keeping an audit trail of all the jam sessions, workshops, and other events I had organized. It’s now time to remove them from my UKULELE page and archive it in a blogpost here.

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About Anne Ku

Before 2020 rolls around, I am tidying up my website. Here is the old ABOUT page.

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Feedback, testimonials, what others said

Visit the UKULELE tab to get feedback from my students.

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