Blog and website for Ukes4Fun & Misspent Uke Ukulele Sessions
Both events will be upstairs at The Cumberland Arms, Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne – more info about exact timings and tickets to follow – but here is everything you need to know about Mike and Aldrine!
Continue reading “Mike Hind 30 Sept | Aldrine Guerrero 14 Oct! | #Newcastle #ukulele @thecumby”
Another wonderful workshop and fantastic performance by Del Rey at The Cumberland Arms on Wed 2nd September!
Keith Perry very kindly took group photo’s before the Ukulele Workshop and Aaron Tucker snapped away indoors!
There were over forty people at Del’s guitar and ukulele performance – the biggest turnout so far!
Some of the comments posted online, from people who travelled from across the north east and Cumbria:
“Went to see Del Ray at The Cumberland Arms in Byker the other night. I thought it was brilliant. Mesmerising”
“Thoroughly enjoyed it last night . . . Del Rey, what a talented lady and a good sense of humour!! Looking forward to next year and finishing my “homework!!”
“What a great night!”
“Truly awesome – you had to be there!”
Many thanks to everyone who took video and uploaded it to YouTube – especially to Paul Hurrell, who not only captured Del’s “Workshop Highlights” but all of her performance!
If your video is missing from these Playlists, please leave a link in a comment and I will add it:
Del Rey Plays and Teaches Ukulele:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3G6UTOZzczUyI6MDif3dVg47_D3uxYKW
Del Rey Places and Teaches Guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3G6UTOZzczV16IBysAAgT80IWLo7Quav
More Del Rey Links:
Del Rey Website: http://delreyplays.com/
Del Rey Tutorial CDs on Homespun:
https://www.homespun.com/instructors/del-rey/
Del Rey Performance CDs:
http://hobemianrecords.com/
Memphis Minnie:
http://memphisminnie.com/
One Mic Stand – Advice on playing more music with less sound equipment:
http://www.onemicstand.com/
Finally, many thanks to Del and to everyone else who made this event happen: to Aaron Tucker for creating the event posters, Dennis Bell and Tommy Stephenson for helping on the night, The Cumberland Arms for the venue – and Newcastle Kingsmen Rapper Team for letting us have their usual practice time in the venue – and to everyone who came along and made this such a memorable and inspiring night!
Liz Panton
ps. Sign up here for information about future events: http://eepurl.com/1k0wr
pps. If you attended the Del Rey Workshop and would like print-quality copies of the group photo image files, please leave a comment below or contact me by email (spam protected link): http://scr.im/ukes4fun
Wednesday 2nd Sept 2015
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street, Byker
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 1LD
Performance: £5
Ukulele Workshop: £13
(includes Free Entry to Performance!)
Continue reading “Del Rey! Return of the Resonator Queen! Wed 2 Sept Newcastle upon Tyne”
If you came to the Manitoba Hal or Del Rey Workshops last year then you will be familiar with “Ukes4Fun Workshops and Events eNews”.
This is a MailChimp eNewsletter that we send out with notice of new events. Once you have signed up for a specific event, we also send out any updates in a special eNewsletter for participants.
The eNewsletters are fancy pieces of work – see the Manitoba Hal eNewsletter.
The actual “eNews sign up form” page was very boring though – so I have jazzed it up!
Take a look – hit the “Join Our Mailing List” Button on this page and sign up if you want to go on the eNews Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/1k0wr
Do pass that link on to anyone else who you think might be interested!
ps. Del Rey might be coming back to do another workshop and performance later this year! If she does (fingers crossed!) we will send out more info to everyone on the eNews mailing list.
3/4 of the £12 “Workshop + Performance” tickets sold in less than 7 days!
Manitoba Hal “The Ukulele Blues Man”
Wed May 20th
Workshop 6:00 – 7:00: “Learn Any Song by Ear”
Performance 7:30 – 8:15: “Blues Ukulele”
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street
Byker
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 1LD
Workshop only: £10
Performance only: £3
OR
Workshop + Performance: £12!
-> More information <-
Book a place now!
-> RSVP Ticket Form <-
There are lots of other videos on Manitoba Hal’s YouTube Channel and manitobahal.com
The most popular vote by far was,
“I would be happy with any of the workshops!”
“Learn Any Song by Ear”
won by a narrow margin over “Slide Ukulele”.
In this workshop you will learn how to figure out the chords and rhythm to any song you can hear – using only a cheap chromatic tuner and a “circle of fifths” in the handout.
There will be some music theory involved but nothing too difficult to remember.
* Suitable for all ukuleles and all skill levels.
Also, see this blog post from last year – Hal’s last workshop was fully booked. The way tickets are flying out the door for this one, “back by popular demand” is putting it lightly!
Whether you are getting yourself revved up for this workshop or just want a great primer on how to play Blues Ukulele – see Manitoba Hal’s “Ukulele Blues Method Book“! Hal revised this for his UK Tour last year – hopefully he will be bringing more copies along this time!
As last year . . .
Manitoba Hal’s UK Tour has been organised by those wonderful, groovy people behind Northern Uke – the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival!
Hal is one of the amazing ukulele artists and tutors appearing at:
Sign up for Ukes4Fun Workshop and Events eNews here: http://eepurl.com/1k0wr
Look at these lovely Manitoba Hal Brolund tickets
that Aaron Tucker made!
Over half of the “Workshop + Performance” £12 tickets are spoken for now – so hurry, hurry, hurry!
Manitoba Hal “The Ukulele Blues Man
Wed May 20th
Workshop 6:00 – 7:00
Performance 7:30 – 8:15
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street
Byker
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 1LD
Workshop only: £10
Performance only: £5
OR
Workshop + Performance: £12!
-> More information <-
Book a place now!
-> RSVP form <-
There are lots of other videos on Manitoba Hal’s YouTube Channel
Also, see this blog post from last year – Hal’s last workshop was fully booked and we expect this one to be just as popular!
Whether you are getting yourself revved up for this workshop or just want a great primer on how to play Blues Ukulele – see Manitoba Hal’s “Ukulele Blues Method Book“! Hal revised this for his UK Tour last year – hopefully he will be bringing more copies along this time!
As last year . . .
Manitoba Hal’s UK Tour has been organised by those wonderful, groovy people behind Northern Uke – the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival!
Hal is one of the amazing ukulele artists and tutors appearing at:
Good to know that Manitoba Hal Brolund will be back soon!
Wed May 20th
Workshop 6:00 – 7:00
Performance 7:30 – 8:15
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street
Byker
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE6 1LD
Workshop only: £10
Performance only: £5
OR
Workshop + Performance: £12!
-> More information <-
Book a place now!
-> RSVP form <-
There are lots of other videos on Manitoba Hal’s YouTube Channel
Also, see this blog post from last year – Hal’s last workshop was fully booked and we expect this one to be just as popular!
Whether you are getting yourself revved up for this workshop or just want a great primer on how to play Blues Ukulele – see Manitoba Hal’s “Ukulele Blues Method Book“! Hal revised this for his UK Tour last year – hopefully he will be bringing more copies along this time!
As last year . . .
Manitoba Hal’s UK Tour has been organised by those wonderful, groovy people behind Northern Uke – the Grand Northern Ukulele Festival!
Hal is one of the amazing ukulele artists and tutors appearing at:
Message from GNUF on 23 March:
“There are now only TWELVE FESTIVAL TICKETS LEFT for the full weekend and only a handful of Saturday/Sunday day tickets. We have sold out of children’s tickets, young adult tickets and other discounts.
The whole thing could well sell out this week.”
If you have been before you will know that this is a fantastic event and amazing value for money, with staggeringly good international-league main stage performers and excellent acts from across the north and the rest of the UK at the fringe venues.
£39 Weekend
£29 Saturday or Sunday Day Ticket
All the Friday night events are free entry.
£17 each Skills/Performance Workshop
£36 each Making Things Workshop
http://northernuke.com/2015/performers-2015/
http://northernuke.com/2015/workshops/
http://northernuke.com/2015/2015-festival/
If you find that the Northern Uke website has crashed (due to overload from ticket buyers?) as it did today, you can still use these links to buy tickets:
Festival Tickets:
http://www.thelbt.org/node/1206
Workshop Tickets:
https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/22163/chk/6401
Continue reading “GNUF 2015 – Tickets selling like hot cakes! | @northernuke”
The best tip is to follow the advice published on http://www.musicteachers.co.uk
There is also a search facility on the site to find music teachers.
This organisation works in conjunction with the Musicians Union. For the protection of its members, the MU publishes the names of individuals and organisations where it feels members should receive advice and information before proceeding with any involvement: please see p 33 of http://issuu.com/musicians_union/docs/the_musician__autumn_2012
The MU only advises its members, not the public. However, it is unlikely that an individual or organisation that is a cause of concern to the MU would be listed on the Music Teachers website.
There will also be many GOOD teachers who are NOT listed on the Music Teachers website – just because a name is missing, do not assume that there is any cause for concern.
Use this advice published on the Music Teachers site to inform your judgement:
Continue reading “Tips for looking for a ukulele tutor”
A lovely song to while away the summer – with some links to stuff that you might find useful for finding and learning other songs!
There are some beautiful ukulele versions of “Sunny” on the internet, both sung and instrumental. None of the versions here have been recorded as a tutorial, with the purpose of teaching someone how to play the song. I just liked these ones. There are many other versions that I liked too but I had to stop somewhere and 10, including Bobby Hebb’s original, seemed like a good place to draw the line.
My top pick for the easiest arrangement to play and sing is by NGUYEN DINH Quoc-Huy.
Continue reading ““Sunny” by Bobby Hebb – a song for the Sunday Summer Break”
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