Goma DRC

Patrick Maxwell on the slopes of Mt Nyragongo, a live volcano near Goma, DR Congo, playing his ukelele and wearing a very special shirt.

Hey Good Lookin'

Guy in sunglasses is Jim, brother of Mike Monahan,  formerly of the Starbucks coffee gathering.  Mike moved to FL and warmer pastures, and sent this link just this week.

ice bucket

Our own ice bucket challenge:  Sally Shukong, Bill, and Liz

free music

free, as in at least free for your personal use - 
http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/free-sheet-music.html 
many resources for downloadable music in the public domain

Something to work on while we're in different places all summer --

Okay July is officially over.

Found a great resource in the Bedford Ukulele Group ( the original one, in UK) http://bedfordukulelegroup.co.uk/ 

Tons of music in a nice format http://bedfordukulelegroup.co.uk/page3.html 

All the chords you will (hopefully) ever need:  http://bedfordukulelegroup.co.uk/chords_v4s.pdf    Good to keep a copy for your practice book 

Their 2013 Christmas book is excellent -  http://bedfordukulelegroup.co.uk/BUG%20xmas%20book%202013.pdf 

Separately, Silent Night (picking tab) http://bedfordukulelegroup.co.uk/silent-night%20Picking%20Tab.pdf   -- If you don't know what the "tab" means, talk to me or ask around, once you know how to read it, it will be very handy.

Page 4 of the AYB songbook http://bedfordukulelegroup.co.uk/ayb_song_dance%20book.pdf is a wonderful rendition of "Aint She Sweet",  note the tuning is not GCEA, but the finger positions are curiously familiar.  If you have a capo and clamp it on the second fret, that is the banjolele tuning ...    The first four lines (16 measures of "intro" might make a nice intro for us as well,  just need to try it out).

Finally on page 6 of the AYB songbook, a suggestion from Sally, "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" --

The PDF  of the uke chords is the last one listed in the "C"s --  http://www.shukulele.com/c.html  and a link to a youtube for the melody.  

Shukulele joins the 2014 Uke jam

At the Cambridge Center for Adult Education.

Validated parking is $6 at the Charles Hotel lot (bring your event ticket).

bang on the ukulele all day !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvLO2E4yMUc




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A bit of history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Long_Year