What do you get when you get ukulele players to play in what used to be the oldest chocolate factory in the country?
“Say chocolate. Say ukulele. Cross chocolate and ukulele and you get choco-lele.” That’s what I said to a group of seniors at my last concert when I introduced the new 2019 Choco-lele Holiday Songbook. Here is our story.
I wrote about starting my own ukulele club — it was a big thing. I chronicled it.
Welcome to the grassroots initiative to introduce ukulele to the part of Boston around the Neponset River, also known as Historic Lower Mills, home of the oldest chocolate factory in the USA. With the support of Ukulele Union of Boston (UUoB), we launched our first jam session on the night of the Super Full Blood Moon in 2018 and have welcomed all ages to our workshops (age 5 to 80). We announce these meet-ups on the UUoB Meetup Website which is free to register and join.
The Choco-leles or Chocoleles, the ukulele group based in Historic Lower Mills, home of the oldest chocolate factory in the USA, which is located on the border of Dorchester and Milton, Massachusetts.
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MENTIONED IN THE NEWS:
- Listen to the Music: The Choco-leles from Lower Mills, 29 October 2018
- Holiday Stroll at Walter Baker Lofts Presents Singalong with Ukulele 24th November 2018
- New Deal for Holiday Stroll in Lower Mills: Ukuleles (Dorchester Reporter, 20th November 2018)
- The Milton Times (November and December 2018)
- Chronicle TV, January 2019
- Choco-leles at Lower Mills Library, March 14th 2019
- Choco-leles at Forbes House Museum, Milton, MA – 7th April 2019
Holiday Stroll in Historic Lower Mills, November 2018
Click below for videos from the recent Second Annual Milton Porchfest:
- Charlie on the MTA
- Bye Bye Love
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game –
- Pearly Shells – with Atsuko, hula dancing
- Hey Good Lookin’
- If I Only Had a Brain
Our very first gig – June 2018: