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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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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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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).
Tags: Irish Eyes, Ukester Brown, ukulele, ukulele ireland
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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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.”
Tags: Al Woodshed, the irish washerwoman, Ukehunt, ukeireland, ukulele
There are many wonderful YouTubes of the wonderful Cliff Edwards, the first international ukulele star, but I came across this one recently (thanks Ukehunt) .
Cliff Edwards was one the most popular entertainers of his day. He was a star in Vaudeville and on Broadway in the 1920s and made a successful transition to film in the 1930s. He was a reliable character actor who appeared in dozens of movies including classics like Gone With The Wind and His Girl Friday, although, sadly, he didn’t play his uke in those two. He also performed the original version of the song “Singin’ in the Rain” in 1929. Perhaps his most famous role was as Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio, where he sang the lovely “When You Wish Up On A Star.” This clip from the 1933 short Hollywood on Parade perfectly showcases his irreverent, goofy and slightly manic performing style.
Tags: Cliff Edwards, ireland, ukulele, Ukulele Ike. ukeireland
Stunning singer and uke player Heidi Talbot (family lives in Newbridge, Co. Kildare) who I saw playing support to the magical Eddie Reader in Dublin last night.
Heidi is just a wonderful singer and here she is accompanied by the very talented
John McCusker, Chris Drever And Boo Hewerdine.
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