Central Coast Ukulele Festival September 20-22, 2024 at The Diggers@The Entrance

2023 has been a huge year full of events, turns, performances, and mishaps. We did, however, have an amazing year and you have all have come leaps and bounds with our weird and wonderful performances and lessons. Thankfully we will finish the year with the highs of the past 12 months, and we look forward to spending time with you in 2024 where we shall be back bigger and better.

My apologies for not updating you all of late but that is a good sign to show how busy we have been as a ukulele collective.

Welcome to all our new players and visitors.

We are looking forward to a fantastic year ahead.

All classes are back and there are just a few minor adjustments.

Monday from January 8^th

This Is usually our Lake Munmorah class however due to the council re-doing the floor boards we are temporarily moving to Mannering Park Community Hall. Dunvegan St, Mannering Park.all.

Tuesday 9^th January

Woy Woy CWA Hall

6pm-8pm

Thursday 11^th

Lions Club Hall

East Gosford

10am-12pm

Then all classes will run weekly.

We will resume our beginners’ class at

Glengara on Monday 22nd January

From 2pm-3pm

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Happy New Year

Liz 😊 and Rob

Central Coast Ukulele Club

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Central Coast Ukulele Club

June 26, 2023

Hello and a huge Aloha to all.

I can’t believe how fast this year has flown past.

My apologies for not getting back to most of you regarding our festival this year. Yes, we are keen, yes, we have the talent, the team and the goods to get us going however, finding a venue here on the coast at this stage for such a large crowd has proved very hard.

We are working on it and have our ukulele plucking fingers in a few pies and places and it seems at this stage we will have to postpone our festival until next year around the end of March before school holidays.

We haven’t forgotten you and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the lovely emails and words of encouragement we have been getting.

Our last ukulele festival was sensational, even epic! Each great act put on such a brilliant showcase and with that so many visitors came to see. It seems we have just grown too big for our regular venues especially after the COVID period, as many places prefer not to have such a big audience.

We may take the risk again and go back to the Entrance an keep our fingers cross for brilliant weather.

I know some will be disappointed at this decision and I will say this, it will be back bigger and better. Each group I have seen play at other festival recently have been amazing. The talent is sensational, and I am biting at the bit to showcase it all again.

Stand by and watch this space.

Thank you for reaching out and I hope to see you all soon.

Cheers

Liz

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Posted on September 21, 2022 by Central Coast Ukulele Club

Thank you Newcastle festival for a great ukulele festival in September 2022.

Three great ukulele festivals this year. The Blue Mountains, The Central Coast Ukulele Festival and Newcastle Festival. The ukulele has come full circle and there are some amazing ukulele groups out there now. Great singers and players I have witnessed at all these festivals.

It’s fun, it’s community its friendships and live music.

If you have a ukulele you will be guarantee to make a new friend in no time, get off your couch and come and join us. It’s easy, minimum fuss and you can make it simple or as complicated as you like. You will have a lifetime of fun.

We have started two new beginners or refresh classes.

Lake Munmorah Monday – beginners on Monday Morning from 9.30am-10.30am

Woy Woy Tuesday from 6pm – 8pm.

Plus we have our existing all levels classes. Mondays and Thursday see class details for addresses.

Come and join us and see what all the fuss is about. Enjoy your community and make wonderful music together.

Cheers x

Thank you to our ukulele community for an amazing festival.

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Central Coast Ukulele Club

It was a brilliant success and no reported covid cases! Brilliant in every way. Thank you.

Thank you to all who supported this great event.

All photos from the three days can be found on our photographers page.

James Beggs imaging and on his facebook page

https://photos.beggs.com.au/portfolio

Here are a few pictures for you

Central Coast Ukulele Festival May 13-15 2022 at Wangi Wangi RSL

Posted on May 7, 2022 by Central Coast Ukulele Club

In less than a week the long awaited Central Coast Ukulele Festival will be here.

A brilliant fun and educational festival at Wangi Wangi RSL on the beautiful shores of Lake Macquarie.

Great music and artists, merchandise, gizmos, Pintxos and Paella, Barista Truck, luthiers Steve and Joanne, raffles and much much more.

Our workshops will host some great artists/masters

Rob Kitney – well know session drummer, audio engineer and producer (and ukulele player) – makes sense timing and Rhythm with the ukulele

Ross Ward Legendary Blues guitarist singer songwriter from the Sunday Drivers, Wards Express, The Defenders, is going to mentor you in some great Blues and on the uke too!

Glenn Ewing – Bass player and cool dude from Mirrabooka will offer practical advise, new skills that will be of instant use playing and learning bass.

Bring along your C harmonica for his Harmonica Workshop.

Miss Elm is travelling from afar to teach you how to be your own band with looping.

Adele will show and teach you the basics of the beautiful Hula. Bring along your sarong or grass skirts.

Ian Fisher Dip Op, Grad Dip Music will put the fun into the fundamentals of singing.

and there is so much more….

Check out our program and our website for further detail on this exciting event.

See you there!

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Central Coast Ukulele Festival May 13,14,15 2022 Wangi Wangi RSL, NSW

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Central Coast Ukulele Club

Two week to go until we share our Central Coast Ukulele Festival with you.

Program and workshop information below.

See you there!

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Central Coast Ukulele Festival May 13,14 and 15 Wangi Wangi RSL

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Central Coast Ukulele Club

Aloha!

We are excited and ready for you! Only 5 weeks to go for the Central Coast Ukulele Festival (CCUF) 2022. A celebration of our 10^th festival.

Over 300 performers and 50 acts will bring you a happy event only the ukulele can do. The program is ready and the workshop are set to intrigue, entertain, and educate. Our ukulele collectives come from far and wide and are ready to entertain you.

We have merchants, Luthiers, Markets, BBQ’s, Barista truck, Fabulous food and service from Wangi Wangi RSL, the club with a view!

Friday 13th starts at 3pm with Welcome to Country and then a super jam and BBQ for those wishing to start early in the beer garden overlooking the beautiful lake as we watch the sun set over Lake Macquarie we will begin our Showcase.

Friday night we Showcase of “The Ladies Of Uke” glamorous evening with a beautiful line up of Ladies to perform their songs for you. The restaurant will be open and dishing up some yummy food.

Saturday, 14 starts at 8.30am with the Bush Poets breakfast and BBQ serving up Bacon and eggs or sausage and eggs on rolls. The Barista truck will be ready for your coffee needs and an entire day of Entertainment awaits you.

Our workshops start at 9am at the Sailing Club right next to the RSL club.

Saturday night we will showcase the “Ladies of Rock”, the ever impeccable Cameron Murray and the unique style of Johnny Devilseed and Old Man Rubes.

Sunday 15th we invite you to breakfast at 8.30am with a Poets Breakfast, Coffee, and a Hula workshop to get those hips moving, and another full day of great entertainment and workshops.

So, tune up and get ready for a brilliant happy weekend!

The Central Coast Ukulele Festival is a free event and we would like to thank Wangi Wangi RSL for making this happen and all our artists who are our sponsors plus our corporate sponsors who we will name shortly.

We will be covid safe and we will follow all guidelines set out by NSW Health.

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