Wednesday, July 20

Lorna graciously hosted. Although we played by the light of the window at times during a storm complete with wind, rain, thunder, lightning and falling trees, we were able to play for our regular time period. Lorna, Judy, Louise, Becky, Heather and Lynn were in attendance.

As the power faded in and out, we played Tonight You Belong to Me with Becky adding the nice G GSus4 picking part from the Mike Lynch version, Silver Wings, Crying Time, Redwing, Unclouded Day (deciding now at least when Lynn is singing to use the version that starts in G), Wagon Wheel, Rain and Snow, Stand By Me (we agreed to listen to and try to learn to play the original version that starts on C in the Vancouver book rather than the Cynthia Lin version), Wildflowers, Sentimental Journey, Tennessee Waltz, Wagon Wheel, Don't Be Cruel, Making Believe, Margo's Cargo, and our secret set ending song.

Check the practice videos page in response to Becky's question about how the group chooses strum patterns. 

Lorna and Heather reported that our playing with Lana as part of the garden tour at the Bergsma's yard was well received. We played a number of outdoor/garden themed songs including Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Wildflowers, Unclouded Day, Rain and Snow and April Showers. Other favourites were Silver Wings, Margo's Cargo, Making Believe, Don't Be Cruel and Wagon Wheel,

Louise told us about one of the workshops that was held at the Folk Festival where it was recommended that players try to memorize their music for performance. This is something we can try starting with some of the songs we are pretty familiar with. Perhaps Rain and Snow would be a good candidate? Feel free to suggest others. Update:  here are some great suggestions from Louise to start: Wagon Wheel, Crying time, Red Wing, (the secret song) and maybe Wildflowers. 

Lynn reported that we have a had a request to play at the Boyne Lodge. We agreed the songs we practiced should be good choices for a performance at the Lodge. Are there others we should try? 

We will next meet at the gallery on Wednesday July 27 at 7 p.m. 

Wednesday, July 13

Updated:

Sorry for missing some posts. We took a break the week of the Folk Festival.

Louise, Lorna, Lana, Judy, Heather and newcomer from Winkler, Becky, met upstairs at the art gallery on Wednesday, July 13. 

We played Unclouded Day (starting on C), Don't Be Cruel (slowly, based on a version in a movie Lynn saw), Tonight You Belong to Me (starting on G and incorporating a G, G, G, Gsus4, G, G x 2 riff), Rain and Snow, Silver Wings, Wildflowers, Wagon Wheel, the song from Juno, Crying Time, the new secret song and perhaps a few more.

We agreed to work on Tonight You Belong to Me for next time.  The version we played is based on the version in the Bytown Ukulele Group book (see sidebar) with the riff added that you can see in this version performed by ukulele entertainer Uncle Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSqRIe-qc4

Lorna and Heather and for part of the time Lana will be playing during the Carman garden tour this Saturday. Email Heather for more information on the time and location if you would like to take part.

We will meet again next Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.