Mainely Ukulele Guild

2010-05-08T07:39:00.000-07:00

We are very neglectful bloggers. No post since December. We were so fortunate to have the Machias group come up last April for an open Mic. We'll get down for one of their practices soon. What great fun talent they all are!

I am in Northern California now. Going to listen to some jazz this morning at Coffee Roasters in San Anselmo. The fleajumpers are meeting and the Berkley Club meets this Friday I believe. I hoped to catch a Luau nearby but need to find out where they meet this week. I've been really sick not down and out just unable to sing and gunky. The poor cats have been banned from my area in the house here.

Working on learning to pick out tunes better and read tabs. Now to read notes...

Piers Partridge in G.B.

2009-12-10T14:58:00.000-08:00

Piers Partridge currently my favorite ukulele player who I believe lives near Bristol where my brother in law James used to live. His group is called Pindrop music and you can find them at Coveywood's channel.
We'd love to get them all over to Maine someday.
Micca

2009-12-08T05:15:00.001-08:00

Picking and Blues lesson was great yesterday. Thanks, Lake

2009-12-05T16:37:00.000-08:00

Snowing here. We're supposed to get 6-8 inches! That's a bit more than this mornings forecast of 1-2.
Time to start humidifying our ukes for the dry winter indoor air. Maybe we could crawl into a ukulele case with an apple to keep ourselves from drying out too?
M

Bed blog

2009-11-22T06:18:00.000-08:00

Aloha uke lovers,
Well we are missing Micca but she is doing west coast funnnnnnnn things while we are doing Maine work things. Charlotte is visiting from Boston with her new Lanakai CONCERT uke and it sounds fantastic! She is writing flamenco songs already and I am lovin it. We would play you one right now but we are in bed. The ukulele is downstairs.

We are discussing the festival we will be having next summer here, dreaming about various uke artists we would like to have.

Mahalo

Aquila Nylgut strings

2009-11-14T16:45:00.000-08:00

Just put on new sets of Aquila Nylgut strings on my tenor with low wound G and my pineapple soprano. They both sound so much better. I had tried using a small gauge guitar metal wound string for the low G but there was a funny metal ringing from it. Micca
www.fleamarketmusic.com carries Aquila strings

Bosko and Honey's ukulele safari 2010

2009-10-23T08:55:00.000-07:00

Just voted for my favorite entry for the contest. There are really some fun and talented uke folks out there.

2009-10-21T18:01:00.000-07:00

Well it is Wednesday what an amazing day here at Tinder Hearth. We are building an attached greenhouse! We lay in the foundation and that was complicated as we have a very old house and nothing is as it seems. None the less thanks to an amazing team we met with great success.

I meant to attach a picture yesterday of Noel's ukulele it was a gift and is so beautiful.

My new favorite You Tube video

Hawaiian Ukulele lesson with Puna Keli'iho'omalu

What a voice. I am beat tonight ukulelelake signiing out.

http://murphyproductions.com/html/fall%20series/postermusic/undecided.htm

2009-10-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

Bill Tapia in Larkspur. California Saturday November 21, 2009 8pm

Obsessed with Ukulele! Notes from Mainely Ukulele Guild

2009-10-20T16:44:00.000-07:00

Hello out there in blogger world. This Ukeblog is hosted by yours truly Lake

and Micca my cohort.

We are two obsessed ukulele players.
We have been playing up a ukulele storm here in Maine. You can follow the Mainely Ukulele Guild antics if you so choose and see pictures at http://www.mainelyukulele.org">

Most of the time we play our Ukuleles and perform at the infamous Open Mic at The Valley of Stars Center in Brooksville Maine home of the www.Tinder Hearth Wood Fired Bakery check us out.

We started teaching ukulele this summer and that was a blast. We forgot to take pictures!!! So now we know better.

Fall classes are starting and this is going to help us grope through the looooong winter days of Maine. We have a nice group of ukulele lovers in our group. From 10 to ???? in ages. We wouldn't want to give all our secrets away.

We are starting the Mainely Ukulele Guild finally!! This will be a ukulele party twice a month which will be a venue for us to go wild on our ukuleles.

Micca and I have been jonesen' to go to a Uke festival. We hemmed and hawed about the Nova Scotia festival, but now we have decided to host a festival next summer here in Maine!!!! So look out for that.

Well we love Aldrine from Ukulele Underground!

I have been on a Ukulele learning adventure taking Jazz Ukulele lessons from Mark A. Occhioneroo . These lessons take place on Skype, well that is interesting to say the least.
Mark is a blast he is a Scientist and I am a Blues Bass player so you can imagine the combination. He thinks in a world that most of us don't even have a glimpse of. I am on a mission to open that door. He is a brilliant player and has a Ukulele collection to die for. Well not exactly to crave for.

Micca and I went to Portland to see Jake Shimabukuro play at One Longfellow Square.

What a performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such an intimate venue. Everyone was so close to Jake! The setting was perfect. Jake was so gracious. We lucked out big time to be so close to the virtuoso.

WE ARE TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN!

At any rate back home here in northern Maine we had a big fun surprise when Noel Stookey of Peter Paul and Mary, a friend of Micca's sent us this brilliant video of 5'2".
This could be a big time new career for Paul don't you Ukulele lovers think?

Well tune in for more ukulele insights. Peace up