Thankyou! the Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival Would Like to Thank
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Thankyou! The Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival would like to thank all those who help to make this great festival happen; • The Blue Mountains Ukulele Group, • Our venues including the Carrington Hotel, the Blue Welcome to the sixth annual Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival. This year, with the festival being on the weekend of both Mountains Cultural Centre Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day, we have gone with the theme of “spooky love”. Our festival has never been bigger, with over 120 acts across 9 stages. You can see acts ranging from pop, to folk, to jazz, to punk, to classical. Take the and the Paragon Cafe time to scan our program and plan your time to catch as many of our great acts as you can. We hope you have a great time here in the beautiful Blue Mountains. • Our artists and graphic Our festival is free. This is a point of pride to us as we want as many people as possible to access the joy that is the designers ukulele. We would like to thank all of our sponsors their support is vital to the continued existence of our festival. We encourage you to seek out our sponsors and support them as they have supported us. We have a fantastic raffle with • Most of all, the volunteers, some great prizes this year, so c’mon catch up with out our raffle ticket sellers and buy some tickets. Who knows, you might get lucky! We also have a wide range of Festival merchandise. This year you can buy items including t-shirts, who give up their time to help stubby holders and lapel pins. Make sure you check out our merchandise tables and take home some stuff to help you make sure everyone has a remember the great times you had here at the (still free!) Sixth Annual Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival. You will find a donation box on each stage. If you enjoy your time here at the festival, think about putting some money in. You will be great time. helping our volunteers (no-one organising this amazing event is getting paid), helping cover our bills and making sure that we can continue to do this year after year. The Blue Mountains Ukulele Group would like to thank all the performers who are playing this year. We know that you The Carrington Hotel Marquee The Carrington Hotel Ballroom The Baroque Nightclub The Old City Bank Bar The Carrington Hotel Dining Room The Blue Mountains Sunday - Performances Time Blue Mountains Tourism Stage Helloworld Stage Champion Financial Stage Jack's Music Stage Lanikai Ukulele Stage Cultural Centre The Carrington Hotel Marquee 9:30 Official Opening Time Blue Mountains Tourism Stage 10:00 The Yorkuleles The Blue Street Band Uke East Big Band - Eastern Suburbs 10:00 Strum Along – From the Ukulele Club Songbook Ukulele Club 10:30 And Your Bird Can Sing 10:30 Lapstone Public School Bums: Anything Goes Ukestral Voices 11:00 Strum Along – From the Ukulele Club Songbook 11:00 Mookulele - Warrimoo Public School Charles and Yolanda The Three Sisters Andrew Smith Los Trios Towradgi Jim Wenman and Adam Robinson 11:30 Ohana 11:30 Uke-alypts 30 minutes with Irving Berlin.... Feisty Ukes Wildcard Let It Ring Loveridge 'N' Son 12:00 Strum Along – From the Ukulele Club Songbook 12:00 The Swingaleles Frankly My Dear Hand Cuffed and Tasered Biff McGee The Chordbusters Wildcard 12:30 Rose Turtle Ertler 12:30 SHUG Mirrabooka Hornsby Berowra Ukelele Club Cameron Murray The Lost Wanderers Mr and Mrs Favours 01:00 Strum Along – From the Ukulele Club Songbook 01:00 Lightly Strung Orchestra THE THREE Song-Breros 80's One Hit Wonders Big Bamboo Too Albion Park Aristocrats Mark Jackson and Jane Jelbart 01:30 Vinylz 01:30 DoUG RIVERLELE Dennis Aubrey Shopworkers Freestyle Ukulele au Go Go Plastered Bastard Sisters 02:00 Strum Along – From the Ukulele Club Songbook 02:00 mUKEas Rough Diamonds The Clarileles Andy Dyson Cover Sheets Gollagher Ross 02:30 Paddy McGinty and the Ukulele Shillelagh's 02:30 The Shire-leles James Newbold - Classical Ukulele The Honey Drippin' Mudskippers Wildcard Grazing Hawley/Chips and Salad Ohana 03:00 Ukastle Ukestra Strum'n Jen and frenz Grandma Schneider and Her Dave Favours Rob & Tay The Brothers Saturday Workshops – The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Orthopeedics 03:30 URoC (Ukulele Republic of Canberra) The Songbook South Pacific Echo Nick Paisley John Tubridy Close Stage 10:00 - Busking – Dennis Aubrey: 04:00 Uke Junction (Part of the Uke East Joy Boyz CSUkes - Charles Sturt University Ranger John does the two Hanks. ANZUKES Dennis Aubrey started busking in 1973. For many years he busked outside venues like the Hordern Pavilion at 'Family") ukulele group concerts all around the country, hitch hiking a quarter of a million miles in the process. Dennis will share the secrets of how to get more of those precious gold nuggets in your ukulele case and how to get 04:30 Vice Squad The Jumping Fleas Shoalhaven Jamarama Ukulele All Robyn Rottinger The TruFFles the best value out of the considerable effort required to be a successful street performer. Stars 11:00 - Alternate Tunings Workshop – Dean Newbold: 05:00 Central Coast Ukulele Club Wildcard Blue Mystics Rose Turtle Ertler Close Stage "I know how to play all the chords in the book. Now what?" "I would like to write some songs, but I keep going to the same 3 chords." If either of these sounds like you, then you might want to try some different tunings. Let's face 05:30 West Ryde Ukes The Shining Wits Po'aha Champagne Tastes it; you have 8 ukuleles in the house; why would you have them all in the same tuning? Alternate tunings can break 06:00 Macarthur Uke-a-Lips Little Black Ducks SHAZ IN THE 60s Sue Stenning Have you discovered old habits and open up new worlds for you to explore. 06:30 Lady And The Groove The Helen Kellys Three Gs Willem Roorda 12:00 - Homework (Home Recording Workshop) – Adam Robinson: the Boulder Creek This workshop will cover the basics of how to use recording software. The examples in the workshop will use Apple 07:00 Clarence Hirakawa Fourte Uke Caramba! Aubrey and Purton Mystery Stage – You GarageBand (which runs on Mac and iPad/iPhone) but we’ll talk about Windows and Android as well. I don’t plan to 07:30 The Daisy Ukes The Stolen Ukulele Players Northern River Uke Orchestra Bird n Beast get into lots of deep technical discussion. The aim is to get people to the point where they can start experimenting 08:00 The Angry Townsfolk Vinylz U King Orchestra BIRTH may be in for a with recording their music. 1:00 - Beginners – (Ukulele John) John Chandler: 08:30 Miss Amber and Stukulele Jazz Hands The Filthy Lukers Cosmic Space Warriors surprise as to how it An introduction to take you from a complete beginner through basic fundamentals, tips and techniques. You will 09:00 The Leichhardt International Ukestra U3+1 Close Stage Duke and the Dragan have a concept of chords, ukulele song sheets, basic strums and the confidence and ability to join with others to works strum your favourite tunes. Experience the fun of the ‘happiest instrument there is’. 09:30 Tyrone & Lesley Jack, Jel and Danielle Jim Fishwick . 1:45 - One Note Samba! Aye Karumba - Cath (Jazz Hands) McCourt: 10:00 The Blue Mugs Close Stage Close Stage If you would like to drift into a new challenge of different shaped chords then Jazz is for you, where it starts and where it ends is always a mystery and it makes you want for more (and a bit of lead thrown in) plus techniques how to strum to a different beat. It will help if you already know your basic chords and can form Bar Chords as Jazz is Please join with the Blue MUGs to acknowledge and send a special thankyou to all the performers mostly that up and down the neck, hope to see you there. From Jazz Hands 2:45 - Staging your Songs - David Megarrity: OK. You’ve got the songs down. The next step is to present your music in a way that’ll help it leap off the stage. Work and play with David Megarrity (Tyrone and Lesley) to outline a few principles to shape and frame your material for who come along each year to make the Festival such a wonderful community event. performance. Warning: may include content that seems obvious, but that nobody ever seems to mention. 30 minutes with Irving Berlin....A "30 minute" bio of Irving Berlin, punctuated Katoomba. Clarence is known as the best ukulele player in Japan, and has Jim Wenman and Adam Robinson - Jim will present the best of his own The Northern Rivers Uke Orchestra - pride themselves on their instrumental The Chordbusters - have a repertoire that stretches from bluegrass to jazz to U King Orchestra - A slightly off beat group of Elvis impersonators who won’t with songs from his repertoire performed by some of my friends played at the Ukulele festival in Honolulu, Hawaii for many years. music compositions composed on the Ukulele, Jim has written poetry for all his arrangements and original tunes. After being an open group for over 2 years bigband with a uke with pretty well every tune more than 50 years old. The be giving up their day jobs. As seen in Memphis and Parkes (Not performing 80's One Hit Wonders - One hit wonders from the 80s (plus a few others). Cosmic Space Warriors - Cosmic Loopz life and in recent years has been turning some of his poems into songs.