Wednesday, April 20, 2016

A reminder that we will meet on the main floor of the arts building tonight and that we should come in the front door.

Lana, Louise, Lynn and Heather played  Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. at the United Church for the Tempo Festival. They played Crying Time and Wildflowers and were asked to play Crying Time at the highlights concert on Thursday.

The Ukulele Club of Winnipeg and the Brandon Ukulele Club have been invited  to come to Carman on Sunday, June 5 to play with our school group and our group at Ryall Park. The school theatre is our backup location in case of rain. People have been invited to bring a picnic lunch, lawn chairs and their ukuleles. There is an event page link on our new Boyne River Ukulele Group Facebook page.

Lunch will be from 12 until 1 with perhaps a performance by our student group at that time as they will be there earlier for setup. The day will go until 5 p.m.

Small groups can sign up to play followed by a group strum with suggestions from the Vancouver Circle book drawn from a hat.

Welcome to Lori and Tom who joined us at our latest strum on Wednesday, April 13. In addition to playing Wildflowers and Crying Time, we played our Patsy Cline tunes, Both Sides Now, A Town This Size, Try to Remember, and more (that I can't remember).

We will next meet next on the main floor of the Golden Prairie Arts Council building on April 20 (tonight) and on the second floor as per usual on the 27th. Don't forget our Tempo fest performance on Thursday at Carman Collegiate. The time given was 7 p.m.but I will try and confirm this.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

I was finally was able to attend one of our Wednesday evening strums again.  Thanks for an enjoyable evening. We practiced Crying Time, Wildflowers and a few other songs including Farewell to Nova Scotia which we are considering for a future performance piece.

If you haven't heard, we are meeting at Louise's Friday April 8 at 7 p.m. to practice our Tempo pieces, Wildflowers and Crying Time and anything else we would like to play.

I confirmed today that we play on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. at the United Church.  Our school strum club will play at 1:30 p.m. so we will bring music stands and have permission to leave them there for the Boyne River Ukulele Group performance at 7 p.m.

There is some interest in the Ukulele Club of Winnipeg and the Brandon Ukulele Club coming to Carman on Sunday, June 5 to play with our school group and our group at Ryall Park. I have booked the school theatre under our school strum club as a backup location in case of rain. Tim, from the Ukulele Club of Winnipeg has suggested everyone bring their own lunches and that perhaps a BBQ or two could be provided for strummers' and their guests' use.  Please let me know what times and other logistics you would envision for the day. I was thinking 12 until 5 with the first hour as a meet and greet during lunch. Perhaps our school group could perform two songs during that time,

We could follow a format where each group does a performance of two songs and the rest of the time is spent strumming some pre-planned songs or random songs together, assuming everyone either brings the Vancouver Circle books or copies for everyone.

I will set up a Boyne River Ukulele Group closed Facebook page and an open Facebook event page. I will also post details once we have them on the Ukulele Club of Winnipeg page.  Please let me know your thoughts regarding timing and logistics. I was thinking we should ask participants to bring lawn chairs and that we could provide music stands from the school.

The next meetup, besides the strum on Friday April 8 at Louise's place, will be Wednesday, April 13, upstairs in the Golden Prairie Arts Council building.