Tag Archives: ukulele

Songs about Massachusetts and New England etc

One day I will get around to finding the song sheets and sheet music to the songs that are not linked below, for Massachusetts and New England. My ukulele club had a good run of Charlie on the MTA. August … Continue reading

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Ukulele Clubs in New England

Ukulele Clubs and Groups in New England: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, MAssachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut Continue reading

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Previous related events – ukulele

What are related events not lodged in my running list of ukulele workshops and jam sessions I organized? What someone else organized? I merely turn up? Or gather others to show up with me? What these all have in common is that … Continue reading

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Previous ukulele workshops and sessions

Since I launched my first ukulele jam session in Boston on that fateful night of the super blue blood moon in January 2018, I have been meticulously keeping an audit trail of all the jam sessions, workshops, and other events … Continue reading

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Two roads diverged in ukulele: strum vs pluck

Ukulele players today mainly exist in one of two worlds. If you go to a ukulele club, you’re most likely a hum and strum or strum and sing person. If you belong to a ukulele ensemble or ukulele orchestra, you’re … Continue reading

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Happy Fourth of July! Invitations to concerts

Happy Fourth of July! So many FREE concerts in the Boston area next week. My latest ukulele mail-out below includes a NOT FREE concert of a non-traditional string quartet from the Bay Area and my Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsals and concerts.

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Solstice at Eustis 2019

Just an idea. It rhymes. It catches on. How do we combine guitar and ukulele? One after another? Or together? At Derek Gripper’s African Music Workshop both instruments were welcomed in the same room. Everyone played together. It was one … Continue reading

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Ukulele Mailing List – latest e-mail

I keep a growing mailing list of ukulele students, peers, and others who are hugely interested in the instrument and everything about playing music together. However, I’m never sure that my emails actually reach those on my mailing list because … Continue reading

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Call and response workshop

Anne Ku gives a “call and response workshop” at the Melee Ukulele Festival in Hamilton, Massachusetts Continue reading

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The gift of a music education for yourself or Mother’s Day present

I am forever grateful to my parents for the gift of a music education. I remember my mother tirelessly driving a great distance to my piano teacher’s home off-base on Okinawa. In the hot and humid afternoon, she took a … Continue reading

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