Tricity Vogue’s Ukulele Cabaret
Tricity Vogue’s Ukulele Cabaret are doing a show at the fringe festival.
It’s free and I suggest that we arrange a night where we can all go along? There’s open mic too if anyone fancies a turn. What say you all? I could make the 16th or 23rd, although the 23rd is getting rather close to our due date and the 16th is a ukearist. We could always relocate the ukearist for the night, with an hour of strumming at the usual place first?
The Kist entered for Loanhead Songwriting Comp – 12th June
After their stunning success at the Folk Club Songwriting competition, Dave, Jane, Yvonne & Jim are entering the Kist into the songwriting competition at the Loanhead Music Festival. It will be this Saturday, June 12, between 14:00 and 16:00 at Loanhead Miners Welfare. As far as I know adnission is free.
http://www.loanheadfest.webeden.co.uk/
Hope to see many of you down there!
Frisbee Tournament Gig – 14th August
We have been invited back to play the headlining spot at this year’s MacBeach Ultimate Frisbee tournament over in Troon. It was fantastic fun last year, we had about 10 of us all in fancy dress (Tim’s clown costome was the pick of the bunch!) ukin’ it up good and proper – ask anyone who went it was awesome fun! Got a great response and the whole weekend was a lot of fun!
The gig will be on the evening of 14th August, we can camp over there and I think there will be a free beer or two.
So who’s up for it? Unfortunately I can’t commit to it myself due to our baby being due around that time so I’m looking for volunteers to organise things, anyone willing?
Ukearist shop now open!
I have set up a zazzle shop where you can now buy various bits of ukearist merchandise and apparel such as t-shirts, mugs, aprons, mouse mats etc.
The address for the shop is: www.zazzle.co.uk/jhob101
Let me know if you buy anything, I’d be interested to know what you think of it.
Ukulele Club of Virginia Songbook
The Ukulele Club of Virginia have just produced a massive songbook and made it available to everyone for free. Why not take a look through and see if there’s any songs you fancy trying at the ukearist. Just print of 15 or so copies of your chosen song and bring them along, always fun to have new songs to try!
You can also download individual word files of the songs.
It’s Official!! Award-Winning Ukearists!!
Just back from the Edinburgh Folk Club Annual Song Writing Competition where our very own Yvonne, David, Jane and Jim’s song The Kist was performed for a discerning panel of judges and audience.
Both the official Judges and the audience voted The Kist 2nd place!
Well done!!
(Yvonne even mentioned the Monday Ukearist in the introduction to the song and the compere has dubbed us the Ukulele Orchestra of Leith! Make of that what you will!)
And here’s a video of the performance:
Diddley Bows!
Ok, so it’s not ukuleles but is certainly in the spirit of ukuleles and follows on from the cigar box ukuleles I made a while back. My brother and I made bass diddley bows on Saturday, on Sunday we wrote and recorded a diddley bow song about diddley bows and here it is!
Ukearist Folk Performing next Wednesday
Ukearist members Yvonne Hynd, Jane Henniker, David Foggo and Jill Shepherd, will be performing their song, “The Kist”, in the Edinburgh Folk Club, songwriting competition on Wednesday 19th May, in the Pleasance Caberet Bar. The song was written over the past four months by Yvonne, Jane and David, and also by Jim Barr. Jim made a major contribution to the writing of this song.
The show starts at 8pm and should finish around 11pm. We will not know where we are in the running order until the night. All support much appreciated there are prizes for first second and third place awarded by the judges and also a special cup awarded to the song that gets the most votes from the audience. Here’s a map of where it will be. Go through the arch and caberet bar is at the back of the courtyard on the left.
Another UK uke festival – October 2010
Greetings Folks!
This may be a bit premature as we don’t actually have details yet ….
but UK Uke festivals are worth noting any time of year!
http://www.wukulelefestival.com/
Keep an eye on this space. Anyone fancy a trip to Worthing (West Sussex) in October, then?
Are You Britain’s Best Undiscovered Music Act?
We have been contacted by Princess Productions about a new TV talent show that they are working on. They are looking for undiscovered musical talent across the country and are hoping to find talented musicians including singers, bands and people that play instruments. They’re hoping some really talented uke players will be interested! Here’s the details if anyone’s interested:
Are You Britain’s Best Undiscovered Music Act?
If the answer is ‘YES’ then we want to meet you…
We are looking for acts of all ages and all genres for a brand new prime-time TV music talent show – and as long as you can sing or play music (or both), then you’re in.
Solo artists, musicians, bands, groups and choirs of all sizes are welcome to audition. For the winner, there is a prize of a lifetime.
For more information, and to register your interest email us now and include a daytime contact number.
