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Lisa Hannigan ~ KNOTS ~

Tony B — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:34:54 +0000

The wonderful Lisa Hannigan………..

Ukulele Hooley By The Sea (Video by Tom Allard of Cigar Box Ukulele)

Tony B — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:45:01 +0000

One of the great delights of ukulele festivals is meeting up with ukulele friends and it was wonderful to see so many at the Ukulele Hooley By The Sea. Tom Allard, an old ukulele friend from Michigan travelled all the way to Dun Laoghaire and was the life and soul of the festival!
He also made this wonderful compilation video of the festival, just enjoy!

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Ukeristic Congress News!

Tony B — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:20:20 +0000

Our good friends The Ukeristic Congress go from strength to strength, give yourself a treat, get along to one of their gigs!

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Belgium Ukulele Festival 2011

Tony B — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:04:09 +0000

Folley this……………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ukulele Boudoir Festival

Tony B — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:09:31 +0000

Much as I’d like to I can’t go to all the ukulele festivals and we had a ball at the Belgium Ukulele Festival but this one in France makes me wish I could have been there too!

Ukulele people are the best!

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Helena & Nora ~ “La Tormenta”

Tony B — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:19:14 +0000

If you’ve ever seen Helena & Nora play then you know what beautiful music they make together. Here they perform this lovely Mexican tune “La Tormenta”. Check out their page @ YouTube — Enjoy!

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When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (with verses) : Ukulele UkesterBrown

Tony B — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:04:07 +0000

Ukester Brown is a prolific ukulele player with a particular love of early 20th century songs. Here he is playing “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” (accompanied by his canary).

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Ukeristic Congress at NCH

Tony B — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:34:20 +0000

Our good friends “The Ukeristic Congress” had a great night at their concert in the National Concert Hall last Saturday. Here they are doing “Lovesick Blues”.

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The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain – Hot Lips – O2 Academy Bournemouth

Tony B — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:27:11 +0000

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“Irish Washerwoman” Ukulele Cover by Al (Ukehunt)

Tony B — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:08:06 +0000

Its St. Patrick’s Day and it seems appropriate to feature an Irish tune on ukulele but its ironic that it was down to our good friend in the the UK Al Woodshed (creator of the “Ukehunt” website) to actually post a Paddy’s Day number on YouTube.
But thats ok as Al is practically an honorary “Paddy” anyway as he provided one of the main links on a Ukehunt post that led to the setting up of Uke Ireland and the start of the Irish Uke Community.
So here he is playing the “Irish Washerwoman” and the tabs can be found on the Ukehunt website :

Al says
“Quite tricky to play this one. The first section is made up of campanella bits on G and Am (5450) mixed with short runs. For the runs in both sections it’s worth using pinkie, ring and middle for fretting. It’s a stretch in some places much makes it easier to set up for the chords.

My picking in this video is, I’ll admit, a mess. I use my thumb, index and middle and move them between strings. It’d be better to allocate one finger to each string in the campanella parts. Also, I used just my middle finger to pick the runs. It’d make it easier to speed up if you used index, middle, index in a running-man motion.”

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