Wednesday April 18, 2018

Lynn, Louise, Zenith, Barry, Myrna, June, Verna, Lana, Thelma, Heather and Cathie met in at the gallery.  Myrna is Barry's sister-- Welcome!

We played Sonny's Dream, Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jambalaya, Fifty Miles of elbow Room, Orphan Girl with a new strum, Saskatoon Moon, wildflowers, Dirty Old Town, Tell Me Why, One Tin Soldier, I'll See You in My Dreams, 500 Miles, The Cuckoo, Put Your Hand in the Hand, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Lakes of Ponchartrain, You Are My Sunshine and our signature set ending song.

I am sending an update of Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms,You Are My Sunshine, One tin Soldier, and Black Velvet Band.  They will also be on the Drive.  Black Velvet Band is in A-- a better key for singing, I think,  It also involves the "dreaded" E chord that will give us another song to help us perfect it. lol

I have decided that when people bring in new songs, I will scan them to put on the Drive and to distribute to those who are not in attendance.  When I try to "prettify" them, it sometimes results in slightly different lyrics or chord combinations and not everyone will have the same version.  This will, I hope, avoid any confusion.

Barry and I are still working on the Tom Petty version of Wildflowers that he brought.  The version on the Drive is quite OK.

I am looking for suggestions for the Set-list for the Lodge on April 25.  Remember we need to be there before 6 to have enough time to set up and tune up to begin singing and playing at 6.

Here is the set list for Wednesday: 

Five Foot Two/ Yes sir that's my baby (Van Bk)

Walkin' After Midnight

Amazing Grace

Hard Times in G

Cryin' Time

Dirty Old Town

Down in the Valley in F

Edelweiss in D

Fifty Miles of Elbow Room

Go Lassie Go

I'll See you in my Dreams

Making Believe in F

Put Your Hand in the Hand

Saskatoon Moon

Ukulele Lady for ALC

I'll fly Away in C

Silver Wings

Leaning on the Everlasting in G

You are My sunshine  Bytown in C

We'll Meet Again

Blame it on the Ukulele

- Lana

Let Lana know if you are missing any of the songs. They should also all be on the blog and the drive. Thanks Lana for putting this great set list together. See you at the Lodge on Wednesday everyone! 

Here is the video Louise mentioned for Orphan Girl. She also noted that she taught us the strum a little differently (this one you strum us whereas we strummed down. Just remember the first time you use your thumb strum the G stringt once, and then you use your thumb to strum the G string twice.).

- Heather

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

The group met in the gallery and played the following songs:

I'll Fly Away, Saskatoon Moon, Hard Times Come Again No More, Rain and Snow, Dirty Old Town with dirty old harmonica introduction and tin whistle accompaniment, January Wedding, Lie Down Beside Me with strumming edits, Early Morning Rain (we need to see the videos), Go Lassie Go with edits, Five Foot Two medley, Put Your Hand in the Hand, You Gotta Sing When your spirit says Sing with the "dreaded E-chord", Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Working Man, 500 Miles, Five Foot Two medley, Wabash Canon Ball, Uncloudy Day, You Belong to Me, Clementine, Harvest Moon, Margo's Cargo and our signature set ending song.

- Lana

I have posted the new songs Lana sent out to the blog song sheets page and here:

Lakes of Ponchatrain
These are the Days
SIx Days on the Road
You Gotta Shout
Put Your Hand in the Hand
Early Morning Rain

Here is a video for Early Morning Rain

- Heather

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Zenith (welcome back!), Lana, Heather, Verna, Linda, Cathie, Lynn, Louise, June and Barry attended.

We played: Don't be Cruel, Suitcase in my Hand, I'll See You in My Dreams, I Saw her Standing There, Cryin' Time, Blowin' in the Wind, Dirty Old Town, Wagon Wheel, The Next Time I'm in Town, Harvest Moon, Have You Seen the Rain, Silver Winds, 500 Miles, Goodnight Irene, Imagine, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Walk Away, Angeline the Baker, Rox in the Box, Six Days on The Road, Someday You'll Want Me to Want You, Sonny's Dream, and our signature set ending song. Lynn brought along Six Days on the Road which he would like to play in the style of Taj Mahal's recording.

There was a bit of a mix up as far as me signing us up to play at Tempo Fest. We still could have played near the end of the Tuesday event but the group decided to abstain since a few members couldn't attend and we want to work more on Harvest Moon. You can still go and listen to Louise playing with her granddaughter and I will be whistling and playing ukulele along with my neighbour.

So far we have accepted an invitation to play at the Boyne Lodge the evening of Wednesday, April 25th. We will start at 6 p.m. instead of our regular 7 p.m. Please arrive a bit earlier to set up.

I have uploaded the medleys Lana sent out.

Five Foot Two/Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

Old-Time Medley - Bells Are Ringing/By The Light of the Silvery Moon

Five Foot Two/Yes Sir, That's My Baby/Ain't She Sweet

On a personal note, I had a great time being able to play along with you all again. See you next week when we will meet on the main floor of the gallery at 7 p.m.

- Heather

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

A day and evening full of ukulele playing-- what could be better than that?  The concert at the ALC was mostly successful.  Harvest Moon still needs strum and timing work, but after a slow start, we finished in style.  Ukulele Lady was a HIT!!  We ended up with 12 people-- Louise, Linda and her grandson, Evan, Barry and his grandsons, Kelly and Ryan, Tom, Lori, Judy, June, Verna and Lana. It was a great turnout considering we started with five people.  

In the evening we played: Amazing Grace, Down in the Valley, Down on the Corner, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Leaving on a Jet Plane, You Belong to Me, Stand by Me, Love Potion #9, Wagon Wheel, Rox in the Box, Rain and Snow, Rollin in My Sweet Baby's Arms, I'll See you in My Dreams, Sentimental journey, I Can See Clearly Now, Hard Tines, Someday You'll want me to Want You, House of the Rising Sun, Tonight You Belong to Me, Wabash Canon Ball, Side by Side, Walkin' After Midnight, Sonny's Dream, Can't Help Falling in Love, Song for a Winters night, The Cuckoo and our signature set ending song.

Next week we will meet downstairs at the Gallery and welcome Thelma back.

I have uploaded The Cuckoo and Wabash Cannonball and I Can See Clearly Now-- check out the video on Youtube--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fWai4h4jg

See you next Wednesday.

- Lana

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Louise, June, Lynn, Judy, Barry, Verna, Linda and Lana met at 6 pm on Wednesday to practice for the ALC concert.

At 7 p.m., we reverted to our normal jam with: Saskatoon Moon, Silver Wings, I'll Fly Away, Take Me out to the Ball Game, The Cuckooo, Sound of Silence, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Passing Through, Peaceful Easy Feeling, Fifty Miles of Elbow Room, Hard Times, Jolene, Go Lassie Go, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Wagon Wheel, Flowers on the Wall, Don't Be Cruel, Jambalaya, and three new songs--Someday You'll Want Me to Want You, The Next Time I'm in Town and Union Maid.

There is some work to do on several of the songs-- check YouTube for Peaceful, Easy Feeling, Someday You'll Want Me to Want You and The Next Time I'm in Town.

We will meet at 1:00 p.m. at the ALC-- good idea to be tuned up as there is little space to do that on that day.

I have uploaded Jambalaya in G, Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms and Peaceful Easy Feeling as well as the revised version of Sound of Silence.

- Lana

I have uploaded the new songs to to the blog as well.

Here are the Youtube videos for Peaceful Easy Feeling, Someday You'll Want Me to Want You and The Next Time I'm in Town.

Have a great time at the ALC concert!

- Heather

Peaceful Easy Feeling

Someday You'll Want Me

The Next Time I'm in Town

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

PLEASE NOTE: Next Wednesday (March 21) we will meet at the Gallery at 6 pm as discussed last week.  The performance at the Lodge will be postponed until April.

We met at 6 pm to practice for the ALC concert. Lynn, Linda, Judy, Louise, Barry, Verna, June (welcome back) and Lana practiced Ukulele Lady and Harvest Moon. Those strums on HM are sounding better all the time.

At 7pm we were delighted to see Tom and Lori and congratulate them on their upcoming performances at the Winnipeg Folk Festival.  We offered to accompany them on our ukes, but Tom thought they couldn't afford us.

We played Side by Side (a great song for the Lodge-- or ALC-- we decided it would be our encore), Saskatoon Moon, (another encore possibility- lol), You Belong to Me, Walk Away, Worried Man Blues, This Land is Your Land, 500 Miles, Darlin' Corey, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Hard Times, Down on the Corner, Wagon Wheel, Cotton Fields, Rox in the Box, Sound of Silence, Working Man, Song for a Winter's Night, When Irish Eyes are Smiling, Grandpa, Fifty Miles of elbow Room, Just Because, Red Wing and our signature set ending song.

Three hours-- and Lynn wasn't ready to quit yet.  We agreed it was a great evening.

- Lana

I have added Lana's new arrangement of Sounds of Silence here.

- Heather

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Lynn, Judy, Barry, Verna, Louise and Lana practiced Harvest Moon-- it is coming along.

Louise brought Ukulele Lady that will be a cute addition to Harvest Moon at the Active Living Concert.

We also played:  Angeline the Baker, Walkin' After Midnight, Silver Wings, Darlin' Corey, 500 miles, Worried Man Blues, Something, Making Believe, Bring Me L'il Water Sylvie, Rain and Snow, Hey Good Lookin, Have you ever seen the Rain, Bad Moon Rising, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Wagon Wheel, Grandpa was a Carpenter and our signature set ending song.

We decided that we need some extra practice on Ukulele Lady, so those people who will be able to attend the ALC concert on March 28th, please come early next week.  We will start at 6:00 p.m. upstairs at the Gallery.

- Lana

The group decided to play Ukulele Lady at the ALC concert on March 28th.  We will practice next week at 6 pm.  

Lana sent out the chords. I have also added them to the blog.

Arlo Guthrie sings it here:

Lana also warned that next week she would bring Sound of Silence by Cynthia Lin. The chord chart has been uploaded to the blog. The tutorial is here: