Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Despite the stormy night a good crowd gathered to practice in the cozy atmosphere upstairs in the train station.

Lynn brought along AJ, a Grade 9 student at Carman Collegiate and a great ukulele player and singer who meets each Monday at lunch with the Carman Collegiate Ukulele Club supervised by Heather and Lynn. Welcome AJ!

Thelma and Verna attended for their second time after joining Lana and Louise earlier to go through some chord practice. Rounding out the group were Barry, Cathie, Marge, Linda and Heather.

We played: Cotton Fields, Passing Through, Worried Man Blues (see the copy with more verses on the blog and in the Google drive song files), Wagon Wheel, Angelina the Baker, House of Gold (one we have played before but a performance song of the student club), This World is Not My Home, Grow Old With Me, Goodnight Irene, Cryin Time, Leaning on the Everlasting Arm, I'll Fly Away, Clementine, Harvest Moon, Red Wing, Rox in the Box, Little Brown Jug, Rock and roll Beat/I've Got Rhythm, One Tin Soldier, Sonny's Dream, Little suitcase in My Hand (see corrected version on the blog and in the Google drive folder), I'll See you in My Dreams, We're going to be Friends, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, and our signature sets ending song trying it in the key of G.

 A reminder that we are planning to have our practice an hour earlier (starting at 6) on Wednesday, January 24th at the Boyne Lodge and on Wednesday February 21st, also an hour early at 6 p.m., at the Boyne Lodge.

Please also consider whether you would like to take part in this year's quiz night (there was a ukulele/retired teachers team some of our members took part in last year, winning the event). Lana will have more details.

We have also been asked if we would consider playing on Wednesday afternoon during the last week of March (most members were either working or on spring break the last two years we were invited).

The Ukulele Club of Winnipeg has added our Sunday, June 10 Boyne River Ukulele Strum and Picnic to their calendar. It will be a regular bi-weekly strum for them so they will come to Carman rather than their usual Winnipeg location that day. Some Brandon group members also plan to attend. Heather was speaking with a contact in Portage who is trying to start a club there as well. 

Be sure to check out the link to a neat chord progression  tool on the sidebar of the blog.

Hope to see you all next Wednesday :) There will be a chording practice again for new or any interested members starting at 6:30 upstairs with the regular practice starting at 7 p.m.