[ANNONCE]
L'association Le CUTE organise le Festival d'Ukulele de Toulouse et Alentours les 30 septembre et 1er octobre prochains !
Au programme : concerts, masterclasses, scènes ouvertes, uku-chorales, etc...
Venez nombreux !
Infos & billetterie sur https://le-cute.fr/festival/ #Toulouse#Ukulele#futal2023
One of the things on my to-do list is to post a personal #introduction and today is the day that I will cross that off!
You can call me Sherry. I love to laugh, and am very joyful and fun overall. Wife to one man, mom to one daughter, and grandma. Owner of 2 #parrots and 2 #dogs (1 of which is my #ServiceDog). We live in a 5th wheel in the midst of one of Michigan's Amish communities on a secluded lot in a beautiful area. BA in #music - currently love playing my #Tyros5 and my small #ukulele collection. Use my music to worship #Jesus, am a #Bible believing #Christian living out the Scriptures 24/7 by holding God's hand throughout my life, failing only when I let go. Always aware I am His vessel. “Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent” (Thomas Campbell) is how I deal with most things. A strong conservative politically, I choose to focus instead on the eternal rather than the temporal in my relationships, online and off, and on loving those that God puts in my path, meeting them where THEY are. Love to cook, and eat to minimize the effects of my disabilities as much as I can since 2004. For me that's been #lowcarb and/or #keto and/or #ketovore and/or #carnivore almost exclusively. Been using social media since my #Compuserve and local #BBS days in the 80s, and my interest remains strong to these #Fediverse times because meeting interesting people is such a delight and joy!
Patience eventually pays off when it comes to the secondhand book market. This hefty (400+ pages) paperback is a collected reprint of old Hawaiian ukulele method, including songs to play. It generally sells for entirely unreasonable sums.
Luckily, a rolling search eventually returned a copy at a very fair price, which arrived this morning. Terrific condition too, not even a crease on the spine! One bumped corner is the extent of the wear and tear.
“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?”
(I've seen "ukalele" and "ukelele" in print before, but this is a new one to me. Saves on printers' ink, I suppose. The picture was posted on the Ukulele Underground forum by Jerryc41 earlier today and I'm pinching it).
The wind today
Is strong and relentless
Throws dust in the air
Blows trash against fences
Puts grit in your teeth
And deadens your senses
The wind today
Is strong and relentless
Hold on
When the wind blows like that
Hold on
You better hold on to your hat
First track in the can! Danny Gotham and I are hoping to release our new album sometime in late summer. Mostly acoustic instruments, #mandolin, #classical and steel string #guitar, #ukulele, #lute, a little electric guitar and lap steel, too. Nice variety of material, too! Big honor to get to do this with Danny, who’s one of the best pickers this side of the Mississippi.
My new book is out today, with arrangements of five famous classical pieces for a "ukulele quartet" of soprano, tenor and baritone ukuleles and classical guitar. The arrangements have been deliberately kept simple, to be accessible to the widest range of players. Find out more or get your copy in print or as a pay-what-you-like ebook at https://preecemusic.com/simple-ukulele-quartets
I restringed it and tied some thinner nylon cord as frets, like you would tie gut frets on lutes. They're roo sliperry to stay in place but I think it's starting to sound more palatable and I can play chords now!
(Tuning is mandolin's GDEA)