November 23, 2016

Lynn, Louise, Ian, Lana, Lorna, Kim and Kai, Cathie and Judy attended.

We have the following people for the Sonatrice concert Dec 4. at 2pm: Lynn, Louise, Lana Lorna, Ian, Cathie, Tom, Lori, Heather, and Karen.  Kim is uncertain at this point. Please let us know if there is anyone else considering attending. They will try to put us early in the program because of other commitments by some of the group members.   

We deleted Mele Kalikimaka and Silent Night from the program, much to the chagrin of Cathie and Lana (not really!)

Besides the performance songs-- we played Unclouded Day, Hallelujah, Jolene, Aint No Grave, Silver Wings, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Tonight You belong to Me (in C), Walk Away and Margo's Cargo and maybe others that I forgot.

- Lana

Hope to see you this coming Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the train station and remember we perform at the United Church for the Sonatrice concert which starts at 2 and we should be early in the program We should likely meet at the church earlier if possible to tune up.

November 16, 2016

Lynn, Heather, Kim, her son, Judy, Linda, June, Karen, Lorna, Louise, Tom, and Lori attended.

We practiced the songs for our set for the Active Living Concert on Thursday, Dec. 15 which includes: Wagon Wheel, Cryin' Time, Love Potion #9, Red Wing, Sentimental Journey, Walkin' After midnight, Uncloudy Day, Mele Kalikimaka, White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, Jingle Bells, Silent Night, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

We then played Bring Me Little Water Sylvie and Christmas in Killarney which we will play at the Sonatrice Singers Christmas Cheer Board concert on Sunday, December 4 starting at around 2 p..m. at the United Church. 

After we practiced our set lists we played a number of songs from the Vancouver Ukulele Circle book and from our own collected song sheets including:  Yellow Submarine, All I Want Is You, Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (copies provided), , All My Loving, Farewell to Nova Scotia, You Don't Know Me, Dance Me To the End of Love (copies provided), Wildflowers, There's A Kind of Hush, Can't Help Falling in Love, Crazy, and our signature ending song.

We will meet again next Wednesday at the gallery. Hope to see you there!

For anyone interested there is an open mic night coming up organized by the Ukulele Club of Winnipeg I will email members more details. You can also check their website or Facebook page.

November 9, 2016

Members present played through the list for the December 15 performance and then played Leaving on a Jet Plane, Four Strong Winds, Silver Wings, and more.

We  will have strum club again this Wednesday, Nov. 16 at the gallery.

Please let us know if you can attend the ALC Christmas dinner on Dec. 15.

Some of you may have been inspired to play some Leonard Cohen songs after the singer/songwriter's passing last week. I will bring the sheet music for Dance Me to the End of Love to our next meeting and have also emailed copies.

Lynn and I were wondering if once we have performed our current commitments if we should perhaps one meeting a month have people bring and teach the rest of the members a new song.

See you Wednesday :)

November 2, 2016

Kim and her son Kai, Louise, Lorna, Lana, Ian, Lynn, Cathie, and June attended  (hope I didn't forget anyone).

The group played Walkin' After Midnight, I'll See You In My Dreams, We'll Sing in the Sunshine, January Wedding, On the Sunny side of the Street, On top of Spaghetti, Blue Hawaii, Jolene, Rain n Snow and, of course, our signature ending song.

 If possible we would like to know from those we haven't heard from yet if you can play at the ALC dinner on Dec. 15.  If you are going to the dinner, you need to get your tickets at least a week before the event.  If you don't plan to attend the dinner, there will be dessert and coffee for us after the performance.  Our practice on Wednesday, December 14th will be at the Active Living Centre so we can test a few things out.

- Lana

We will meet again next Wednesday, November 9 at the old train station building.

October 26, 2016

We were delighted to welcome Kim back to the group tonight along with her son, Egan. June, Ian, Lynn,Cathie, Louise, Lana, Lorna, Zenith and Sandy rounded out the attendees.  We practiced songs for the concerts and some old favourites and soon to become new favourites.

Farewell to Nova Scotia, Jolene, Leaving on a Jet Plane (with Cathie's chord transposition), Five Foot Two Medley, Lie Down Beside Me (It was a struggle-- will have to work on it) etc, etc.

We said we would practice Red Wing for next week, but almost everyone said they practice all the songs anyway.

- Lana

Thanks Lana.  We will meet again next Wednesday, Novemeber 2nd at the gallery.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to our Wednesday strum. Linda, Linda, Louise, Cathie, Deb, Lynn, Judy, Lorna, Sandy, Tom, Lori, Karen, Zenith, June, and Heather met and played on the first floor of the Golden Prairie Arts Council building.

We practiced the following songs for possible inclusion in our upcoming gig, Wagon Wheel, Cryin' Time, Love Potion #9, Red Wing, Sentimental Journey, Bring Me Little Water Sylvie, Walkin' After midnight, Uncloudy Day, Mele Kalikimaka, White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, Christmas in Killarney, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Lana is going to adjust her arrangement to reflect the order of how we decide to play it), and our signature closing song. 

The plan is to also play Jingle Bells, likely just before Christmas in Killarney. Lana is going to create an arrangement for us in C.

We decided to practice Sentimental Journey at home for next time.

After going through our practice songs, we chose the following songs to play: Walk away, Farewell to Nova Scotia, House of the rising Sun, King of the Road, Hotel California, and Blowin' in the Wind, all from the Vancouver Ukulele Circle book, and another take of our signature ending song. 

Thanks for all the ukulele playing fun and the great singing.

We will meet again next Wednesday, this time on the second floor as the first floor meeting room has a booking.

October 12, 2016

Sandy joined us for the first time tonight. We also had some special visitors, Emily and Brea. Rounding out the group were: Cathie, June, Karen, Ian, Linda, Judy, Deb, Zenith, Louise, Lana, Lorna, Heather and Lynn.

For next week we decided to work on Love Potion #9 and Winter Wonderland.

Here are the songs we played: Wagon Wheel, Cryin Time, Love Potion Number 9, Red Wing, Sentimental Journey‎, Walkin after Midnight, Unclouded Day, Mele Kalikimaka,Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Winter Wonderland, Deck the Halls, Jingle Bells, Christmas in Killarney, Silent Night (with chord melody only first, then chords and singing, and then chord melody for the final verse), We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Frere Jacques, Silver Wings and our signature ending song. 

We agreed we will play the Active Living Centre show starting about 7:15 on Thursday, Dec. 15 playing the main songs we have been practicing as well as some Christmas tunes, including some as a sing along with those in attendance. Since we have such a large group now we felt it would be unfair to accept the invitation to supper, however members can buy supper tickets on their own. We will meet before 7:00 (time to be announced) to tune up. We have also been asked to play a couple of songs at the Christmas Cheer concert.

We will meet next Wednesday on the second floor of the gallery. Hope to see you there!