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Ukulele Video of the Year 2011: A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade – Oracao

Feb 22, 2012 No Comments by Woodshed

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Votes have been cast, hanging chads have been assessed, last year’s winner has been dethroned and cast to the wolves, and the winner of Ukulele Video of the Year 2011 is A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade’s Oração. With more views than all the others on the list put together, a joyous video and a [...]

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Ukulele Video of the Year 2011: Vote

Feb 06, 2012 No Comments by Woodshed

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The nominees are in and here’s the final list of contenders: Poll Closed You can only vote once and polling closes at midnight Hawaii time on 13th February. I’d encourage you to watch any you’re not familiar with but other than that, go wild. Vote for whoever you like for whatever reason you like (who [...]

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Ukulele Video of the Year 2011: Nominations

Jan 28, 2012 No Comments by Woodshed

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The real purpose of the vote: to get people watching excellent musicians. So if there’s a video you think has been cruelly overlooked, be sure to give it a nomination because I’ll be watching anything I missed first time round. For the first stage, everyone gets to nominate up to 5 videos – leave them [...]

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Uke for Xmas? Read This!

Dec 22, 2011 No Comments by Woodshed

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When I got my first ukulele, I was completely clueless. This was in those dark, long forgotten days before the internet had been discovered. I didn’t even realise that the strings weren’t supposed to go thickest to thinnest and restrung it. So, to save you from the social disgrace I experienced, I’ve put together a [...]

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How to Play Christmas Ukulele 2nd Edition

Dec 08, 2011 No Comments

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I’ve just put out the 2nd edition of How to Play Christmas Ukulele. The main points of feedback I got from the first edition were: – Make the arrangements easier. – Make the tabs bigger. – Do videos. So that’s what I’ve done. I’ve made the full arrangements simpler. There’s less fancy fingerpicking – they’re [...]

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Christmas Tabs and Chords

Dec 07, 2011 No Comments

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If you’re looking for some Christmas tunes to get your teeth into, have a go of these: Chords 12 Days of Christmas A Christmas Duel – The Hives and Cyndi Lauper All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey Christmas for Cowboys – John Denver/Ballard C Boyd Cold Outside – Julia Nunes & [...]

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Uke Hunt Podcast #11: Emily Scott

Nov 23, 2011 No Comments

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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download Podcast #11 Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe via RSS Uke Hunt Podcast #11 in your face. After a bit of break, the podcast is back in style this month. It features an incredible session from Emily Scott. I don’t want to play favourites with all the people who’ve taken the time [...]

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Uke Hunt’s 1,500th Post

Sep 14, 2011 No Comments

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Yes, this is post number 1,500. And it’s just a mish-mash of stuff that reaching that milestone brought to mind. If you’ve got any thoughts on any of these, leave a comment or send an email. I’d like to know what you think and which direction you’d like to see things go over the next [...]

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Uke Hunt Podcast #10

Aug 31, 2011 No Comments

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Podcast Powered By Podbean Download Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe via RSS Podcast #10 in your face. The Uke Hunt podcast hits double figures and Bossarocker takes time off from being the saviour of North Manchester FM to bring you a bunch of tracks from familiar acts like Craig Robertson, Uke’s Not Dead and David Leach; [...]

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Ukulele for Dummies: Out Now in USA

Aug 10, 2011 No Comments

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The book I wrote, Ukulele for Dummies is out now in the US and in Canada. You can find full details of what’s in the book here but if you’ve got any questions, ask away in the comments or by email. It’s been out in the UK for just over a month and has been [...]

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