Fred Goossens of the Winin’ Boys leads the busk in a surprise stop at one of the tall ships on Dun Laoghaires East pier. Great Stuff!
(video: Eden Brower)
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The very lively and rockin’ Gypsy Rebel Rabble will be opening up the big concert in the People’s Park on Sunday as part of Ukulele Hooley By The Sea
They’re on at the start @ 12.30 so make sure you don’t miss ‘em!
Love these young guys from Dublin The Original Rudeboys – they’ve rightly started making waves over the past year. Good lyric writers. Check out their Youtube channel
Tags: original rude boys, Uke, ukulele
It’s not hard to see how love of the ukulele has spread, here is Singto Numchok and friends just having a cool easy evening doodling away on their ukes on a beach. Singto is playing one of his own songs.
Lovely easy performance….
and another nice uke performance…..
No matter what the weathers like where you are, this is officially summer here in Ireland, (at least it was today!) so we’ve gotta have a summer ukulele song so how about this? “Summer Vibe” by “Walk off the Earth”.
Walk off the Earth are a Canadian indie band formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario. The band’s cover of Gotye’s ”Somebody That I Used to Know” using only one guitar went viral in early 2012 and gained over 124 million hits onYouTube.
Tags: Imelda May Ukulele, ireland, summer vibe, Uke, ukeireland, ukulele, ukulele ireland, walk off the earth
Beautiful version of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” played by ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. It was recorded two years ago but came across it again today so here it is
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Ukulele Hooley, Ireland’s ukulele festival is gearing up for its 3rd year and is happening on the weekend of August 18/19th in Dun Laoghaire (with the support of Dun Laoghaire & Rathdown County Council).
Its shaping up to be a great weekend of ukulele workshops, jams, open mics, and a fantastic line up of artists from both sides of the Atlantic. There is a lot more exciting stuff to be announced yet (including more artists tba) so mark the dates in your diary now!
The website is now live but there is a lot more information to be announced, so keep checking ukulelehooley.com for updates.
Tags: Uke, uke ireland, ukulele, ukulele hooley ireland
Levon Helm’s wonderful voice and drumming provided many of the great musical moments to the soundtrack of many of our lives. Levon died on Thursday April 19th and he will be be sadly missed.
He sang so many great songs but the one that has a special significance for ukulele players in Ireland is “Ophelia”.
Its in our songbook and is one of the featured numbers by the Ukeristic Congress.
Sing on Levon…
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