Saturday Schedule:
- 10:30—Registration
- 11:00—Uke Emporium (until 5)
- 11:00—Workshops/Classes, Session 1
- Novelty Songs for Ukulele with Lil Rev (Upstairs)
This popular class is a fun, well-rounded workshop that provides background on the evolution of the novelty number, featuring bawdy, naughty and double-entendre examples in blues, rock, Tin Pan Alley, Borscht Belt, Irish, and sailor songs. You’ll find a good variety of simple two-, three- and four-chord tunes along with some cool circle of 5th stuff and a few Tin Pan Alley numbers for ukulele. Techniques include many cool novelty strokes including the fan stroke, the zig-zag stroke, the figure eight stroke, as well as all of the silly ukulele tricks. - Beginning Ukulele with Ron Gordon (Downstairs)
Strums, chords , and 2 songs to leave singing! Get a great foundation of skills and concepts to have a focus for your future ukulele endeavors.We’ll learn and practice the right hand rhythms that make the ukulele so bouncy, and accessible to so many genres of music.
- Novelty Songs for Ukulele with Lil Rev (Upstairs)
- 12:00—Lunch, netukework, and jam
- 1:00—Workshops/Classes, Session 2
- Key of Bb with Mark Menard (Upstairs)
The key that unlocks the whole fretboard – You know your C, F, G and Am chords. You probably know a few closed chord shapes now take it to a new level and master the whole fretboard. If you struggle with the closed E and Em chord shapes, using the key of Bb we can practice and learn these shapes thereby unlocking the whole fretboard for your playing pleasure. I don’t offer any secrets or silver bullets, but this class can lead to a practice routine and songs that lend themselves to playing these shapes so you master the whole fretboard. - Blues Ukulele (Downstairs)
How can a uke, which is so glad, be sad? We’ll answer that question and many more about the blues forms, scales, chord progressions, and strum – finger picking tools. We’ll cover two blues classics: “Every Day I Got The Blues” and “Freight Train”.
- Key of Bb with Mark Menard (Upstairs)
- 2:30—Workshops/Classes, Session 3
- Claw-Hammer Style Ukulele with Lil Rev (Upstairs)
This workshop takes an in-depth approach to learning the banjo-derived claw-hammer stroke on the ukulele. After breaking this stroke down into three, easy to understand steps; we’ll try them out on a tune that is typically played claw-hammer style. - The Classical Approach to Ukulele with Nemo
Classical guitar basics as applied to the uke , including holding and positioning the instrument, hand position, picking techniques, and learning a few “classics”.
- Claw-Hammer Style Ukulele with Lil Rev (Upstairs)
- 3:30—Open Mic and Jamming
- 5:00—Pot Luck Dinner: bring a dish, and/or drink.
- 6:30—Evening Concert, Raffle, and than jamming!