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October 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) . […]
Author Archives: Anne Ku
Previous ukulele workshops and courses
In keeping with my natural inclination to not throw anything away in case I may need it in the future, here are courses that I have given previously.
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
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
About Anne Ku
Anne Ku is a musician who shares her music in her blog posts on her website and on social media. Here is her journey. Continue reading
Feedback, testimonials, what others said
Visit the UKULELE tab to get feedback from my students.
Teaching
November 19, 2019 17:00 EST Boston, Massachusetts Another PAGE whose contents are shoved into a blog post so I can free up my website for what I’m currently doing. Yes, I still teach.
Energy: electricity, electric vehicles
Energy: electricity, electric vehicles links relevant articles and material on this subject, project directed by Anne Ku on Maui Continue reading
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
Mauro Giuliani Polonoise or Polonaise from Op. 65
Should it be “polonoise” as printed on the title page of the sheet music or “polonaise” as we know it?
Of guitar quartets and ensemble playing
In January 2018, I started a new ukulele group and joined the Boston Guitar Orchestra. For the latter, I begged the conductor to translate the notated sheet music for guitar part four into tablature so that I could read it. … Continue reading