Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Lynn, Louise, Lana, Zenith, Linda, Judy, Barry and Heather met at Lynn's deck in the serenity of his back yard (thanks for the lovely location Lynn)  to strum and sing as it was deemed that meeting in the upstairs of the gallery would be too hot. Unfortunately, Verna and Thelma missed the email regarding the move. Thelma reported that they met for ice cream and then went back home and had their own two-person strum. Next time we should put up a sign at the gallery. Sorry about that, Thelma and Verna :(

We started with: Angeline the Baker, Cryin' Time, Down on the Corner, End of the Line, and Fishin' in the Dark  (fix As and Ds), and Grandpa was a Carpenter. We were choosing in alphabetical order for fun but Lana couldn't think of a B song when she first arrived after golf so we ended up going back to B and later decided to dispense with the albhabetical order idea entirely. We also played: Grandpa was a Carpenter, Black Velvet Band, Harvest Moon (which sounded great), I'll Fly Away, Rollin in my Sweet Baby's Arms, Something Stupid, King of the Road, Put your Hand in the Hand, Someday You'll Want Me to Want You (with Louise picking instrumental part), Walk Away, I'll See you in My Dreams, Hard Times Come Again No More (start slow with first verse and chorus, then speeed up!), Hallelujah, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Dance Me, That Saskatoon Moon, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, The Cuckoo song (starts on Dm with Linda doing high harmony notes), Cotton Fields, You Belong to Me and our signature set ending song.

Since this last meetup we discussed participating as a group in the Carman Fair but decided too many people would be away. You could still walk the route if you liked.

Here is a list of Canada Day songs from Ottawa's Byward Ukulele Group you may want to try out to celebrate.

You can find the chord sheets for the songs here by title.