Shukulele goes to 2015 Uke Jam at CCAE

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

Another great session with Danno Sullivan.

Ukulele in Weston

Ukelele strikes a major chord among all ages

Norman Nichols plays his part at Weston’s Council on Aging class.

By Steve MaasGLOBE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Outside on this particular Tuesday afternoon, the temperature was stuck in the 20s. But inside, it was a different story.

“Summer camp for old people,” said Arthur Goldstein, before quickly correcting himself. “Older people.”

It was the weekly ukulele class in the Weston Council on Aging’s quarters on Alphabet Lane, where up to 15 or so enthusiastic pluckers polished renditions of songs ranging from “Amazing Grace” to “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby.”

power of the ukulele

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/though-it-be-little-the-rise-of-the-ukulele/384453/ 

The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Ukulele

The little instrument has gone from being an exotic new trend to the embodiment of kitsch since it arrived on Hawaii 125 years ago, but is currently enjoying a revival.

Marion Jacobson Jan 25 2015, 8:30 AM ET

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With its chunk-a-chunk sound, whispery nylon strings, and diminutive body, the ukulele is having a moment. Or maybe even a decade. Zooey Deschanel strums one while crooning sweetly with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Tony Blair disrupts Labour Party conventions with one. When Eddie Vedder impulse-bought one on a trip to Hawaii, he was compelled to record a whole album of Ukulele Songs. (It won a Grammy, of course.) And then a Hawaiian ukulele prodigy played a Beatles cover in Central Park, and the video went viral—but more on that later.

universal instruments - mouth trumpet

Victoria is featured in both WSJ
 http://www.wsj.com/video/mouth-trumpet-makes-a-comeback/79B7B00F-EFA4-4672-A6FA-36ED4174D837.html

and UUOB -- she has been to Boston area in events listed under the
Ukulele Union of Boston (741 members today)
http://www.meetup.com/BostonUke/messages/67788612/

and Victoria has her own "how to"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-GvNmeQ5Q

and another "how to"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prjbz4eD4BY

Music: on the inside

https://www.bostonconservatory.edu/music/karl-paulnack-welcome-address

Got this from Linda today. It is a welcome to an entering class at the Boston Conservatory, both students and their parents.  "...music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us."  Enjoy !

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Karl Paulnack Welcome Address
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One of my parents' deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn't be appreciated. I had very good grades in high school, I was good in science and math, and they imagined that as a doctor or a research chemist or an engineer, I might be more appreciated than I would be as a musician. I still remember my mother's remark when I announced my decision to apply to music school—she said, "you're wasting your SAT scores!" On some level, I think, my parents were not sure themselves what the value of music was, what its purpose was. And they loved music: they listened to classical music all the time. They just weren't really clear about its function. So let me talk about that a little bit, because we live in a society that puts music in the "arts and entertainment" section of the newspaper, and serious music, the kind your kids are about to engage in, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with entertainment, in fact it's the opposite of entertainment. Let me talk a little bit about music, and how it works.

One of the first cultures to articulate how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you: the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works.

Salvation Army 2014

Bell Ringing and Noise Making with the Salvation Army

Stella's 100th

Celebrating 100th birthday and holiday songs for Stella on Dec 21st.