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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

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we would like to wish you all a very Happy and Safe Christmas.
keep strumming, keep smiling and we’ll be back on board with all classes from Monday 14th January

Monday Lake Munmorah 14th January
Tuesday 15th January Woy Woy (it was the 8th)
Wednesday 16th January Erina – Macron Music
Thursday 17th January Erina and Club Tuggerah.

cheers and keep safe
x

Christmas at Jacks Bar and our New CD

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Hello all , we had a fabulous night at Jacks Bar  Erina the last Thursday of the month. We celebrated Christmas in true ukulele style.  The award for the best dressed was very hard and congratulations to Mary Jo and the Four Pleasant Pluckers on their great outfits.

The talent is getting better and if you are reading this and have not been to one of our open ukulele nights then you are missing something special. A great night out!

More to come next year the next open ukulele night is Thursday January 31st the theme is yet to be confirmed but I have a few crazy ideas.

We are winding down for the year with last classes for all areas next week and the last class of 2012 being Thursday 20th December.

First class of 2013 will be at Woy Woy on Tuesday the 8th and then all classes as normal, except for Lake Munmorah which I am pleased to announce that lake Munmorah will go ahead every Monday morning from 10.30am – 12.30 pm from Monday 14th January.

OUR SECOND CD is fabulous and orders can be taken by contacting me. How far we have travelled over the past 12 months! 42 gigs in the year 2012 and our very own ukulele festival. Hooray to you all! Great work and Job well done Central Coast Ukulele Players!

If we don’t see you next week have a terrific and happy Christmas and keep safe. Drive carefully and see you in the New Year

love to all

Liz x

Open Ukulele Night at Jacks Bar Erina

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Hello lovely ukulele folk!

wow! what a fabulous night out at Jacks Bar last night! What brilliant talent we have here right here on the Central Coast. I was so very proud of each and everyone one who gave their time to celebrate a great uke night out!

A big thank you to everyone who performed.

 the uke-a-billie troup lead by Garry Johnson, Leonie, Kim, Allison, Michelle, Kerrie, Dr Tony, David.
Jeans Jeans, Jean and Ajala
The Fab 4 strings, Vickie, Jen, Phil and Keith
Adam Johnson
Kim and Allison for their tricky and brilliant hola hoop version of happy Together
Lea and Adam Johnson
Our very own dementia Group (you will need a name) and thank you to leader Heather for putting in a last minute call to perform, heather, Geoff, Ted, Kerrie, Ray
the Fabulous awesome 5 some
the awesome five some are from our Tuggerah group
I’d like to thank Ivan, Deb, Brian, Trevor and Carol for your performance and your beautiful harmonies!
Brian Caldwell for ‘ukeaholic’
Rosie, Glenn and little Emma
The Berowra Bugs for their great performance and for travelling up to the coast to attend
The djembe players (fantastic after only one lesson)
our leaders for the night Ajala, Adam, Lea and Rosie
solo performances from Hillary and Dallas
 Alan Hargreaves
and the Bar Boy – Mitch for his rendition of ‘I wanna be Like You’
Kerrie for being involved in everything!!! great work Kerrie!
The Central Coast Ukulele Club for their community performances
To Rob thank you for all your support and all your hard work in setting up the PA, and performances and putting up with hyper me!
 
If I have left any one out please let me know as I have to thank so many.

Open Uke night at Jacks Bar/Tavern this Thursday 30th August

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All welcome to our open uke night at Jacks Bar/Tavern this Thursday evening 30th August from 6-8.
Cnr Ilya and Karalta Road, Erina.
All welcome, all ages, all levels, join us in a great night of music.
Free entry. $14 dinner deals.
Sing, play perform – celebrate with us a yummy ukulele cake!! Raffles and a great night out.

Updates and news

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UPDATES

Hello everyone! mmmmm spring feels likes it’s in the air!

OPEN UKULELE NIGHT JACKS BAR ERINA FREE ENTRY AUGUST 30th 2012. Everyone welcome.

The last open ukulele night was so much fun. The next open ukulele night is August 30th at
Jacks Bar Erina from 6-10pm.
Raffles and a set list competition will be in place for the evening. Jane from Macron Music Tuggerah making us a ukulele cake to celebrate all birthdays in August and for those who we missed out on. Bring along your partners, family and friends, kids welcome. Share your talent with us on the night. We’re hoping the ‘4 strings’ will make another appearance, the ‘Ukcandoit’s’, the ‘Dementia group’, ‘Adam and friends’ , ‘djembe drum’ and our sing and play along all together sessions. The ‘Bar Boys’ from Jacks will be singing ‘I wanna Be Like You’ so practise that song so they can sing along to us. Please let me know if you have a song or three you would like to perform on the night so we can slot you in. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience performing, no pressure, surrounded by friends, or just come on down and have a brilliant night. We could also use this as a rehearsal for up coming festivals.

Hope you are all recovering from all sicknesses and operations and are back on track.
I tell you now this is the first time I can breathe in about 3 weeks!!
Thank you for all your birthday wishes and condolences.. such a bitter sweet time of late.

Ok so here’s what’s been happening and what’s coming up next.

Beginners workshop was successful – what a lovely group of folk.. next beginners workshop Saturday 8th September from 11-1pm

Rob’s djembe class was terrific, fantastic group of lovely folk and didn’t they play well! I was very impressed.

The next Rob’s djember class is Saturday September 1st.
the class will be from 11-1pm
( first day of spring and a day before fathers day – perhaps an idea for fathers day?)

Both beginners and class and next djembe class will be at Niagara Park Rehearsal Room, Washington Ave, Niagara park. We will be looking at Erina soon if that is an easy for people to access.

Our Dementia unit are looking for volunteers please email me and I will pass on to Heather if interested.
Gary and a small group are performing at Camp Breakaway on Wednesday 23rd, please let me know if you are interested.

September 15th – Kincumber festival

September 16th – BUG’s (Berows and Hornsby ukulele group celebrating their 1st birthday) we have been asked to perform as top billing for the afternoon – Berowra Tavern 3-6, Berowra.

September 23rd – Illawarra Strum Festival – The bus is booked – we will be taking final numbers this week so please let us know if you’re on the bus!!! – should be a fun day.

October 28 – Newcastle ukulele Festival
October 28 – Woytopia Festival YEP THE SAME DAY

October, November – recording our second album and Christmas songs

December 9th – Central Coast Christmas Spectacular in front of a huge crowd. Whoo hoo.

So let’s start strumming away and dust off those vocal chords and we’ll be on fire real soon!!

Our Club T-Shirts have been ordered and there is a delay with the medium size as they were out of stock, should not be too long now.

Jackets look good and are very nice quality. We’ll be taking orders for them this week too.

love to you all
Liz x

Jacks Bar/Tavern ErinaLast Thursday of the Month

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Hello everyone,
 
Wow!! Thank you  all those club members who attended our first ‘open uke’ night at Jacks Bar Erina. What can I say…..  we have some very talented singers and musicians amongst us.
 
The four Strings (from Erina group) were awesome, two really great songs and the crowd loved them, can’t wait to hear what they have planned for us next time.
 
Ivan and Deb (from Tuggerah) sang a beautiful Duet together and the entire tavern sang along with them (gives me goosebumps) only to be joined on stage with brother
Brian and these two brothers sure do know how to play and sing amazing harmonies together, just delightful. Then Trevor and Carol (Tuggerah) joined them for a beautiful rendition on ‘Today’ by John denver and other beautiful songs
The talent kept coming..
Young Joe (from Woy Woy) Sang three beautiful songs and again everyone in the Tavern sang along with him and much to Joe’s reluctance we persuaded him to sing ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ it was just awesome! Thank you Joe, we loved it!
 
Speaking of awesome then we had young Adam Johnson sing an entire set for us and, yes, he was awesome, just ask him! And his gorgeous wife Lea came and joined him for a song or two, so lovely to hear you both sing together.
 
Rosie and Glenn performed as ‘Two or More’ with 3 beautiful songs then joined by Adam and Lea and some d’jembe players for some classic rock songs.
 
We had some incredible d’jembe playing and you never have heard a rendition of Blame it On The Bossa Nova, like we did on Thursday night. The place was jumping!
 
So wonderful to see David and Delycia up dancing and others taking their lead and joining in.
 
Brian from Kemspey came down and joined us for a great evening and even got up and sang some songs and his song ‘Home Home for the Aged’ (to the tune of home on the range)  was a real hit! Thanks Brian.
 
To top the night off the ‘WoW’ girls joined us and sang in harmonies some great classic like Chapel of Love and Stand by Me!
 
And no to forget our group playing and singing…. I was so proud of you all… from where I was standing hearing you all play together and sing was amazing, even the bar staff joined in and those punters who happened to pop in were all singing along! The boys behind the bar are going to sing for us next time, whhooo hooo!!
 
Dancing, singing, ukulele playing and lots of laughter. You cannot capture this on camera though some pics are attached. The rest will be on our website.  It was a great night and we’ll look forward the the last Thursday in August where we get to do it all over again. Rosie is going to bring her pipes and I hope Frank brings is Bodhran drum.
 
Thank you again to everyone who made the effort and I hope you all had a great night out!
 
Classes as normal this week.
 
 
D’jembe classes starting soon – watch this space.
 
Chat soon
Keep warm
and have a beautiful day
 
Liz x

Newsletter July

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hello lovers of ukulele

I’m starting this letter a little late in the month due to so many things going on around me, so please excuse me.

Our night with Matt Dahlberg was fantastic and very inspiring and a great turn out. Plenty of food, champagne and good company, such a top night.

We performed at Woy Woy markets last Sunday 8th July to a great crowd and also had the pleasure of our local independent member and environmentalist Jake Cassar join us for a song. What a great voice that man has.  Beautiful day, again, great company and what a troupe, you all played so well!

Next on the agenda is a few community performances for our local hostels and nursing homes next week. Nareen gardens Bateau Bay, Woy Woy, Point Clare and Henry Kendal Village Wyoming. If you are interested in performing these nursing homes please contact Heather at Woy Woy.

All Welcome

We hope you can make it to our Big night out and open mic night at Jacks bar Thursday 26th July and every last Thursday of the month.

Free entry, bring along your voice, your smile and your ukulele, your friends I will have a spare if you forget.

We’ll set up the PA, Jacks will provide discount supper and the venue and we’ll do the rest!!! Family, friends, kids, all welcome to our super uke night at Jacks Bar  Karalta Road Erina. Come  and see what the fuss is all about and I promise you will be hooked!

I have a meeting next week re next our next ukulele festival so watch this space.

All classes back to normal and the fun and work begins again for the following dates.

 Dates to keep in your diary

September 23 – Illawarra Spring Strum – Ukulele Spring celebration. We have  been formally invited to attend and perform at the Wollongong Spring Festival. very exciting. More information will follow soon.

October 14th,  Sunday – The Hornsby BUGS (Hornsby/Berowra Ukulele Group)  Have formally invited us to perform and celebrate  their first birthday at the  Berowra Tavern. Should be fun.

Canberra Ukulele festival around 21st October

Newcastle Festival 25-28 October

Blue Mountains ukulele festival 8-9th February

I am also adding a new page on our website to advertise the trades our members have. We have some very talented folk amoungst us who are hard working and dedicated ukulele players. I thought it may be a good idea to advertise their services and trades and in return they will offer our members discounts for those services and trades so check it out!!

 

have a great day

Liz