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- Star of the County Down for high G ukulele – with slurs and strums February 3, 2026
- We Shall Overcome on high G ukulele January 19, 2026
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- FAQ: how to get started on the ukulele December 28, 2025
- Snow White Waltz for high G ukulele December 15, 2025
- Harp on Arpeggio December 9, 2025
- Intro to Arpeggio December 9, 2025
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- About Pick Pluck Play! December 7, 2025
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- Annual Holiday Party – ukulele clubs in Boston and London December 2, 2025
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March 2026 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Recent Posts: Concert Blog
Fingerstyle Ukulele for Beginners: Reviews and Insights
My first ukulele book in a new series on Amazon will be released in mid-October. Read the advance reviews from published and established ukulele composers.
REVIEW: My Fair Lady in Galveston
What’s the next best thing to seeing the musical “My Fair Lady” ? Get invited backstage, meet the band and production staff, and attend the dress rehearsal.
REVIEW: Loveless, Texas
Anne Ku reviews “Loveless, Texas” a concert presentation in Galveston, Texas of the musical first debut in New York
Writing music every day
What happens when you start writing music every single day?
REVIEW: Discovering Fingerstyle Ukulele Songbook by Colin Tribe
Colin Tribe’s new book offers new possibilities for ukulele players who aspire to fingerpick their way through thirty of the most popular songs of all time. These chord melody arrangements show a variety of ways the high G ukulele can be used for instrumental solo or duet (such as chord accompaniment and melodic fingerpicking) . […]
Tag Archives: sing
Three Chord Thursday at Three: Lesser Known Songs
Suggest a not so well known song that’s three chords or easy to play for this one hour song session in Zoom on July 23, 2020 Continue reading
Three Chord Thursdays at Three: one word titled songs
So many songs with only one word in their titles but how many are truly three chords and interesting to play? No proper nouns, hence no names of people or places. Not done in previous Thursday sessions. Continue reading
Three Chord Thursday: locations
Songs about location for a virtual song session in Zoom on Thursday July 2, 2020 free for anyone anywhere in the world to participate as performer or muted participant Continue reading
Three Chord Thursdays at Three: 60’s Hits
We are spoiled for choice when it comes to three chord songs in the sixties, the era of flower children and free love. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Kinks “invaded” America as The Beach Boys spewed out surfer … Continue reading
Global Karaoke Party: British Invasion
Every monthly, global karaoke party is a two-hour song session in ZOOM whereby you can choose a song to sing or get someone else to sing. Each one has a theme. Sunday June 21st is British Invasion. Continue reading
Songs in the Time of Corona: make it count!
For Friday May 8th, 2020 at 4 pm EDT, in the Songs in the Time of Corona series, consider that we are always counting and tracking the number of days in the lock down, the number of cases, the number … Continue reading
Three Chord Thursdays at Three: Boys Names
On Thursday April 23rd, 2020, about 30 participants from Hawaii to Italy gathered online in ZOOM to sing and play the ukulele. The theme for this one-hour session was songs of names of boys or guys, as the previous one … Continue reading
How to remember music intervals and why
Anyone who wants to sing a song by reading music notes will need to be able to identify the intervals (i.e. distance between notes) and how they should sound. Unless you have perfect, a.k.a. absolute, pitch, you will need to reference … Continue reading