June 26, 2017

NOTE as Lana mentions below, we will not meet this Monday evening July 3 unless someone wishes to get the key from Louise.

June, Manae, Zenith, Linda, Lorna, Judy, Louise, Lana, Cathie, Lynn after baseball and Tom and Lori attended.  We practiced Moonshadow by Cynthia Lin-- just with the strum for now.  The tutorial is good help for practicing the fingerpicking.  Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgHgFtVKPk&feature=youtu.be.  Other songs: Manitoba, I Like Ukuleles, Rain n Snow,  Saskatoon Moon, Rox in the Box,  Cotton Fields,  I'll See you in my Dreams, You Belong to Me.  Harvest Moon, Rock n Roll Beat (harmonies were great) and others I forgot.

June brought A Harlem Goat (the song, not the beast) and Anytime. 

This was Manae's last night with us-- she leaves this week to return to Japan-- but she promised to keep in touch and to watch the blog for our new songs.  She brought special (Japanese) treats for us.  Thanks so much, Manae.  We wish all the best for you: health, happiness and a safe trip home.

Since next week is Folk Fest and people are busy with July 1st festivities etc. we decided not to meet next Monday.  However, if you really need your Uke-fix-- Louise will happily relinquish the key.

Happy Canada "150" to all.

- Lana

I was sorry to miss ukulele night this week but was busy getting slideshows ready for Manae's graduation. She will be missed from our school and our club as well. She will be taking home the Luna Peace ukulele I loaned and now gave her for a parting/grad gift.  She confirmed with me yesterday at grad that she will indeed be following our ukulele journey on the blog. During her grad speech she said she would be thinking of ways to come back to Canada to visit again. I'm sure playing ukulele with us again will be one of them. 

The tutorial for Moonshadow that Lana emailed our member list can be found on the practice videos page on the blog. You can download the chord sheet directly from the video as Cynthis mentions. We have also emailed it to club members. 


- Heather