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

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!

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

Program and workshop information below.

See you there!

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.

The Central Coast Ukulele Festival

I am happy to say we are all set to host our Central Coast Ukulele Festival May 13, 14 and 15, 2022

Where: Wangi Wangi RSL

275 Watkins Road, Wangi Wangi

Applications are closed for performers

So if you would like to perform or have a stall, now is the time to apply

We have a wonderful festival planned and included for the first time a ukulele Poets breakfast for Sat/Sun, plus uke jams, open mic, workshops, a mobile barista cart, paella cart, merchandise stalls, luthiers and music music music from all you wonderful players and more.

A courtesy bus is available all weekend, the local bowling club has free camping for those who are self-sufficient. Accommodation is available around the Lake including Belmont and Swansea as the Ferry is now up and running to Wangi Wangi. I will send a timetable with the program once we have 100% guarantee.

Keep strumming, I look forward to seeing you in May

cheers

Liz

Coming to you very soon.

May 13, 14 and 15

Wangi Wangi RSL NSW

Aloha!

It is great to see there is light at the end of the tunnel and so happy we can get back to face to face classes.

Lake Munmorah Colongra Bay Hall Monday 1st November 10.30am -12.30pm

East Gosford Lions Club Hall – 3/8 Russel Drysdale St, East Gosford.Thursday 4th November 10am – 12pm

East Gosford and aLong Jetty starting back early next year

In the meantime we still have 3 fabulous zoom classes for you to join in.

For all enquiries please call Liz on 0412837008

Our festival is still on track for the first weekend in March with a tremendous amount of great talent ready to perform for you

More news to come soon

keep safe

cheers

Liz

May 13, 14 and 15 2022