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.