“What is it about guitarists?” I began. “Every guitarist can play the ukulele — BUT only if he wants to.”
There seems to be a psychological barrier. It take less than a minute to show guitarists the conversion formula to playing ukulele chords. Yet, they don’t embrace it. They prefer the guitar.
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 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
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
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.
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.
The Ukulele Union of Boston (UUoB) began in 2010 when the first ukulele course (at Cambridge Centre for Adult Education) 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. How did other clubs in New England start?
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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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 →
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.
Colin Tribe’s new book offers new possibilities for ukulele players who aspire to fingerpick their way through thirty of the most popular songs of all time. These chord melody arrangements show a variety of ways the high G ukulele can be used for instrumental solo or duet (such as chord accompaniment and melodic fingerpicking) . […]
This 31-page book of four hand piano music is sheer FUN with a capital F. The composer Heleen Verleur knows just what pianists love playing: music that is easy to read, sounds hard to play, but is so much fun that you don’t want to stop until it ends.
This 40-page book is the latest contribution to the ukulele repertoire by the UK-based ukulele and guitar composer Paul Mansell. Guitarists who play the ukulele are few and far between, for many adult learners pick up the ukulele without knowing the guitar. Yet it takes a guitarist who understands the possibilities of the re-entrant tuned […]
Introducing my group piano class online: Group Piano Class in Zoom. The first series of seven weekly one-hour class started in June 2021. The second (continuation of the first) started in October 2021 at alternating weeks, until end of December (seven sessions). The third series of 16 consecutive weeks started at the beginning of 2022. […]
