Wednesday, August 3

Another Wednesday summer storm and a small group meant we met at Judy's place. Judy, Heather and Louise attended. 

We played by candle light (the cool kind with batteries that won't burn your house down) and camp lantern light for part of the evening using the lack of light to work on our memorization skills of Rain and Snow, Cryin' Time, Silver Wings, Wagon Wheel, and Wildflowers. We also tried You Don't Know Me and January Wedding which Louise has been practicing and House of Gold which Heather has been practicing.

When the lights came back on we played Unclouded Day (starting on G) which is the best key for Lynn to sing although not so great for the rest of us :) When Lynn is able to attend the rest of us can sing harmony or an octave higher and it all sounds nice together.

Here is a link to January Wedding. Please note that we played E7 in the version we played rather than E. Check under the side bar heading of Boyne River Ukulele Group song sheets for links to House of Gold and You Don't Know Me.

We will meet again next Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 27

Louise, Lynn and later Kim attended.

Members worked on memorizing some of our regular pieces like Rain and Snow and played Unclouded Day and new song Lynn brought. 

We will meet again next Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 20

Lorna graciously hosted. Although we played by the light of the window at times during a storm complete with wind, rain, thunder, lightning and falling trees, we were able to play for our regular time period. Lorna, Judy, Louise, Becky, Heather and Lynn were in attendance.

As the power faded in and out, we played Tonight You Belong to Me with Becky adding the nice G GSus4 picking part from the Mike Lynch version, Silver Wings, Crying Time, Redwing, Unclouded Day (deciding now at least when Lynn is singing to use the version that starts in G), Wagon Wheel, Rain and Snow, Stand By Me (we agreed to listen to and try to learn to play the original version that starts on C in the Vancouver book rather than the Cynthia Lin version), Wildflowers, Sentimental Journey, Tennessee Waltz, Wagon Wheel, Don't Be Cruel, Making Believe, Margo's Cargo, and our secret set ending song.

Check the practice videos page in response to Becky's question about how the group chooses strum patterns. 

Lorna and Heather reported that our playing with Lana as part of the garden tour at the Bergsma's yard was well received. We played a number of outdoor/garden themed songs including Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Wildflowers, Unclouded Day, Rain and Snow and April Showers. Other favourites were Silver Wings, Margo's Cargo, Making Believe, Don't Be Cruel and Wagon Wheel,

Louise told us about one of the workshops that was held at the Folk Festival where it was recommended that players try to memorize their music for performance. This is something we can try starting with some of the songs we are pretty familiar with. Perhaps Rain and Snow would be a good candidate? Feel free to suggest others. Update:  here are some great suggestions from Louise to start: Wagon Wheel, Crying time, Red Wing, (the secret song) and maybe Wildflowers. 

Lynn reported that we have a had a request to play at the Boyne Lodge. We agreed the songs we practiced should be good choices for a performance at the Lodge. Are there others we should try? 

We will next meet at the gallery on Wednesday July 27 at 7 p.m. 

Wednesday, July 13

Updated:

Sorry for missing some posts. We took a break the week of the Folk Festival.

Louise, Lorna, Lana, Judy, Heather and newcomer from Winkler, Becky, met upstairs at the art gallery on Wednesday, July 13. 

We played Unclouded Day (starting on C), Don't Be Cruel (slowly, based on a version in a movie Lynn saw), Tonight You Belong to Me (starting on G and incorporating a G, G, G, Gsus4, G, G x 2 riff), Rain and Snow, Silver Wings, Wildflowers, Wagon Wheel, the song from Juno, Crying Time, the new secret song and perhaps a few more.

We agreed to work on Tonight You Belong to Me for next time.  The version we played is based on the version in the Bytown Ukulele Group book (see sidebar) with the riff added that you can see in this version performed by ukulele entertainer Uncle Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSqRIe-qc4

Lorna and Heather and for part of the time Lana will be playing during the Carman garden tour this Saturday. Email Heather for more information on the time and location if you would like to take part.

We will meet again next Wednesday evening at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, June 8

Louise and Lana practiced Dream a Little Dream, Sentimental Journey and a surprise song. They decided to practice these and The Lion Sleeps Tonight for Wednesday, June 15.  

Louise, Lana, Lorna, Heather and likely Tom and Lori will be attending on Wednesday, June 15 so we will hold our practice on the second level of the art gallery.

Can't wait to find out what the surprise song is :)

Wednesday, June 1

Lorna, Louise, Heather, Lana and at the very end, after baseball, Lynn attended.

We practiced the songs we plan to perform as an ensemble at the Ukulele Strum and Picnic on Sunday  Lana and Lorna will prepare song sheets to hand out at the event for anyone wanting to play Wagon Wheel, Silver WIngs, Rain and Snow and Margo's Cargo with us. 

We also practiced a song by Emmy Lou Harris, and, from the Vancouver Circle book, Farewell to Nova Scotia, April Showers and Love Potion Number Nine.

Heather will bring along some stands for Sunday. We will have lunch at 12 noon with the Carman Collegiate Strum Club playing at 12:30, followed by out group, the WInnipeg group and the an open strum.

We will next meet upstairs at the Golden Prairie Arts Council building on Wednesday, June 8. 

Wednesday, May 11, 18, 25 

Taxes were done so Lorna could finally attend our May meet ups but school field trips and baseball had some of our other members busy on Wednesday evenings for these dates.

We will next meet upstairs at the Golden Prairie Arts Council building on Wednesday, June 1 (tonight). 

Reminders were sent to the Ukulele Club of Winnipeg about out Ukulele Strum and Picnic on Sunday, June 5th. There is some interest in about at least 10 players in attending. We will also have a few students from the Carman Collegiate Strum Club able to play along with Heather and Lynn at 12:30.

It would be nice if our Wednesday evening group could choose three or four songs to play on Sunday on stage. We can of course join in on any group strums as well.