Monday, August 28, 2017

Please Note: Our next session will be Wednesday, September 6th, the start to our return to Wednesday meetups at the gallery. 

We celebrated our last Monday meetup by playing some Canadian songs, old favourites and some new tunes. Louise, Zenith, Marge, Barry, Lana and Heather attended.

After we played Manitoba and Saskatoon Moon, Louise introduced the group to Glory of Love, a song, she, Lana and Lynn learned at the Silver Creek International Ukulele Carnival under the direction of Ukester Brown. It is a great song to practice moving chord shapes up and down the neck of your ukulele. Lana will be preparing an electronic version that I will then upload onto the blog. We then played Angeline the Baker, Cotton Fields, Darlin' Corey, House of Gold, Harvest Moon (which is coming along very well), Moon Shadow (chord sheet and practice video by Cynthia Lin is on the blog), Rox in the Box, Summetime (from the Bytown site on the blog), Sentimental Journey, Go Lassie (we picked the song in 3/4 time). Zenith gave us the chords to Breaking Up is Hard to Do which we will practice at home to try next time. We ended with our signature set-ending song.

We decided that we will hold our September 27th session, the last Wednesday of the month, at the Boyne Towers, with an invitation to Lodge residents.

The Ukulele Mass Appeal concert at the Forks will be Saturday, September 16th.  Some members will be attending or involved with planning for Carman's multicultural events being held throughout the month of September so we will not practice for the mass appeal event as a group. Some of the songs featured, however, are ones we have played before such as Sonny's Dream (the Ukulele Club of Winnipeg version has more verses), Four Strong Winds, Harvest Moon, and Manitoba. More information about the Mass Appeal ukulele concert and the song sheets can be found here: https://massappealwinnipeg.ca/2017ukuleles/

Hope to see you next Wednesday at the gallery!

- Heather

August 21, 2017

We had a bit bigger crowd this Monday evening as members came back from holidays and a couple of special guests joined us. Regular members Louise, Cathie, Judy, Heather, Lynn, Ian and Linda attended. Jack McKinnon joined the McKinnon family, attending to listen and sing along, and Kelly, Linda and Jack's grandson and Ian's nephew, joined us in playing and singing. He is a musically talented 13 year old and we look forward to him joining us again perhaps during winter break. 

Songs we played included: The Gambler, Sonny's Dream, Rain and Snow, Take One Last Look, Moonshadow (remember to check out the Cynthia Lin tutorial video and chord sheet that was sent and posted previously), Stand by Me (from the Vancouver book, second version), The Saskatoon Moon, January Wedding, Should I Stay or Should I Go (from the Vancouver book), Down On the Corner, Wagon Wheel, Tonight You Belong to Me, Hallelujah, Love Potion #9, Rox in the Box, Angeline the Baker, Cryin' Time, Redwing, Farewell to Nova Scotia, Under the Boardwalk and our signature set ending song. 

We decided the group would start meeting again on Wednesday evenings instead of Mondays starting the first Wednesday after Labour Day.

We hope to perform to raise some money for the gallery and the Active Living Centre and will also be investigating playing at the Farmer's Market, the Boyne Lodge and perhaps a couple of other locations in September. 

Hope to see you all at the train station next Monday, August 28.

Monday, August 14, 2017

After a bit of a hiatus as various members were on holidays, Bria, Lorna, Linda, Zenith, Lana, Judy, Barry, Louise, and Heather met at the gallery.


I forgot to write all of the songs down but we played a lot of old favourites including Wagon Wheel, Cotton fiields, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Grow Old with You, Harvest Moon (coming along nicely), l'll See You in my Dreams, Walk Away, Three Little Birds, Rock and Roll Beat /I've Got Rhythm, The Littlest Worm (to the tune of the goat song - Heather will write out and distribute), Leaving on a Jet Plane (inspired by Lana's re-telling of what she termed the best Winnipeg Folk Festival she has ever attended where Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary fame performed and brought the audience to tears with his brilliance), Summertime, Sonny's Dream in C (we will try it in F again next time), That Saskatoon Moon, Silverwings, Something Stupid in F, Tonight You Belong to Me,  You Belong to Me in C. Love Potion #9, Cryin' Time, You Don't Know Me, and our signature set ending song. 

We will meet again next Monday evening in the gallery from 7-9 p.m.

Hope to see you then :)