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Happy New Year 2015!
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas everyone, we’ve had a fun time this year, and many thanks to all who’ve made our Ver Players Christmas performances go so well!
Video of our Christmas events:
Christmas sing-along at the Courtyard Café.
Solo spots at the Hare & Hounds Christmas session.
In the meantime, have a great holiday, happy ukeing, and here is a little Christmas carol for you:
Join us this Christmas!
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We are doing two Christmas Sing-Alongs this year, featuring all our favourite seasonal songs, – it’s FREE – come along and join in – all welcome!
7.00pm 14th December 2014
The Hare & Hounds 104 Sopwell Lane, St Albans AL1 1RL
12 noon 20th December 2014
The Courtyard Café 11 Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 3RR
It was a lot of fun last year – take a look!
Jug Band songs
In preparation for Del Rey’s workshop on 26th October we ran some JUG BAND NIGHTS for everyone coming. Take a look on our Del Rey page.
Beer and ukuleles
We had a lot of fun at the www.sonofsid.co.uk beer festival again this year, providing our brand of ukulele entertainment on Friday night!
Here’s the band on the night
and on practise night
yesterday’s Super Simple Song
Carol correctly guessed via Facebook yesterday’s Super Simple Song
was: ‘Hit the Road Jack’ by Ray Charles – well done!
http://www.verplayers.org.uk/2014/09/01/super-simple-song/
Here’s how those 4 chords sound:
Another Hula Doll Award to the winner!
Super simple song
Marvel at how simple a song can be, this big hit, just repeats these 4 chords throughout. Can you guess what it is? Just play 2 downstrokes for each chord. The usual Hula Doll Award will be presented to the winner!
New doll in the toy cupboard!
Here she is, Betty Boop (based on Helen Kane) who sung some of our favourite uke songs like ‘That’s my weakness now’ and Button up your overcoat’.
Betty Boop doll
Uke practise tip No1
Know when to stop, especially if there’s someone else in earshot.
My first ukulele belonged to my grandfather, and still bore the scars from being thrown in the fire by his exasperated wife!
Illustration from ‘Hank’s One Hour Course in Ukulele Playing’ 1925