January 25, 2017

Present were:  Ian, Linda, June, Judy, Cathie, Louise, Lynn, and Lana.

We played Love Me Tender in three ways; starting with an easy version with just the three chords.  The next time we introduced the C maj7 and the sus chords.  Louise and Lana played the chord melody.  We think that this could be a performance piece with everyone practicing the version they wish.  Then we'll put it all together.  We also played a lot of other tunes-- introducing the "on deck song" to speed things up.

Songs included: Wagon Wheel, In the Jailhouse Now, Let it Be, Red Wing, Ramblin' Rose, January Wedding, Making Believe, You Don't Know Me, Suitcase in my Hand,, Grow Old with You and a few others

- Lana

Sounds like a good night. I will try and remember to have some song selections at the ready for next time. Also, remember to bring your items for our "feast" next Wednesday. There will be more details via email.

- Heather

January 18, 2017

Lana, Lynn, Lorna, Heather, Cathie, Judy, June, Louise, Tom and Lori attended.

We sang and played Wagon Wheel, This World is Not My Home, Tonight You Belong to Me, I'll Give You My Heart Valentine, I Wanna Grow Old With You, Black Velvet Band, Song For A Winter's Night (we are revising the chords and will re-send), Tonight You Belong To Me, I'll See You in my Dreams, Four Strong Winds, Lie Down Beside Me, Blue Moon from the Vancouver Circle book, Blue Hawaii (one note higher and play up until the last line, go back and repeat the last part and then play until the end adding the last line), Sonny's Dream (we will send out a new version that doesn't change key for the last part), and our signature set-ending song.

Next Wednesday we will meet again at the gallery but upstairs.

Hope to see you then :)

January 11, 2017

Lynn, Louise, Kim, Cathie, Judy, Lana and Karen braved the cold o to meet at the Station and strum.

Our list of songs included: We'll Sing in the Sunshine, Song for a Winters Night, Sonny's Dream, I'll See You in my Dreams, Imagine, Silver Wings, Angeline the Baker, Passing Through, Farewell to Nova Scotia, Black Velvet Band, Wagon Wheel, January Wedding (especially significant since it is Louise and Ted's anniversary...), Don't be Cruel, Can't Always get what you Want, Dance Me to the end of Love and , of course, our signature ending song.

- Lana

I have posted the new songs to our list of Boyne River Ukulele Group Songsheets on the blog link.

Sorry to have missed playing all the new songs with you. Hope to see you next week. Hope our "wintering" elsewhere members are enjoying their weather. Happily, lower temperatures and less fierce winds are predicted for the weekend here.

Happy Anniversary to Louise and Ted. :)



- Heather

January 4, 2017

Sounds like a small but enthusiastic group met to play some new songs. As Louise put it, after practicing the same songs for so long for our two gigs before Christmas "the damn broke" and the group is introducing a lot of new fun songs.

Lynn, Louise, Cathie, Sandy and Judy reported that they attended last week.

Lynn introduced Sonny's Dream, I Can't Even Walk, and The World is Not My Home. Cathie brought Black Velvet Band. Next week Louise said she would bring copies of You Can't Always Get What You Want and Angeline the Baker. I will see if I can get Lynn to send me the chords and lyrics of the songs he introduced in the meantime and email them to everyone. Sounds like Louise is working on some songs that employ the clawhammer technique so perhaps she can give us a demo of that as well. 

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