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