Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Please note that next Wednesday, on October 25th, we will meet upstairs.  

Zenith, Linda, Heather, Judy and Louise met at the gallery. We played the following songs:

Angeline the Baker in C

Build me Up Buttercup in G - not everyone has it in the right key

Bring Me Little Water Sylvie

‎Black Velvet Band

Wagon Wheel

Try to Remember

Saskatoon Moon

One Tin Soldier (remember to print in G)

Annie's Song

He'll Have to Go (tricky)

Grow Old With You

Flowers on the Wall

Go Lassie Go

Have you ever seen the Rain

Stand by Me (this time we tried it in G from the Vancouver book)

Then we started choosing songs with colours in the title, and came up with:

Silver Wings

Red Wing

House of Gold

Brown Eyed Girl

Bye Bye Black Bird (from the Vancouver book)

Blue Moon (from the Vancouver Book

Down On the Corner

our signature set ending song.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Heather, Lynn, Lorna, Louise, Zenith, Judy and Barry met at the gallery.

We played Stand by Me, Moon Shadow, The Farmer's Song, End of the Line, Amazing Grace, Cotton Fields, Don't Be Cruel (with Judy and Heather adding the oooh  oooohs throughout the song), Harvest Moon, Summertime with nice jazzy singing by Judy, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, One Tin Soldier, Passing Through, Rain and Snow, Red Wing, Silver Wings, Rock and Roll Beat and I've Got Rhythm, Rox in the Box, The Saskatoon Moon, Sentimental Journey, Song for a Winter's Night, Uncloudy Day, Walkin' After Midnight, Walk Away, Wildflowers, You Belong to Me, and our signature set ending song. 

We will meet again next Wednesday at the gallery at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Zenith, Lynn, Lorna, Louise, and Lana practiced some old songs-- The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Moonshadow, Harvest Moon, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, and then strummed a few old familiar songs like Margo's Cargo, Making Believe, Angeline the Baker, Walk Away. Ain't No Grave, Fannin Street, Summertime, and more.

Please note that memberships for the Golden Prairie Arts Council are due this month.  Next week we will have a list for people to sign up and pay. 

- Lana

Lana has emailed an easier to read version of Moonshadow which I will post on the blog as well as Angeline the Baker in C. 

There will be an open ukulele jam held in Dugald on Sunday, October 22 at Dugald Estates. More details below:

The GPAC will be holding a concert that members may be interested in later this month. Poster below:

- Heather

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Louise, Lorna, Lana, June, Lynn, Linda, Barry, Heather, Cathie and Zenith visited the Boyne Towers to play for residents as well as visitors from the Boyne Lodge.

We had a fantastic time playing our set list of songs we prepared for the event while the audience, seated with us in a circle, joined us in singing using song sheets prepared by Lana.

We played: You are my Sunshine, Amazing Grace, April Showers, By the light of the Silvery Moon, Cryin’ Time, Goodnight Irene, In the Good Old Summertime. Side by Side. Sentimental Journey, Take me out to the Ballgame, The Glory of Love . I’ll See you in my Dreams and We'll Meet Again.

Once we were done our set we invited the resdidents to sit in our normal practice where group members chose songs to play. We played some of our old favourites like Uncloudy Day, Wildflowers, Wagon Wheel, and some of our new favourites like That Saskatoon Moon, Rox in the Box and Harvest Moon.

The delightful evening ended with coffee, tea and cake served by Berthe Lelond. We will definitely be making a return visit.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Lorna, Linda, Louise, Zenith, Lana. June, Barry, Lynn, Cathie and Heather met at the gallery. We practiced the set list for our performance at the Boyne Towers on Wednesday, September 27th. 

Next Wednesday, we will meet at the Towers. We will sit in a circle with two of our players together and then residents sitting between each pair of group members so they can easily follow the music and sing along. We will play through the set list and then play songs of our choosing to finish our normal two hour get together. Heather willl bring four stands and Lana will bring hers as well. Please take note that Lana sent on two sets of songsheets of the songs in easier keys to sing last week. I will re-send them together. 

You are my Sunshine

Amazing Grace

April Showers

By the light of the Silvery Moon

Cryin’ Time

Goodnight Irene

In the Good Old Summertime

Side by Side

Sentimental Journey

Take me out to the Ballgame

The Glory of Love 

I’ll See you in my Dreams

We'll Meet Again (take out repeat of We'll Meet Again part)

After we practiced the set list we played Down on the Corner, Cotton Fields, Don't Worry, Breaking Up is Hard to Do (from the Scorpex website), The Lion Sleeps Tonight (from Cynthia Lin), Rock and Roll Beat, Rox in the Box, That Saskatoon Moon, and our signature set ending song.

Heather reported on attending the Mass Appeal Ukulele event at the Via Rail Station on September 16, 2017. Over 65 ukulele players attended with representation from Winnipeg and Brandon as well. There were lots of compliments about our Boyne River Strum and Picnic held at Ryall Park last June and players were pleased to hear we will be holding a third annual strum and picnic in June 2018.

See you at Boyne Towers next Wednesday. :)

- Heather

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Lynn, Lorna, Lana Louise and June played the songs that we will play on September 27th at the Boyne Towers.  Louise and Lana put together a playlist that will encourage audience participation.

Lana sent out the songs as well as some revisions to members.

Please note you may want to re-print the latest versions Lana sent as the keys are changed in some of them for easier singing.

Here is the list:

You are my Sunshine

Amazing Grace

April Showers

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Cryin’ Time

Goodnight Irene

In the Good Old Summertime

Side by Side

Sentimental Journey

Take me out to the Ballgame

The Glory of Love 

I’ll See you in my Dreams

We'll Meet Again

We will meet at 7 p.m. at the gallery on Wednesday, Sept. 20 to practice for the Sept. 27th performance on the Towers.

September 6, 2017

Cathie, June, Lorna, Louise, Heather, Zenith, Lori and Tom attended our first return to Wednesday strums after the summer. 

We played: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Saskatoon Moon, Harvest Moon, Go Lassie Go, My Gal Sal, We're Going to be Friends, Tonight You Belong to Me,  One Tin Soldier (introduced by Lori), Rox in the Box, Lie Down Beside Me,  Hard Times Come Again No More, Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Summertime, Leaving on a Jet Plane, J. Edgar Hoover,  Cotton Fields, Country Roads, Tennesee Waltz (c too low g too high) January Wedding and our signature set ending song, which we did discuss changing in the future.

We still plan on playing at the Boyne Towers for our strum night on Wednesday September 27th. Bring a chair and stand as well as your music. Heather will bring four stands.

Anyone who is planning on attending the Mass Appeal ukulele event can find the songs and details here:

https://massappealwinnipeg.ca/2017ukuleles/

The event will take place on Saturday, September 16th at Oodena Circle at the Forks. Bring your music (preferably in a binder), a lawn chair, a music stand, clothes pins or binder paper clips for your music if its windy, and, of course your ukulele. Rehearsal takes place between 12:00 and 1:00 p.m. with tthe concert from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. You can download and print the songs from the site and practice them ahead of time. Please not that Both Sides Now and Something to Sing About were recently corrected and re-uploaded by Kate to the site.

Even if you can't attend, there are some fun songs to play including a few that we play already at our strums.

We will meet again this coming Wednesday, September 13th  at the gallery.