Uke Ireland & Ukuhooley Blog

No excuse ever needed to watch Loudon Wainwright and here is he in New York’s Madison Sq.Park last year singing “On to Victory Mr. Roosevelt”
Love the man!

Keith was playing his wonderful uke version of Irving Berlin’s “Walking Stick” (as played by Leon Redbone) at the last Shebeen Open Mic and both Shay Bagnall and I seperately, asked him for the chords and this was Keith’s generous response, He did this really helpful video tutorial and posted it on YouTube and it has been picked up by one one of the top ukulele sites “UkeToob.com“.

Always like to feature ukeIreland forum friends videos, this is singer/songwriter Garret Baker. Garret can be seen round Dublin and pops up at the “Shebeen” from time to time.

Barry Whiteside took to the uke the way a duck takes to water and its fair to say he is probably one of the world’s biggest enthusiast for the little “four stringed wonder”! But here he is demonstrating Shelley Rickey’s “Diddley Bow”, a one stringed instrument that looks good fun!
Barry has given generously of his time to share his love and ukulele knowledge through the 11am UkuHooley uke class each month and his cheerful and friendly approach has made him many friends throughout the ukulele community in Ireland and abroad. Barry is heading off to London in September to spread his ukulele wings a bit so we will all miss him but with the internet and Ryanair we will be staying in touch.
It would be great if “Barry’s” ukulele class could come along to the UkuHooley 2nd Birthday on August 14th to help give him a send off!

Check out Barrys videos on his YouTube page:

The sheer enjoyment of what they are doing just jumps out at you from this wonderful performance by these two young boys from Hawaii !

Watch out World – Kazuki & Naoto are coming!

This is Veronica & The Red Wine serenaders – Veronica Sbergia, Max De Bernardi, Alessandra Cecala, special guest Andrea Sirna. Concerto al Circolo Arci Corvetto Aprile 2010

We saw Veronica & Max together at the Belgium Ukulele Festival in May 2009 and they were (and are) a real joy.

Don’t know how I missed this video of “the Sick & Indigent” playing in Tower Records last Autumn for the launch of their album “Punch Drunk”
Great songs and performances from Gary Fitzpatrick on guitar etc and Angie McLaughlin on Uke.
Go and see them!

King Kukulele is a very talented ukulele player and entertainer extraordinaire and he is appearing at the Odessa Club
(next door to the Shebeen’s backdoor!) on Tuesday evening June 15th at 8pm.
I think this this is his second visit to Dublin and Nora Artola who saw him ( Nora knows her uke players!) wrote the following
“My mate Paul has organised the king in the Odessa on the 15th of june… I saw him a few years back in the international with
the whole band and it was just great! A bit of an event… and Justine will be supporting him……
The admission is just 8 euros…..As its not often we have visiting uke players performing in Dublin – here’s your chance!

Andrew managed to put down his beloved Kala Bass Uke just long enough to do this nice “Andrew” version of Fats Wallers “Ain’t Misbehaving”.